France Is Letting 14-Year-Olds Drive This Tiny Electric Car

BEING 14 SUCKS. You’re a freshman in high school, which puts you at the bottom of the social food chain. The opposite sex is endlessly confusing, you need to beg your parents and older siblings for rides, and (in the US at least) you’re half a lifetime away from the legal drinking age. Unless, that is, you live in France. Then you just need to beg your parents to buy you aRenault Twizy, a $7,600 “car” that 14-year-olds can now legally drive.

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Genius app instantly solves math problems by using a phone’s camera

I’ve seen the future and it is math less and it is awesome and it is this PhotoMath app that solves math problems just by pointing your phone’s camera at them. It’s like a cross between a text reading camera, a supremely sophisticated calculator and well, the future. Point and solve and never do math again.

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This human hamster wheel is like its own personal roller coaster

It must be terribly dizzying to be on the never ending cycle of a human hamster wheel but boy does this guy make it look fun. In fact, it looks like he’s moving inside his very own roller coaster. Or at the very least, it looks like he has combined every fun thing on a playground in one fun ride.

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WOOLLY MAMMOTH DNA SUCCESSFULLY SPLICED INTO ELEPHANT CELLS

A group of researchers are getting closer to bringing the extinct woolly mammoth back to life. Geneticist George Church’s lab at Harvard University successfully copied genes from frozen woolly mammoths and pasted them into the genome of an Asian elephant.

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