The fact that he's holding one red sock and one blue one is just too perfect.

Everybody know, it for girls!

I see the problem here. You're confusing the selection side of evolution with the genetics side. Natural and artificial selection don't care how the actual genes act. To answer your question, no, a given gene would not be any different whether filtered out by natural selection or by human design. It would be…

Why are you referencing the standard, then saying a car with no engine gets infinite mpg? That's not how it's calculated under the standard. The MPGe scale exists solely so we wouldn't have stickers that say things like "infinite mpg". Stop trying to use the authority of a government standard to back up a statement…

How are the waves today? I was out there yesterday and they were totally churlish.

Hauteurs gonna haute.

I think your confusion is stemming from the fact that you are not comfortable with the distinction between natural and artificial selection, as mentioned in your side note. There is a very big and important distinction—that of design.

You're actually referring to the practice of Husbandry, or selective breeding. Humans have been doing it since prehistory. Of course it applies to animals, too—just look at Spaniels or Greyhounds. Selective breeding is not "survival of the fittest", it is a system of descent designed and carried out by an…

I clicked through to this article expecting to find it chock full of Holmes references, but yours is the ONLY one. I'm disappointed in Gizmodo... seriously disappointed.

You could look at it either way. If an electric car's battery is empty, no amount of gasoline will get the car charged and running again.

Nice Forza screen! I want one.

Its manual transmission. I've never seen another MG Optima with a 5-speed, and it always surprises people when they see it—even coworkers, and I WORK for Hyundai/Kia. Sure, the shifter feels like it's out of a Russian tractor, and the clutch feel is... lacking, but it takes the car from unpalatable vanilla to being…

I can't really speak to press cars, since I'm on the development side and don't really deal with the press or any sort of PR. That's up to the marketing guys, and I try to speak with marketing people as little as possible.

I thought that would get to me too, but we drive the absolute dog shit out of our prototypes. Nothing goes to the shredder in any condition that I would want. Near-production cars that run short tests usually end up as pool vehicles, driven over the course of everyday site operations so they get a full useful…

I can vouch for this. I'll also say that if it does happen, you'd better hope you total it. We had a driver back a car into something hard, and do a surprising amount of damage to the rear bodywork, but nothing that affected the car's tests, so it just continued to run without body repair. From that point on,…

Every Kia is not a "down market" Hyundai. The vehicles are developed separately, and the two sides of the company are kept largely separate—much more so than one would expect.

The Sonata doesn't have power steering fluid, valves, or line pressure. It's one of those eee-lectric jobbers.

Will you come a-wandering, Sonata with me?...

That's super hot compared to what mine can do. The closest I have to porn is typing "5318008" and flipping it upside down.

Peleg? He should have called it the Pequod.