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The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year
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Health, Science & Technology
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2 weeks ago
Ryan Kluftinger is Canadian, so he may perhaps be forgiven for imagining that macho male Americans would ever abandon their "fist through the air" pickup grilles for a paltry five hundred...
Evolutionary Biologist Reacts to Creationist Arguments
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Health, Science & Technology
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2 weeks ago
This is the very best kind of didactic. Clint entertains while teaching... two different subjects. The obvious subject is creationism / evolution / natural selection. The less...
IIHS updates its testing criteria to focus on pedestrians and back-seaters
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3 weeks ago
Pedestrian casualties have been rising fast over the last few years, so it's good to see the IIHS resetting its criteria to push manufacturers to protect pedestrians. Of course, a cynic...
This Is How We'll Clean Up Space Junk
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Health, Science & Technology
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one month ago
Capitalists consider that "if no one can show clear title, we can do whatever we want". The communications businesses alone - not just Musk - are putting up huge numbers of satellites,...
Scientists keep discovering 'impossible galaxies'. What does this mean?
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Health, Science & Technology
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one month ago
The James Webb Space Telescope is kinda fabulous... It's successor is being planned... for launch maybe twenty years from now. Takes time.....
Driving Tesla Cybertruck - Overhyped or the Pickup Reinvented?
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Health, Science & Technology
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one month ago
I'm not a truck person. Trucks are irrational for most people. But hey! Motor vehicles are very largely irrational purchases. A three-pointed star costs money! Like a Mercedes, trucks are...
PC nerd alert! Two articles for the price of one! (Both came across my screen today.)
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Health, Science & Technology
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one month ago
I bought a 4" x 4" mini PC a year ago. I'm not a gamer, so I don't need top-of-the-line. It has a mid-range AMD Ryzen chip, and RAM and disks from the previous machine. I run both...
Earth was once a giant snowball, here's why
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one month ago
Most people like simple explanations. Occam's Razor tells us that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. But... Occam's Razor applies to all the data available. And sadly for...