One of the most talked about things this week was a strange video of a man who appeared to have a real life jet-powered hoverboard. The video was published by Zapata Racing, which has made water-powered versions of these flying machines for a few years now . The difference is that those are always tethered to some kind of personal watercraft. This new "Flyboard Air," as CEO Franky Zapata calls it, is something totally different. The video went viral on Monday, and it polarized the internet. People thought it was either the coolest thing ever invented , or that it was a massive hoax . Even optimistic parties, like myself, were skeptical . Maybe we all still feel a little burned by Tony Hawk and FunnyorDie, or maybe we were just being careful — after all, the video was suspiciously edited, there were very few details, and it just looked a little fake. Over the week, more videos of the flight(s) surfaced, and it appeared to be the real deal. This morning, thou...
Aristotle ( / ˈ æ r ɪ ˌ s t ɒ t əl / ; [1] Greek : Ἀριστοτέλης , pronounced [aristotélɛːs] , Aristotélēs ; 384–322 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira , Chalkidice , on the northern periphery of Classical Greece . His father, Nicomachus , died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. [3] At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens [4] and remained there until the age of thirty-seven ( c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics , biology , zoology , metaphysics , logic , ethics, aesthetics , poetry , theater, music, rhetoric , linguistics , politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy . Shortly after Plato died, Aristo...
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