King Richard III’s Bones Found Under English Parking Lot

Remains Of Richard III University of LeicesterA stunning archaeological find–confirmed by DNA–to light up this winter of our discontent. Britain’s most reviled king, the short-lived monarch Richard III–last of the House of York, last of the Plantagenet dynasty, final loser of the Wars of the Roses, and benefactor of Cambridge University–has finally been identified. He lay buried beneath a nondescript English parking lot until September, when the remains were exhumed. Today, researchers at Leicester U…

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Family’s Pet Tortoise Found Alive, After 30 Years, In Locked Storeroom

Lost/Found Red-Footed Tortoise The Telegraph The Almeidas’ story starts out a lot like the usual pet-disappearance saga: Someone left the front door open, and Manuela, the family tortoise, went missing. We can probably guess what happened next: a long, fruitless search, tears shed, possible fates guessed at, implausible but comforting legends born and clung to and perhaps retold for decades… But that’s not where this tortoise’s story ends. According to The Telegraph, this tortoise has been found, after…

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Found in the Parking Lot: F1 Cars Are Cool and All, but Here’s What Fans Drove to the Track [2012 F1 U.S. Grand Prix]

A key cog in the Formula 1 traveling circus is the legion of rich folks that pour money into the sport and its ancillary activities. They must, of course, get to the race and parties somehow, and we ain’t talking about no rental Versa. Every race location is inundated with piles of exotic hardware, and Austin, Texas, is no different, with the parking lots at the Circuit of the Americas having no shortage of high-end metal to complement the F1 cars tearing up the track. But with F1’s large demographi…

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Found in the Parking Lot: F1 Cars Are Cool and All, but Here’s What Fans Drove to the Track [2012 F1 U.S. Grand Prix]

A key cog in the Formula 1 traveling circus is the legion of rich folks that pour money into the sport and its ancillary activities. They must, of course, get to the race and parties somehow, and we ain’t talking about no rental Versa. Every race location is inundated with piles of exotic hardware, and Austin, Texas, is no different, with the parking lots at the Circuit of the Americas having no shortage of high-end metal to complement the F1 cars tearing up the track. But with F1’s large demographi…

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Found in the Parking Lot: F1 Cars Are Cool and All, but Here’s What Fans Drove to the Track [2012 F1 U.S. Grand Prix]

A key cog in the Formula 1 traveling circus is the legion of rich folks that pour money into the sport and its ancillary activities. They must, of course, get to the race and parties somehow, and we ain’t talking about no rental Versa. Every race location is inundated with piles of exotic hardware, and Austin, Texas, is no different, with the parking lots at the Circuit of the Americas having no shortage of high-end metal to complement the F1 cars tearing up the track. But with F1’s large demographi…

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A cheap way to reduce driver distraction found by study

As in-car displays house more information and controls, there is concern at how to make the screens less distracting while driving. Now a new study has found that even small changes in typeface style can help reduce the visual load of a driver by as much as 10 percent.

The study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab, the New England University Transportation Center, and Monotype Imaging Holdings (a provider of typefaces to consumer devices and applications) used eye-track…

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British Classics Found in Coastal New Hampshire

What state has the shortest coastline of any in the US? That would be New Hampshire, with a tiny 13 mile strip of exposure to the Atlantic Ocean to call its own. On a picture perfect summer evening, we snaked our way from cheesy Hampton, boasting gorgeous beaches and surf  (think New Jersey Shore, but it’s in New England) to our digs in Portsmouth, a chic small city which many affectionately call a ‘Boston in miniature’. I might disagree, as I find Portsmouth has a character unique to…

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Google Maps Gone Wrong? Street View Car Found Wrecked in India

It's not every day that you stumble upon an abandoned Google StreetView Camera Car in the middle of nowhere. And since you are bound to ask, by 'nowhere' we mean down a rocky hill in the Leh district of northern India. An unidentified man who sounds like he has an American or a Canadian accent captured a film of the aftermath. The video shows the high standing camera-equipped Opel Astra hatchback (previous generation) facing down the hill with its front smashed up on the rocks. Read more »…

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In Simulation, Moon Dust Found to Be Toxic to Humans

Apollo 16 LM Orion Wikimedia Commons Because we don’t spend a large chunk of time up there, we haven’t done too much research on the long-term health effects of living on the moon. But a paper titled “Toxicity of Lunar Dust,” covering several aspects of the effects of moon dust on the human body, offers some insight: the moon is basically trying to kill you. Not actively, of course, but there are a lot of reasons to avoid the stuff (and no, a spacesuit isn’t going to save you). The big problem is inhala…

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Four-Links – Rare Road Runner found, Tini Home finished, one-off Excalibur, Lockhart book coming

* Ryan Brutt’s travels have allowed him to see quite a number of rare cars, but perhaps none as rare as the one-of-one 440 Six Barrel 1972 Plymouth Road Runner he came across recently.

* We’ve been following Cool McCool’s vintage travel trailer restoration over the last few weeks and dig the (mostly) finished product.

* A new batch of photos over at Charles Beesley’s motor life.blog is always reason to celebrate, but we particularly enjoyed seeing the one-off big-block mid-engi…

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