Perhaps the problem is that some of these disciplines aren’t actually “sciences” at all.

Produce the doors at scale? How the fuck do you get out of the car after pulling into your garage? Or do you always park outside so your neighbors will be impressed by your affluence?

I’m sorry, but I don’t think the statement goes into sufficient detail about how long ago the alleged event allegedly occurred.

My friend the physician insists that electrocution should be the most “humane” because a properly administered shock of sufficient voltage should dissociate the nervous system essentially immediately. The side effects that freak witnesses out, such as smoke, flames, and galvanic twitching ought not to be felt by the…

The Jetta dropped the multilink rear in 2010 but, but it came back in 2014. MQB or no, the 2019 apparently ditches it again to keep prices low. I’m not sure that this is the right tradeoff. VW planners are again convinced that American buyers don’t care as long as the suspension is sorted well enough and won’t pay …

I think he believes that when he signs an executive order, then things happen and he’s actually accomplished something. For the most part that’s wrong, because he signs orders for things the executive branch doesn’t have complete control over, and actually require legislative action, and then no one follows up and…

It’s rich that conservatives who champion at-will employment sue for protection from dismissal, but the only basis I see for claiming he is protected is race, and I don’t see that he can prove that his dismissal was specifically because he is white, rather than an obnoxious dick who publicly opposed his employer’s…

No. The instrument cluster is the thing I hate most about my Mazda3, even though I have the other cluster with the analogue speedo and smaller tach. Yes, Jason, you do need an analogue speedometer, because like an analogue watch it’s more user-friendly for access to the information most drivers need. I don’t need to…

No. The instrument cluster is the thing I hate most about my Mazda3, even though I have the other cluster with the analogue speedo and smaller tach. Yes, Jason, you do need an analogue speedometer, because like an analogue watch it’s more user-friendly for access to the information most drivers need. I don’t need to…

Didn’t the Pirates make money for a few years by fielding a mostly minimum-contract team and collecting revenue sharing, before starting to rebuild through draft picks?

Which is weird, because it was Brady’s choice to have the surgery performed in California by his friend and occasional golf partner, rather than by any surgeon at a New England medical center. Some players are right to wonder whether team-associated doctors are unbiased, but a random staph infection contracted at a…

Last year there were a bunch of comments ridiculing this practice, but my thesis is that it is easier to clean off both the wipers and the windshield when the former are not frozen to the latter. Ice can be broken off a freestanding wiper by gently flexing it; when it’s frozen to the windshield, the blade can tear…

It has long annoyed me that my Mazda’s factory nav system, unlike my previous Garmin portable, offers no choice whatsoever for voice or accent—American models get an female voice with an American accent.

Excuse me, it was apparently a Jaguar. She avoided conviction because the police failed to apply any field sobriety tests because she previously served a short part of a sentence for cocaine smuggling and they thought her parole would just be voided. But Cooke’s lawyers did try to use that news to try to get her…

To be fair to the Squire, he has little-to-no responsibility for the way she turned out; he and her mother (45 years his junior) were only married 73 days, and never having wanted another child at the age of 75, he had minimal contact until his death when she was 10. That was a fun time to be a Washingtonian, though,…

I’ve never thought that they do look the “same” unless you are only looking dead on with nothing in view to establish scale. Not being able to remember which is which is not the same thing as them looking identical.

Worrying that the highest sales volume in history isn’t going to continue ad infinitum is ridiculous; of course there will be future recessions, most people who wanted new cars have already bought one recently, and new cars are more durable than ever.

Since Sony uses LG’s OLED panel but is generally regarded as having better picture quality than LG’s comparable sets because of better processing, it makes some sense for LG to concentrate on this instead of fairly minor incremental panel improvements they make each year.

I was driving my elderly father’s car once and couldn’t get much air through the vents and raising the fan speed created a horrible beating racket. While the car was parked in his detached garage and driven infrequently, mice or chipmunks had turned the air box and vent system into a rodent condominium complex,…

It seems amusing, but there are plenty of people still living who remember when virtually nowhere had self-service pumps. The revolution took off as a response to the ‘73 oil embargo when gasoline first increased from about 25 cents/gal to triple that. Of course, the attractive savings occurred because jobs were…