MIT researchers have created a self-driving scooter that can be used both indoors and outdoors, reports Siyi Chen for Quartz.
By coincidence, the Aztecs may unwittingly have created a self-fulfilling prophecy in their seismically star-crossed siting of what would become one of the world's largest cities.
Now, an upstart British company called Wayve claims to have created a self-driving car using technology that almost sounds Stone Age compared to the competition.
By describing America as the indispensable nation, Obama and his Oval Office predecessors have created a self-fulfilling outcome in which it's basically impossible for the US to share the responsibilities of maintaining global peace and security with anyone else.
Another possibility is that the recession and slow recovery have created a self-reinforcing dearth of investment, and that government policy to increase overall demand in the economy could also trigger more productivity-enhancing investments.
Moser, a political correspondent for The Nation and a native of North Carolina, argues that non-Southern Democrats have created a self-indulgent fable about the old Confederacy, a flattering "Disneyesque version of political history" that paints Democrats as "martyrs for racial justice" and Southerners as members of retrograde, white-hooded lynch mobs.
Take Hetherington's assertion that the negative long-term effect of divorce on children has "been exaggerated to the point where we now have created a self-fulfilling prophecy" while "objective assessments" tell a different story: 25percentt of adult children of divorce, compared with 10percentt from nondivorced families, displayed "serious social, emotional or psychological problems".
The vast majority of the several hundred people fighting against the four-state, $3.8bn pipeline have created a self-sustaining community at the sprawling camp, which is on corps land in southern North Dakota, and have put up semi-permanent structures or brought motor homes and trailers in advance of the harsh winter.
By coincidence, the Aztecs may unwittingly have created a self-fulfilling prophecy in their seismically star-crossed siting of what would become one of the world's largest cities. Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of geology at Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wisconsin, and the author of "Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth".
With a few snippets of DNA and a handy enzyme, scientists have created a self-powered molecular computer.
There are companies that have looked at the Namibian beetle's water capturing techniques and have created a self-filling water bottle.
