I just completed installing a secondary battery system in our FJ Cruiser.  There are lots of reasons to have a dual battery system, but from...

If you're a student of 20th century history, you probably know all about the vital role of the “ Mulberry harbours ” in the Allied inv...

Hip hip hooray!  Curiosity has been offline for several weeks, after a software glitch (and possibly a memory failure; reports vary).  T...

Experiments in psychology and sociology are plagued by uncontrolled (and perhaps uncontrollable) variables and difficulties in replication. ...

Via APOD , of course ( full resolution here )...

On many CPU architectures, especially older ones, there are a relatively small number (sometimes only two or three!) of CPU registers.  Mode...

The Atlantic has a great article up about the massive construction project currently underway , mainly deep underground in New York City.  ...

NPR has an article posted digging into the phenomenon of skyrocketing employment disability rates in the U.S.   There are lots of interestin...

An excellent satire on how the left thinks about guns...

And some of them even look useful!  I recommend muting to avoid the awful background tracks.  Via reader Simi L...

The “battery problem” refers to the currently poor methods we have available to store electrical energy.  In particular, either by weight or...

I happened across this in my morning reading , entirely by accident.  On January 15th, 1919, an enormous molasses storage tank burst, spewin...

Way back in the Paleozoic era, when I was going to grade school, the kids who actually accomplished something – whether in academic studies,...

Snopes has identified this as a true story written by Kent Nerburn while he was a taxi driver in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Below is the hea...

Readers of a certain age may remember the gigantic Saturn V rockets that launched the Apollo missions to the moon.  If you were fascinate...

Megan McArdle explains why countries seem to repeatedly make utterly foolish economic and financial policy decisions.   The doom approaches...

Generally speaking, you can count on pablum from the “tame conservative” David Brooks in his commentary published by the progressive podium ...

From Mark Steyn : ...in Britain, in Canada, in Australia (which is to say in some of the oldest free societies on earth and among the very...

When I first visited this site , my internal comment was ... “Really?” And the answer is ... “Yes, people really do compete in chicken m...

From San Diego's own Darrell Issa: