Father with Parkinson’s arrested as he watched the Olympic cycling race because he “failed to smile or look like he was enjoying himself”

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A father with Parkinson’s disease was arrested as he watched the Olympic cycling road race because he ‘failed to smile or look like he was enjoying himself’. Mark Worsfold, a martial arts trainer and former soldier, claims that he was thrown to the floor and handcuffed just as cyclists passed by. His worried wife Nicola [...]

“Flying carpet” of conductive plastic takes flight

“Flying carpet” of conductive plastic takes flight

Two frequencies of cycling show the sheet “rippling” in a display of small propulsive force A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University. The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by “ripple power”; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to [...]