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Elves are a magical race. Without a source of magic they eventually lose their bodies and diminish into woodland spirits. You can't have elves without magic and still have them be …

The youngest named character would be Nellas who briefly befriended young Turin in the woods of Doriath.

The average in the US are heavily affected by obese African American women with diabetes lacking a highschool education. It's a societal issue more than a healthcare issue.

The exceptions are such because they are able to sell themselves as a "lifestyle brand" with a musical act associated. Something many musicians don't understand is that music is no…

The question isn't "if" they're spying. Every smartphone and nearly app you install is constantly spying on you and using your data for their benefit. The question is, do you trust…

I have built two mini-ITX NAS units. One is a Jonsbo N1. The other a Jonsbo N2. Jonsbo N1 is a pretty good case if the only thing you care about is getting a a small footprint as y…

I couldn't agree more. Actual wealth comes from having ownership in wealth generating assets. You can act rich for a season off of a big paycheck but you'll soon be back to poverty…

Carl Sagan is an excellent communicator but he relies too heavily on literary tropes and popular fiction. The issue of witchcraft is not unchecked beliefs, but the combustible mixt…

For home use, you should aim for multiple sensors that can track temperature, humidity, CO2, VOC, and PM2.5. CO2 is important to track as high concentrations can impact sleep quali…

We will continue to have pedestrian collisions until we start blaming those actually at fault: the politicians and engineers who design and build dangerous transit and automotive s…

The dialogue could have used a couple more passes to be more subtle and cleverly written. It is important to remember that Tolkien was like a British gentleman: well-mannered with …

I had to stop reading this article when it used the term "unnatural quiet". It is the noise that is unnatural, not the quiet. Ancient cities teemed with birds and bird songs, so mu…

If you can physically drive 50+ mph down a street signed for 25 mph then whoever built the road may have been thoughtful but they certainly weren't thinking about safety. Signs and…

Language vs dialect is a political question, not a scientific one. There are plenty of mutually unintelligible dialects and plenty of mutually intelligible languages.

In the earliest iterations Tolkien imagined Middle-Earth to have steam punk technology. I believe it is because steam ships and rolling tanks are much closer to what Tolkien expier…

Don't tell the diehard fans but I prefer the theatrical edition as the story works better in a shorter punchier presentation.

If you haven't seen any of the fan edits you are doing yourself a huge diservice. Last one I saw was the M4 edit which went as far as redoing the CGI. There are brilliant performan…

The trick is to do an 4:1 dilution of sparkling water and diet soda. You will end up with 1-2 cans of diet soda heavily diluted by water. After you get used to it, ordinary canned …

Most of the new housing I see built are 5-over-1s. Giant 6 story apartment buildings built on already busy streets. What California needs is flexible zoning to allow mixed-use medi…

Sure, we can just keep on increasing taxes until all the top earners leave for cheaper areas. I prefer low taxes. What's there to lose by building towns at a human scale? Personall…

It isn't a binary between 9,000 lb vehicles and 18 lb bicycles. There is a middle ground with low-weight, low-speed vehicles like 800 lb "golf carts" and 1800 lb Japanese micro-car…

Ephesus was founded after this rise in sea level. Ephesus was founded 3,000-4,000 years ago. The sea level rise occured over a period of 21,000 to 3,000 years ago.

A lot of it is bad urban design. Traffic calming measures to keep cars slow such as narrow steets and roundabouts can do a lot. It shouldn't be physically possible to travel at hig…

Consumer grade filters have nicer fans that let them push move more air with less noise. I have multiple in my house and it's amazing how quiet they are.

When it comes to semantics there needs to be a clear separation between common and technical terms. I once had someone try to argue can't use the word bison and buffalo interchange…