#stefan klein

[guy60660]

Stefan Klein

[oldschoolsciencefiction]

Convertible 'flying car' takes to the sky

The prototype AirCar completes a 35-minute test flight in Slovakia.

Flying car update.

[loveandknowledge]

“Why is the universe arranged so that it produces beings like us? Religious people explain the order of the world as the work of a benevolent creator. We can't argue with them. It is impossible to prove either God's presence or His absence. But a scientist, even a religious one, is not satisfied with such an answer, and their research is the attempt to understand the world in terms of its natural causes. A scientist who invokes higher powers has given up.”

- Stefan Klein, ‘On the Edge of Infinity’

[dipnotski]

Stefan Klein – Dünyayı Nasıl Değiştirdik? (2022)

Yaratıcı düşüncenin tarihi uzun; ilk taş aletlerden, bugünün vazgeçilmezi akıllı telefonlara dek uzanıyor. Alet, yontu, resim, yazı, yapı, aygıt… Zihin her adımda dünyayı değiştiriyor, yeniden inşa ediyor. Ama bu tek yönlü değil: Dünya algılarımızı, algılarımız da dünyayı dönüştürüyor. Peki, bunu nasıl yapıyor? Cro-Magnon ressamlardan Leonardo da Vinci’ye, Arşimet’ten AlphaZero’ya hep aynı şeye…

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[sinapsimagazine]

STEFAN KLEIN A GENOVA. IL TEMPO: LA SOSTANZA DI CUI È FATTA LA VITA . 

STEFAN KLEIN A GENOVA. IL TEMPO: LA SOSTANZA DI CUI È FATTA LA VITA .

PER “I DIALOGHI SULLA RAPPRESENTAZIONE/IL TEMPO. DAL TRAPASSATO REMOTO AL FUTURO (SEMPLICE)” PROGETTO IDEATO E DIRETTO DA SERGIO MAIFREDI PER TEATRO PUBBLICO LIGURE.   La XV edizione di “Dialoghi sulla rappresentazione” dedicata a “Il tempo. Dal trapassato remoto al futuro semplice”, progetto ideato e diretto da Sergio Maifredi per Teatro Pubblico Ligure, prosegue giovedì 22 settembre alle 17,30…

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[dflux-videos]

The World's First Flying Car Ever | AirCar

AirCar is a dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle, successfully completed its 35-minute flight from the international airport in Nitra to the international airport ...

[singeratlarge]

FRIDAY FLASHBACK—This week’s Wayback Machine episode is prompted by Monday’s news flash about a flying car, completing a first-ever test flight between airports in Slovakia, taking to the skies and landing in 35 minutes. According to company that created it, Klein Vision, the flying car completed its 142nd successful landing. With a click of a button, the aircraft turned into a sports car in under 3 minutes – and it was driven by its inventor, Professor Stefan Klein. Rewind to 1999 when (then) high school students in the band Bad Light Project asked a perfectly legitimate question in song,:“So It’s the Year 2000 Where’s My Flying Car?”—recalling T-Bone Burnett’s lyric, “Science fiction and nostalgia have become the same” + devices in the original “Star Trek” TV series are now common, but we still can’t beam up. I produced and played on BLP’s debut album, which got some airplay and media buzz. The band was the brainchild of frontman Ron Fleeger, who was workin’ hard as a singer-songwriter. One day I was standing in Rockstation Records music store in Williamsport PA, watching teenage girls eagerly buy up Ron’s tapes. I thought, “That guy must be on to something.” Over the years I watched Ron and his music morph through eclectic styles (from metal to Celtic-tinged alt-folk), and I’m glad to report he’s still at it…and his wish may come true, just 20 years later…

https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/so-its-the-year-2000-wheres-my-flying-car

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[nicolaslibrary]

We Are All Stardust: scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives, and what they still want to know - Stefan Klein

Synopsis:

Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries—and lives. How does Jane Goodall’s relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of his work on the role of chance in history? What does driving a sports car have to do with Steven Weinberg’s quest for the “theory of everything”? Physicist and journalist Stefan Klein’s intimate conversations with nineteen of the world’s best-known scientists (including three Nobel Laureates) let us listen in as they talk about their paradigm-changing work—and how it is deeply rooted in their daily lives. • Cosmologist Martin Rees on the beginning and end of the world • Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on egoism and selflessness • Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness • Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn on aging • Philosopher Peter Singer on morality • Physician and social scientist Nicholas Christakis on human relationships • Biochemist Craig Venter on the human genome • Chemist and poet Roald Hoffmann on beauty