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There is a news story going around with a headline that is some variation of :

Passenger lands plane after pilot dies

Reading further, we learn:

The passenger, whose name has not yet been released, is a licensed pilot with 20 years of experience but had never flown a King Air plane.

He was guided by local air traffic controllers—one of whom called a friend in Connecticut who was familiar with the plane.

The team talked the passenger through the process of disengaging the autopilot and landing safely at the Southwest Florida International Airport.

Well, now:

Experienced pilot guided through landing in unfamiliar plane

Doesn’t sound quite as dramatic, does it?  Experienced carpenter uses new power tool for the first time!  Details at 11.

Follow this link to a page with virtual bubble wrap. Click on a bubble and pop it. It’s not quite as satisfying as real bubble wrap. And why is popping bubble wrap so satisfying, anyway? What ancestral activity does it symbolize? Where’s an evolutionary psychologist when you need one?

The Japanese have sheets of bubble wrap manufactured specifically for popping:

One of these is Pucchin Sukatto, a 10 x 10-cm bubble-wrap sheet developed purely for popping purposes. Pucchin is the description in Japanese of the sound made when you pop bubble wrap, and sukatto means to feel refreshed.

To make users feel the latter, the bubble-wrap sheets are made of special polyethylene that creates a sharper sound than your standard bubble wrap when the bubbles are burst.

Bandai makes a toy that simulates bubble wrap, except that the bubbles can be popped over and over again: