I'll be honest here. I would like to have a few beers with whomever used the term "Kevorkianesque" in a field report. I think this is a person whom I would enjoy drinking with.

I haven't yet been to Palau but I was under the understanding that life jacket and no fins was the rule and that leaving the surface was strictly forbidden both for your own safety and for the jellies.

We were in Denver for GABF a few years back touring breweries up in Boulder. On the way to visit Redstone Meadery when we passed a BMW dealer. Which had a red M1 sitting outside. My sister-in-law who was driving thought I was kidding when I said "Turn around now, I have to go look at that car" Had a big note taped…

DennyCrane answered this in another comment already but the simple answer is that there is nothing to protect themselves from. The most recent samples released from August of last year show that the peak inside the exclusion zone is 133 mSV/yr with the majority of samples coming in at 1-10 mSV/yr. That means the…

Do they charge for the Armco at the Ring when you take it out like that the way they do at most tracks in the US?

My personal favorite photo of a blue ring. Since it is one of the ones I took. Now I want to get back to Lembeh even sooner.

And the right answer is to not purchase growler beer from any establishment that tries to pull that crap. Either fill my stainless steel growlers or I'll take them to someone else to fill.

The first headphones designed to be inserted into the ears were patented in 1891, and it certainly wasn't by Apple. As others have pointed out they were widely available in the 80s and not that uncommon in the late 60s and 70s.

In 2013 in Ohio there were 13 workers killed in work zone accidents. I'm sure their families do not think this is a problem nobody is having.

Wasn't there a porn parody that had female storm troopers and a rather disturbing bestiality\wookie thing going on?

I just can't feel any pity for a state that subsidizes farmers to grow rice in the desert. Eventually you reap what you sow and you run out of water.

Power and efficiency numbers aren't out yet, but Lima has a history of producing great power plants like the Lima four in my old Merkur.

I used the post office in the Arcade on a regular basis when I worked downtown. And I've purchased from the coin store and the men's clothing store in the past.

Yeah not exactly new, and it sounds way more complicated than the existing infrared systems that many cities already have.

ANY sticky rubber on ANY car will do this. Anyone who has ever autocrossed stock class on Hoosiers has seen this happen. First time I ever saw it demonstrated was on a C5-Z06 which would rotate the fronts nearly 90 degrees and the rears 45 degrees on a single 45 second autocross run. Didn't take big power or big…

Technically, yes, you could dive 1,000 feet in a normal diving skin suit. But you wouldn't last long down there. The pressure is so great at that depth that you'd only be able to stand it for a few minutes.

I thought South Bates St. in Akron, OH was steep but it comes in at only 28% grade. Instead of grooves in the concrete for traction though it has a unique layout that has a pattern of granite blocks which are raised an inch or so above the bricks that make up the rest of the street.

Rejection would be a major setback for the Detroit-based UAW, which has mounted a costly campaign to organize foreign auto plants. UAW President Bob King has warned that his union has no future if it can't organize foreign-owned plants, because it will be nearly impossible to demand higher wages from Detroit's…

Fun fact: At the Cargill mine in Cleveland the equipment that is used inside the mine stays there forever after it is taken down. Any repairs and maintenance are done underground and it is never taken back up to the surface until it is of no more use. At which point it rusts within days.