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The Bugatti Centodieci is a $8.9 million homage to the early 90s EB110 supercar

The Bugatti Centodieci is the French automaker’s most powerful supercar yet — coming in a skosh above the Chiron at 1,600 horsepower. But it’s not just the power — or the $8.9 million price tag — that makes the Centodieci stand out.

The angular supercar, still dotted with the signature Bugatti design elements, tips its hat to the mid-engine EB110 supercar that debuted in 1991 when the company was owned by Romano Artioli.

One look at the Bugatti Centodieci, which had its world debut at the Quail Gathering during Monterey Car Week, and it’s clear that the early 1990s supercar was an inspiration.

The Bugatti Centodieci

But the Centodieci isn’t a copycat of the wedge-shaped, seemingly two-dimensional EB110. Instead, Bugatti designers aimed to bring the EB110 into the modern era.

“Transporting this classic look into the new millennium without copying it was technically complex, to say the least,” Bugatti head designer Achim Anscheidt said in a statement. “We had to create a new way of combining the complex aerothermal requirements of the underlying Chiron technology with a completely different aesthetic appearance.” 

The Centodieci, which means 110 in Italian to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the company’s founding, has a newly developed, deep-seated front spoiler along with three-section air intakes. The iconic Bugatti horseshoe is smaller than its counterparts — a decision made to fit in with the car’s the low-dropping front. The Centodieci also has new, very narrow headlamps with integrated LED daytime running lights and five round air inserts to ensure sufficient air intake for its 16-cylinder engine.

The nod to the 1990s ends inside the Centodieci. In here, it’s all modern-day engineering. The 8.0-liter W16 engine produces 1,600 horsepower and can accelerate from 0 to 62 miles per hour in 2.4 seconds. The top speed has been electronically limited to 236 mph.

Here’s a 360-degree view of the vehicle.

Bugatti will only produce 10 of the Centodieci and they’re already sold, Pierre Rommelfanger, Bugatti’s head of exterior and structure development confirmed to TechCrunch. Typically, supercars such as these can be highly customized to meet the desires of their owners.

And the Bugatti Centodieci will be no different — to a point. “There are limits in order to reduce complexity,” Rommelfanger said.

Deliveries to the first Centodieci customers will begin in 2022. Bugatti has other orders to fill besides the Centodieci. The company is also producing 40 of the Bugatti Divo and just one La Voiture Noire, which is the world’s most expensive new car ever sold at $18.68 million. The company also plans to produce 500 Bugatti Chiron cars.

If president Stephan Winkelmann sticks to his plan to introduce two new products each year, more Bugatti models will soon join the Centodieci, Chiron, Divo and La Voiture Noire.

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The Bugatti Divo Couldn’t Get Much Lighter and Still be a Bugatti

When Bugatti finally revealed the Divo, a $5.7 million Chiron-based coachbuild project, it ended up looking a lot more like the Chiron than we thought it would. But that wasn’t the only surprise. Despite Bugatti claiming the Divo’s development had prioritized handling, the new car is only 77 pounds lighter than the Chiron. Considering the Chiron weighs about 4,400 pounds, we wondered why the weight loss wasn’t more substantial.

At the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last weekend, we got our answer during a conversation with Pierre Rommelfanger, the Divo’s project leader. When asked if there were any battles he lost during development, he immediately brought up the car’s weight.

“The battle is we start from a very high level,” said Rommelfanger. “So of course we would like to reduce weight more, but this is very difficult if you start with a car like the Chiron where nearly everything is carbon fiber. I would not say we lost any battle, but of course, there is always the thinking to find the right balance of how much to do because we want to give a car to the customer which still can be used for driving long distances. You could have done some things more extreme, but I think that’s not matching our customer expectation.”

Theoretically, Bugatti could have stripped out the interior to further reduce weight, but as Rommelfanger pointed out, “That was not the target.”

So despite being the most track-capable Chiron derivative, the Divo is still first and foremost a Bugatti. Besides, those who can afford one of the 40 Divo models are likely to have another supercar dedicated for the track, so the missed weight savings might not be that big a deal to owners.

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Living brain tissue experiments raise new kinds of ethical questions

Living brain tissue experiments raise new kinds of ethical questions

SEATTLE — Live bits of brain look like any other piece of meat —  pinkish, solid chunks of neural tissue. But unlike other kinds of tissue or organs donated for research, they hold the memories, thoughts and feelings of a person.

“It is identified with who we are,” Karen Rommelfanger, a neuroethicist at Emory University in Atlanta, said February 13 in a news conference at the annual meeting of…

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The Bugatti Divo Couldn’t Get Much Lighter and Still be a Bugatti

When Bugatti finally revealed the Divo, a $5.7 million Chiron-based coachbuild project, it ended up looking a lot more like the Chiron than we thought it would. But that wasn’t the only surprise. Despite Bugatti claiming the Divo’s development had prioritized handling, the new car is only 77 pounds lighter than the Chiron. Considering the Chiron weighs about 4,400 pounds, we wondered why the weight loss wasn’t more substantial.

At the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last weekend, we got our answer during a conversation with Pierre Rommelfanger, the Divo’s project leader. When asked if there were any battles he lost during development, he immediately brought up the car’s weight.

“The battle is we start from a very high level,” said Rommelfanger. “So of course we would like to reduce weight more, but this is very difficult if you start with a car like the Chiron where nearly everything is carbon fiber. I would not say we lost any battle, but of course, there is always the thinking to find the right balance of how much to do because we want to give a car to the customer which still can be used for driving long distances. You could have done some things more extreme, but I think that’s not matching our customer expectation.”

Theoretically, Bugatti could have stripped out the interior to further reduce weight, but as Rommelfanger pointed out, “That was not the target.”

So despite being the most track-capable Chiron derivative, the Divo is still first and foremost a Bugatti. Besides, those who can afford one of the 40 Divo models are likely to have another supercar dedicated for the track, so the missed weight savings might not be that big a deal to owners.

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When articles about the world’s first head transplant began popping up in news feeds, Emory Neuroethics Program director Karen Rommelfanger thought it must be a hoax. There hadn’t been any papers published about the procedure or any serious discussion of practice operations on animals or human corpses. Just a few still photos and lots of online speculation. Most of the conversations were centered on the gross-out factor of the operation or the very high likelihood that such a procedure would fail. Very few were talking about the many ethical concerns a head transplant would raise. via Snapzu : Health & Body

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American Journal Of Bioethics

American Journal Of Bioethics

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As the official blog of the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, The Neuroethics Blog is excited to announce a new series of posts by the members of the AJOB N Editorial Board.(More…)

Her work has been published inLiterature & MedicineandtheAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience,and she has a chapter co-authored with Karen Rommelfanger forthcoming in…

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“Is the extreme that we have a kind of neuro-eugenics with only one correct brain? Well, yeah.” said Rommelfanger. “We are already moving towards a right way of being in society at large. That’s kind of what consumer culture relies on.”

DARPA’s Brain Chip Implants Could Be the Next Big Mental Health Breakthrough—Or a Total Disaster

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