I’m still stuck on a small point near the beginning: I was under the impression that the last ice cap petered out nearly 1000 mi north of where Florida lies—you can see eskers in mid-Pennsylvania and Ohio, e. g.--so how did it wipe out this tree’s extended former range in the Carolinas?

So, what’s the new recommendation for patients who suffer chronic pain? I recall that during the Bush administration at least one academic conducting a research protocol was arrested by DEA.

Are Spielberg’s, etc., films now going to be eligible for Emmy competition the year they are first streamed or broadcast? Because I presume the Television Academy would have received the same cautionary warning from DOJ. It is interesting, because the “Academies” now are trade associations that do not have effective co…

Sometimes it’s small details that stand out—I see Ford kept the folding rear headrests, which I consider a positive compared to most of the competition.

I wondered if it would happen, and it has: ‘Toyodas’ with the Connect system will get CarPlay and Android Auto, while Toyotas with the Entune system have only CarPlay, at least for the moment--there’s still time for other 2020 models.

Really? That’s not impressive for a university of Colgate’s size and reputation; much smaller Division III colleges including Swarthmore, Pomona, Grinnell, and freakin’ Bowdoin have significantly larger endowments. And unless they want to end up like Sweet Briar and selling off the donated art collection and more,…

Frosted cookies are inherently disgusting; in almost 60 years I’ve never had one that I’ve considered edible. My great-great-grandmother’s (1799-1895) rolled-and-cut sugar cookies get dusted with colored sugars for Christmas, and more recently red-hots cinnamon candies pressed on as tree ornaments or Santa’s or…

Little Big Shot Super Nozzle LBSR-1. It’s possible that this is a knock-off of the similar one my dad bought in the 1970s and still functions, but it costs $9 or less and is a simple, effective, water-efficient and compact design made from a small number of parts, which I appreciate as an engineer. It goes from a…

Little Big Shot Super Nozzle LBSR-1. It’s possible that this is a knock-off of the similar one my dad bought in the…

It’s not just that they were built for freight, it’s that they are owned and maintained by the freight railroad companies, and Amtrak pays a fee to use them, sometimes receiving lower priority. Imagine if the interstate highway system were built and run by the trucking companies and automobiles could use it by paying…

Why no FWD with snow tires, though? It’s almost as if the journos were being led to a conclusion. And Mazda PR must be pleased so many of them reached it.

With the SE, I believe the A1662 model supports Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile. I bought the T-Mobile for my sister’s birthday because the store sold out of the Verizon 128gb in the color I wanted, and the IMEI did check out OK using the bring-your-own tools for Verizon and AT&T.

And just a day or so ago, CR dropped its Recommended status on Dyson cordless models because despite performing very well on cleaning tasks, the latest owner survey showed a significant year-over-year decrease in reliability—5-year failure rate approaching 50%. I have friends with corded models that needed servicing…

My favorite Neon memory is of the first-generation model, which was sold at both Dodge and Plymouth dealers, identical except for a few badges. The Plymouth dealer a few blocks down the street from where I lived at the time in Laurel, MD, had one that was proclaimed to be a Plymouth Neon on its Monroney sticker, but…

Well, most conservatives under the age of 50 or so were educated in the same bad schools they routinely decry. It is, though, ironic that had the North American colonies lost the Revolutionary War, slavery might have ended in those colonies in 1833; although had the southern cotton trade remained British, resistance…

After thinking some more, I realized that without the fake window that rear door and c-pillar is going to look like a 4-door Saturn Ion, which may have resulted in a panicked rush job “solution”.

There are also a fair few elements from the 1954 film The High and the Mighty, starring John Wayne and, um, Robert Stack. Because of rights disputes, that film was subsequently unavailable for public showing for many years, until a restored version was recreated in 2005, and I vaguely recall TCM showing it, Zero Hour!,…

Be honest about the c-pillar and just get rid of the Civic-inspired fake quarter window. Or do it better, like the Regal.

Spoiler Alert! ;)

Well, you’ve made it uglier, and since it started out a TESLA, that takes real skill. And the SAE cargo volume is unchanged, although the space for occasionally carrying an oversized object is improved, at the expense of some additional curb weight, and thus unloaded range.

It’s lovely, unlike today’s bland sea of greige, running the gamut from oatmeal to dirt, to borrow a phrase from Michael Chabon. I would love to find a 1967 Mustang convertible in seafoam green (less saturated than the later, more aqua version) with a white top and a two-tone dark ivy gold/light ivy gold interior.