ooooh, shiiny

Here, this is very cool. Hopefully it'll work once they actually build the prototype. I haven't been able to get any information on energy consumption from a site I consider sound; I found one source that said it was less than half the energy need of airlines of comparable capacity airliners, but it also called it a lighter-than-air vessel, which it apparently isn't. (It's buoyant, but only 2/3 of the carrying weight is lifted by the gas envelopes.) I like very much that its propulsion is electric.

after a break from cranky

Today's paper: "Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials: A means for exploring the neurocognition of second-language processing." A lot of this made it into that book chapter I'd read previously, so I was able to breeze through the first 15 pages or so, but then they got on to some interesting discussion about a pilot study they started using Finnish instead of French as a second language.