Wed. 09/01 - Flying EVs, Bedroom Pop, & Murder Hornets 2: Venomous Boogaloo

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Would you take a flying rideshare taxi? NASA is betting on it. Plus, murder hornets are back and badder than ever. And the growing genre of “bedroom pop,” which isn’t what it maybe sounds like. Sponsor: Raycon, Get 15% off at buyraycon.com/kottke Links: NASA is testing electric air taxis with Joby Aviation (The Verge) Your air taxi has arrived: Why Joby could be the first commercial eVTOL (CNBC, Youtube) A Special Message from our CEO and Founder, JoeBen Bevirt (Joby Aviation, YouTube) NASA Begins Air Taxi Flight Testing with Joby (NASA) 'Murder Hornets': Nest of 1,500 eradicated in the US (BBC) Department of Agriculture Officials in Washington State Attacked While Trying to Remove Murder Hornet Nest (Inside Edition) Just How Dangerous Is the ‘Murder Hornet’? (Scientific American) What's bedroom pop? How an online DIY movement created a musical genre (NBC News) Don’t Call it Bedroom Pop: The New Wave of DIY (Complex) Elliot Page Is On a "Lo-Fi Bedroom Pop Adventure,” Drops Debut EP (them.) Mark and Elliot EP (Mark and Elliot, Bandcamp) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Wednesday, September 1st, 2021.
0:40.4	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.6	Would you take a flying ride chair taxi?
0:46.3	NASA is betting on it.
0:48.0	Plus, murder hornets are back and badder than ever.
0:51.8	And the growing genre of bedroom pop, which isn't what it maybe sounds like.
0:57.9	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:03.6	NASA has officially started flight tests with the dark horse of air taxis Joby Aviation,
1:10.6	marking the agency's first ever test with
1:13.0	an electric vehicle takeoff and landing aircraft, or EVTOL. Now, if you haven't heard of Joby Aviation,
1:19.7	don't worry, they've gone under the radar for a while, pretty much until earlier this year
1:24.0	when they went public. You might have heard of Joby Tripods, though. They are the
1:29.0	same people. Jobin Bivert, the founder of Joby Aviation, also invented the Gorilla Pod. But anyways,
1:36.4	Joby Aviation has been quietly toiling away for over a decade completing more than 1,000 test
1:42.3	flights to meet the requirements outlined by the FAA and other
1:45.7	global aviation regulators.
1:47.8	They haven't officially been certified yet, but working with NASA's advanced air mobility campaign is a step
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