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It's not the ticket system that is broken; it's the people. The problem with stadium tours is that 95 percent or more of the seats are awful. They provide an extremely poor concert…

Too. Many. People. True for the entire planet; the effects are not evenly distributed.

This is Volkswagen, so they actually got 20km and the rest was measured rolling downhill with the engine off.

Occasion-related giving is madness on a finite planet. It is one of the main drivers of the waste economy. We buy things people don't need and exchange them for things we don't nee…

That is a work of stunning arrogance and foolishness. Math is a game we play in our heads that represents a fictionalized ideal version of reality. An alien intelligence might have…

I am dissapoint.

And that is the killer app! When you have 3 dozen 4GB DDR3 SIMMs sitting around doing booger all, it is overwhelmingly tempting to get a card like this, if it is priced aggressivel…

Cheating... I'm not sure that word means what you think it means. Give a quiz that can be completed in your own time over the course of a week. That sounds more like an assignment …

I came across an "Eight Sleep" unit, which is a high-tech system for cooling a mattress topper. Apparently, someone had problems with leaks in the topper section and threw it out. …

Because market research has discovered that many customers are not price-sensitive, even when it makes no sense. Some people with limited means do not even look at prices. The read…

One aspect of basic biology that is almost invariably neglected when discussing the possibility of the continued existence of cryptids like Homo floresiensis is that there must be …

They fixed it. Possibly indicative that someone from the USGS reads this website.

When are we ever going to learn that our activities are needlessly destroying the planet? Make a phone. Sell it. Make it repairable and upgradeable. Let people keep it for a long t…

You need to make an account and then you find out you have to put in a credit card just to try it out? Oh, heck, go fuck yourself with a sharp cactus!

"You will be eaten by an aurochs. We don't know what that means."

I spent my childhood worrying about a nuclear attack on my city and now I find out that we didn't even make it to the map? I am disappoint.

We often exclude obvious apects of natural selection in these studies. In this case, the decision to have children during a pandemic may be indicative of a predisposition to poor m…

This man is illiterate.

It's matter and it's dark, but that means it's dark matter, not Dark Matter. That matters.

Or, and this is radical, we could just stop buying cheap Chinese-made crap like inflatable Halloween decorations made from petroleum products and shipped across the sea using bunke…

Why is learning anything so damned hard? Mainly because we are monkeys to whom a reasonably accurate reductive analysis can be applied if we label the axes "asshole" and "idiot". I…