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Henry Ford's descendants own 40% of voting rights in the motor company he founded in 1903, and the family are still involved in the running of the automaker, including Henry Ford's great-grandson William Clay Ford Jr., the company's executive chairman, and great-great-grandson Henry Ford III, who is global marketing manager for Ford Performance. |
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Coconut Cheerios Are Officially Hitting Shelves Next Month |
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I got a kick out of this statement when talking about the restoration: "...... insuring that the original bodywork was preserved throughout the restoration." Guessing that means the "original" body work that was replaced after the 1963 wreck. In his defense, I believe that only ONE of the original 36 cars still wears ALL of the original hand made alloy panels. They were race cars after all. There is at least one car that carries ZERO original exterior sheet metal. There is not one die stamped piece of metal on these cars. You can line up three or four and see minor differences, including the hood slope from one to another. |
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Panther Pink was no longer an RPO extra cost color in 1971. It became a special order paint color. |
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Probably goes without saying that this is one of those cars I would love to have - but - a bit out of my price range. K |
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Scientists are using mosquitoes’ sneaky biting ability to make needles less painful for humans. Researchers and engineers at Kansai University in Japan took cues from the mosquito’s needle-like mouth (called its proboscis) to design a minimally invasive, three-pronged needle. The needle also vibrates slightly at about 15 hz., mimicking a real bite that eases the needle into the skin, lessening pain. Tests have proved that the needle worked flawlessly. |
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Fireflies help make LED light bulbs more efficient. The bugs' lanterns have microstructures, or asymmetrical microscopic projections, that release light. Researchers from Penn State found that adding microstructures to the surface of LEDs, which typically have symmetrical projections, allows more light to escape, making them more efficient and improving light extraction by 90 percent. |
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These underwater mollusks have inspired scientists to make one of the strongest adhesives on the market. Researchers have cracked how mussels attach to wet surfaces, and have replicated it into an adhesive for commercial use. They created a biomimetic polymer model that contains proteins with the amino acid DOPA, which provides the glue’s adhesion. In a study published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, scientists found that the glue performed 10 times better than other commercial adhesives when used to bond polished aluminum. |
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Ever wonder how woodpeckers are able to absolutely pound the hell out of tree trunks all day long and somehow continue functioning? It’s because their skulls have built-in shock absorbers, and scientists are stealing their natural design for airplane black boxes. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, used video and CT scans of woodpeckers to discover that their skulls are designed with four structures that absorb mechanical shock, and their beaks also have an area filled with a spongy and cerebrospinal fluid that work to inhibit vibration and concussions. The scientists used this to create more shock-resistant flight recorders, also known as black boxes. |
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Camels live in the driest climates on earth, and yet they’re somehow able to function with limited water resources. So scientists have taken a hint. Camels conserve water by cooling exhaled air during the night, extracting water vapor from the exhaled air, and absorbing and holding onto water molecules from the surrounding air. Researchers in the Sahara Desert are using the same technique to remove salt from saltwater to irrigate plants by using cool ground water to evaporate warm sea water, which is then condensed in a salt-free form. |
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Hummingbirds have the ability to fly backwards and hover in place, which makes them similar to helicopters. Researchers from Stanford University and Wageningen University published a study after tracking the torque from wings of 12 different species of hummingbirds and found that the birds’ ratio of their wing’s length to their width determined their ability to sustain hovering power. Specifically, hummingbirds with a larger aspect ratio (3.5 to 4.0 for hummingbirds) used less power. Engineers hope to use this information in helicopter design. |
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Giraffes are some of the tallest animals on Earth, which means their blood has a lot of area to circulate. Scientists have used their bodies to help humans with treatment for venous leg ulcers with compression therapy. |
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Scientists found that Arctic Cod have developed an evolutionary mechanism to keep them from freezing in the icy waters they inhabit. Cod keep from freezing because they have actual antifreeze proteins (literally called antifreeze glycoprotein) that circulates in their blood to keep it in liquid form, and not ice. This led researchers at Warwick University to create a new polymer to preserve blood called Polyvinyl alcohol that acts like antifreeze and prevents freezing, which can kill cells. |
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Scientists at MIT have mimicked otter fur in a study published in the journal Physical Review Fluids. They created fur-like, rubbery pelts that use the same mechanism that otters use to keep warm. They trap air between individual hairs when in water, which traps warm pockets of air in their dense fur. All the research will be used for a new type of diving wet suit. |
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Counterfeit money is being busted thanks to butterflies. A project called NOtES, from researchers at Simon Fraser University, studied butterfly wings and their iridescence of the Costa Rican morpho butterfly. They created a technology using nanoscale light-interfering structures to create an anti-counterfeiting stamp. It’s more difficult to crack than a hologram and can be “printed” not only on bank notes, but on a whole range of other objects, too. |
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Spider webs are practically everywhere in nature where birds exist. But scientists noticed webs go unharmed from birds in flight, while many windows (unfortunately) do not. So scientists from the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute looked to Orb weaver spiders’ webs, which build their webs with ultraviolet (UV) silk. They found that it has reflective properties that protect the web. This led to the invention of the ORNILUX® Bird Protection Glass, which has a UV-reflective coating that mimics the ultraviolet thread patterns found in Orb spider webs. |
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The albatross is a majestic, ocean-faring bird that truly soars, meaning it rarely flaps its wings to fly. Instead, it uses the wind to fly more than 600 miles a day. Researchers at MIT are using this flight design to develop drones. They’re hoping to create a fixed-wing, wind-propelled drone that would be able to fly overseas without stopping. |
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Sharks glide through the ocean thanks to their silky smooth skin, which has influenced the U.S. Navy to look to the skin as a way to prevent microorganisms (like barnacles) from sticking to the surface of their ships. Shark skin is covered with tiny V-shape scales called dermal denticles, which help sharks fend-off micro organisms. The Navy has since developed a material, known as Sharklet, based on this skin pattern to help inhibit marine growth on ships. It optimizes vessel performance and reduces fuel costs. (Biofilm can add up to 20 percent drag and barnacles over 60 percent, according to a press release.) |
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The sound of cicadas is hard to miss in the summer. And while they may seem like relatively pointless bugs, they hold the keys to antimicrobial benefits. Researchers have discovered that the veined wings of the Clanger cicada destroy bacteria on contact—the first known example of a natural biomaterial to do it. The wing structure itself does the destroying by tearing apart the bacteria. The wings have nanoscale-sized pillars that trap and slowly kill bacteria by pulling their cells apart. Researchers hope to mimic these on surfaces in public places. |
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These lizards may hold the key to improving vision aids for humans. They’re one of the few animals that can see color at night, and their eyesight is also 350 times more sensitive than humans’. Researchers from Lund University found that geckos only have a higher density of cones in their retina, which means they can detect more specific light wavelengths. Researchers are hopeful this can improve camera lenses as well as the development of multifocal contact lenses in the future. |
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