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MIT Technology Review
2017年2月10日上午2:22 ·
Bee populations are declining world-wide—can pollinating drones pick up the slack?
Researchers just used a drone to pollinate a flower
Japanese tinkerers created a tiny, flower-pollinating drone for a world without insects.

MIT Technology Review

2017年2月10日上午2:22 · 

Bee populations are declining world-wide—can pollinating drones pick up the slack?

Japanese tinkerers created a tiny, flower-pollinating drone for a world without insects.

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Researchers just used a drone to pollinate a flower

Japanese tinkerers created a tiny, flower-pollinating drone for a world without insects.

  The move is the latest in the high-margin, fast-food fries war, where tinkering with a beloved food can be risky. In the late '90s, Burger King reworked its french fry recipe, hoping to grab customers from McDonald's, only to see that version flop. It tinkered with the formula again in 2001. In 2011, Burger King changed its classic fries recipe yet again, making them slightly thicker and less salty. The year before, Wendy's replaced its fries with "Natural-Cut" fries with sea salt and potato skin left on.

A High-Tech Menagerie

By KATHERINE BOUTON

Even before cloning and genetic tinkering, scientists have long meddled with animals, and it appears the benefits may outweigh the ethical quandaries.

Jose Goitia for The New York Times

Cuba Turns Clunkers Into Gold
By VICTORIA BURNETT

A new government rule allows Cubans to buy and sell used vehicles freely for the first time in half a century as part of President Raúl Castro’s economic plan.

Retailers Tweak Sites to Spur Sales

Online stores have long tinkered with website designs to boost business, but the strategy is becoming more important as Web retail has gotten increasingly competitive.

Tokoro added that aloha shirts have gaudy colors and patterns, and "the shirt ends up wearing you, not the other way around."
"An aloha shirt is definitely not for the company worker type who drives around in a hybrid electric car and takes his children to drive-in restaurants," Tokoro said. "An aloha shirt only looks perfect on a guy who has the air of a tinkerer who is always working on his clunker of a car."
Environment Ministry officials don Hawaiian shirts, known as Aloha shirts, on June 1 as a move to promote the "super cool biz" look, part of efforts to save power. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)Porters at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo wear aloha shirts with their trademark caps. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)

'Back to Blood'
By TOM WOLFE
Reviewed by THOMAS MALLON
Tom Wolfe's new novel is built around the gaudy clash of Miami's different ethnic and financial populations.

Handlebars

Unremarkable, in a Nice Way

The Suzuki V-Strom 650 Adventure has an enduring popularity, and for 2012 the company tinkered with the design. The bike has received a face-lift, a new engine, suspension and electronics.

handlebar
(hăn'dl-bär')
n.
A cylindrical, straight or curved steering bar, usually fitted with handles at each end, as on a bicycle. Often used in the plural.

tinker

Syllabification: (tin·ker)

Pronunciation: /ˈtiNGkər/

Translate tinker | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• 1(especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.
• a person who makes minor mechanical repairs, especially on a variety of appliances and apparatuses, usually for a living.
• British, chiefly derogatory a Gypsy or other person living in an itinerant community.

• 2an act of attempting to repair something.

verb

[no object]

• attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect:he spent hours tinkering with the car
• [with object] archaic attempt to mend (something) by tinkering.

Phrases

not give a tinker's damn

informal not care at all.

Derivatives

tinkerer

noun

Origin:

Middle English (first recorded in Anglo-Latin as a surname): of unknown origin

[名]

1 （あちこち歩き回る）鋳掛け屋；へたな職人；((主に米))よろず修繕屋, なんでも屋.

2 ((英・古風))いたずらっ子, きかん坊.

3 （へたな）修繕, いじくり回すこと

have a tinker at the radio
ラジオをいじくり回す.

4 ((スコット・アイル))ロマニー；放浪［浮浪］者；物ごい.

━━[動](自)

1 鋳掛け（屋）をする.

2 （…を）手直しする；へたに修繕する［いじくり回す］, いじくり回して時間をつぶす((away, about/at, with ...))

tinker (away) at ［＝tinker with］ broken clocks
壊れた時計をいじくり回す

tinker around in the garden
庭いじりをして時間をつぶす.

━━(他)

1 〈なべ・かまの〉鋳掛けをする.

2 〈機械などを〉へたに［間に合わせに］修繕する((up)).




gaudy

• [gɔ'ːdi]

[形]（-i・er, -i・est）

1 〈服・装飾などが〉けばけばしい；はでで俗っぽい.

2 〈文体などが〉美辞麗句を使った.

━━[名]((英))大祝宴：大学で毎年卒業生を招待して行う.

clunker

(clŭng'kər)
n. Informal

1. A decrepit machine, especially an old car; a rattletrap.
2. A failure; a flop.