Tue. 02/01 - 2,500 Subway Cars Under the Sea
The New York City subway cars taking on a second job on the ocean floor. Plus, a successful drone created using Leonardo da Vinci’s aerial screw design. And crows in Sweden are being trained to pick up litter. Sponsors: Munk Pack, Use code KRH at ...
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The New York City subway cars taking on a second job on the ocean floor. Plus, a successful drone created using Leonardo da Vinci’s aerial screw design. And crows in Sweden are being trained to pick up litter.
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Links:
- Sinking 1,000 NYC subway cars in the Atlantic to create a reef didn't (Fast Company)
- Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars (NY Times, 2008)
- New York's Subway Lives On in the Atlantic Ocean as Artificial Reefs (PBS Thirteen)
- Bye bye Brightliners: MTA's oldest subway cars bid farewell on final run after almost 58 years (amNewYork)
- More Than 2,500 New York City Subway Cars Are Now Artificial Underwater Reefs. See This Artist’s Remarkable Photos of Them Here (artnet)
- Photographing the New York City Subway Cars That Retired as Artificial Reefs (Atlas Obscura)
- New York City's newest oyster bed is 50,000 mollusks and 5,000 old public school toilets (Washington Post)
- NY State Drops Two More Vessels, Including "Chickadee" The Tugboat, Into Waters For Artificial Reefing (Gothamist)
- MTA Redbird Train Scrapping off Shark River Reef New Jersey (YouTube)
- This drone flies using da Vinci's 530-year-old helicopter design (CNET)
- A New Quadcopter Is Based on da Vinci's 530-Year-Old Helicopter Model (Interesting Engineering)
- Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts (The Guardian)
- Crows may soon be Sweden's newest litter pickers (The Local Sweden)
- Crows trained to collect cigarette butts on the street (Boing Boing)
- Latest Attraction at French Theme Park: Crows That Pick Up Trash (NY Times)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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