Technology

Japanese tour firm offers virtual reality holidays – with a first-class seat

Source: The Guardian

Thanks to virtual reality, First Airlines passengers sightsee destinations around the world without ever leaving the ground.

Journey to Mars

Source: NASA

Like any quest, the journey to Mars will require careful planning and many intermediate steps. Check out this timeline of stages in the process of making humans independent from our home planet.

7 Technologies That Are Revolutionizing Ocean Exploration

Source: Mental Floss

Humans have mapped a larger percentage of the surface of Mars than Earth’s seafloor. These 7 technologies are looking to change that.

Selfie face distortion is driving people to get nose jobs

Source: Vox

When our view is distorted, we don’t perceive things as they really are. Find out why some people are making an extreme and permanent choice based on bad information.

With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

Source: The Conversation

Even a change that’s generally good can have negative consequences.

Seat Belts: Get the Facts

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

It’s likely that when your grandparents were your age, they rode in a car without buckling a seat belt first. Find out how effective seat belts are at saving lives and why some people don’t use them, even today.

How smart cities can create their own poetry – tech podcast

Source: The Guardian

In this podcast, the creator of an art installation in Manchester, England, discusses how she used real-time data that informed poems written by A.I. and were displayed around the city.