All posts tagged: Wooden

Wheel-E Podcast: Wooden e-bikes, DJI motors, new laws, more

Wheel-E Podcast: Wooden e-bikes, DJI motors, new laws, more

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This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Esel, Specialized, and Radio Flyer, a pair of new drives from Avinox, new e-bike bills in the works, Royal Enfield’s Flying Flea motorcycle launches, and more. The Wheel-E podcast returns every two weeks on Electrek’s YouTube channel, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Advertisement – scroll for more content Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS We also have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming. Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during …

Esel launches eye-catching wooden e-bike designed for urban commuters with style

Esel launches eye-catching wooden e-bike designed for urban commuters with style

Published by skeptic

There are plenty of e-bikes that focus on performance. Plenty that focus on tech. And plenty that lean into affordability. But every now and then, a bike comes along that feels more like a piece of art than a machine. That’s exactly what Austrian bike maker esel is going for with its newly launched eUrban electric bike, a striking wooden-framed e-bike that blends natural materials with modern electric performance. And after seeing so many cookie-cutter, nearly identical e-bikes come across my desk over the years, it’s refreshing to see something so unique. Advertisement – scroll for more content Formerly known as My Esel, the company is using this launch as part of a broader rebrand, simplifying its name to just “esel” and leaning into a new identity built around the concept of “Ride your nature.”  And that philosophy shows up most clearly in the frame. Unlike traditional aluminum or carbon fiber bikes, esel builds its frames from a specially developed wood composite. Sure, it’s eye-catching and beautiful (if you’re into wood, which luckily for me, …

A Wooden Holztrompete Joins the Met’s New ‘Tristan Und Isolde’ Production

A Wooden Holztrompete Joins the Met’s New ‘Tristan Und Isolde’ Production

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 1/2 hours after the first notes of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the wings, one many in the audience likely have never heard before. A nearly 4-foot wooden horn known as a holztrompete, specially constructed to the composer’s somewhat ambiguous specifications, signals the arrival of the ship carrying Isolde and King Marke to Brittany, inspiring a mortally wounded Tristan to hang on to life for a few more moments. “Joyous,” said Billy R. Hunter Jr., the Metropolitan Opera’s principal trumpet, who plays the wooden horn from stage left. “You listen to the sound of the holztrompete and the imitation, it’s a clear difference,” said bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, who sings Marke alongside Davidsen’s Isolde and Michael Spyres’ Tristan. “It blows my mind to think that Wagner created it himself. How many humans have created an instrument? It really sounds like victory.” Wagner’s innovations went beyond the score While the Wagner Tuba was invented in the 1850s by the composer for his Ring Cycle to bridge …

Wooden Dolls Game by Ivonne Hoyos

Wooden Dolls Game by Ivonne Hoyos

Published by José Betancourt

There is something quietly unsettling about the wooden dolls at the heart of this novel — hollow, hand-crafted, customizable to any likeness, yet carrying a power no one would expect to find tucked inside a craft fair stall. Wooden Dolls Game by Ivonne Hoyos opens with this arresting image: a carpenter in the Swiss forest, dismantling a clock to carve a set of dolls. That single metaphor — time, disassembled and reshaped into something new — anchors everything that follows. This is a novel about what happens when you are handed the ability to go backward, and whether going backward is ever truly enough to change what is to come. The story centers on Mary Jane and Antonia Crowell, non-identical twins born into a warm, multicultural family in Santa Ana, California. From the very first chapter, Hoyos demonstrates a sharp eye for domestic tension. The twins are five years old when a seemingly trivial dispute — who gets the pink bedroom in their new house — sets the entire trajectory of their lives into motion. …

Scientists Find the Oldest Wooden Tools to Date in Greece

Scientists Find the Oldest Wooden Tools to Date in Greece

Published by José Betancourt

Two objects unearthed at an archeological site in southern Greece are the oldest wooden tools yet found, according to a paper published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The objects came from the site Marathousa 1, once a lakeshore during the Middle Pleistocene. Other discoveries at the site, including stone tools and animal bones, go back 430,000 years, giving a probable date for the new finds. The artifacts include a 2.5-foot-long stick likely employed for digging and a handheld piece of poplar or maple that might have been used to shape stone implements. They offer insight into a little-known aspect of the technology of early humans, study author Katerina Harvati, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, said in an email to phys.org. Related Articles It is thought that hominins of the Middle Pleistocene used implements made from a wide range of materials. Wood, however, is susceptible to rot unless in an airless environment, making it difficult to find evidence of wooden tools. Researchers believe that the …

Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool

Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool

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Artist’s reconstruction of a Palaeolithic woman making a digging stick from an alder tree trunk G. Prieto; K. Harvati The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of Neanderthals. Prehistoric wooden artefacts are “very scarce”, says archaeologist Dirk Leder at the Lower Saxony State Office for Cultural Heritage in Hannover, Germany, who wasn’t involved in the study. “Every single find is welcome.” Yet it is likely that our extinct relatives used wooden tools for millions of years. “It might be the oldest type of tool that anybody used,” says Katerina Harvati at the University of Tübingen in Germany. Poor preservation and the difficulty of identifying wooden artefacts have limited our knowledge of them. Harvati and her colleagues discovered the tools at a site called Marathousa 1, which they first identified in 2013 in the Megalopolis basin in southern Greece. An opencast lignite mine had exposed layers of sediments, some of …

Lynley review – Wooden acting and clunky scripts stop this from being a great comeback for the detective show

Lynley review – Wooden acting and clunky scripts stop this from being a great comeback for the detective show

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Detective Inspector Lynley and his trusty lieutenant, DS Havers, are back. Seventeen years after The Inspector Lynley Mysteries slunk off our screens, following six series as a fixture on BBC One, the corporation has decided to reboot the franchise. But will this new drama – pithily titled Lynley – be a hard-hitting reimagining, or a more faithful resurrection of the Monday night staple? On a final warning for repeated insubordination, DS Barbara Havers (Sofia Barclay) is assigned to the new DI up from the big smoke. Tommy Lynley (Leo Suter), it turns out, isn’t quite like the rest of the team in this rural, East Anglian backwater: he’s an Oxford law graduate and the heir to an earldom, who drives a vintage Jensen Interceptor. “What is a bloke like you doing in a job like this?” Havers asks him on their …