That concept is so achingly beautiful! Those door mirrors!

When will you influential folks at Jalopnik prevail on Mazda to do the right thing and build a hardtop Miata?

Not sure why you would say that. This seems like a sound business idea.

SSNs still have pumps running even at minimal “hotel” levels of reactor output. Electric boats, do not. After that it is, as mentioned by others here, a question of isolating all vibrating parts as much as possible. I believe that pump jet propulsion is very quiet.

The only reason that the K-108 returned to port was that she was commanded by the Vilniush Shkoolmashter.

But paradoxically, millions of people hate unions.

Pssshhhhht. You people and your plebian choices. Give me a Harrison H4.

Is that a bloody Nimrod? Yes, you are weird.

I would get some wonks to build be a brand new de Havilland Mosquito, but this time with composite bodywork instead of plywood. And modern avionics everything.

Aaah, the infamous Willie-Dee. Never gets old.

Or we could put for for sale to the world, that one greatest American national asset: Thomas Friedman’s moustache. That might bring in one trillion dollars.

Now that is bad parenting indeed. Great film though.

Oddly enough, bearded and age lined Logan looks a lot like Cain in Supernatural.

Exactly. Why bother with hauling ore out of a gravity well when there is the Belt to mine?

A very nice and timely article. Thanks for writing this.

By the way, how does one get ungreyed in these parts? I am a lonely refugee from Jalopnik.

I am increasingly becoming aware of the low stipends offered to humanities students in some schools. It is a shame. But surely you conflating two groups here. The international students who pay full tuition are usually here for MS degrees in engineering or something similar. They don’t do any research unless they…

I am not sure about hiring practices in the private sector, so I cannot speak to that. However, in university labs, most graduate programs are working hard to recruit URM students. Especially in the meagre funding climate of today, the NIH URM supplement can sometimes mean the difference between a PI’s lab remaining…

Not sure that is any longer the case - for instance, the NIH will add a minority supplement to any PI’s grant if he/she is mentoring a minority grad student.

Check out the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity” - it is a biography of Srinivas Ramanujan. You might enjoy it.