In case I can actually help some parents out there (rather than you child-hating cynical bastards more likely to be reading this...jk) here’s what I can tell you as professor of Child and Adolescent Studies with a Ph.D. in Child Development.

I once balled my eyes out for an hour straight listening to No Ordinary Love on a continuous loop driving back from LAX after dropping of my girlfriend at the time. A time when, as an 20 year old very macho, hard ass (read: dumb) male, I thought crying was a sign of mental illness. Sade is still one of only a few…

Bingo and well said. I actually had an in-class discussion with my students where that back and forth went down more down like that more or less. When the states’ rights issue came up, I asked, the right to do what? The student actually had a reply—and it was something like “the right to conduct their own internal…

the numbers are bad—-and unacceptable—but not quite as bad as that. The only overwhelming majority in that linked to article was based on Lowen’s informal poll of school teachers—which is horrifying enough, and may explain why the Southern Poverty Law center found in a 2018 report that “only 8 percent of high school…

Mr. Harriot...right on so many levels, I just want to sincerely thank you for succinctly laying all of that out. For nearly 20 years I’ve been arguing essentially the same thing in Higher Ed (my specific bag is figuring out how to close equity gaps in academic outcomes, e.g. retention and graduation rates), and time…

You are right It is incorrect...posted about it but in the greys.  The average in the U.S. is about 30 kWh/day

Hi...not sure where you got the figure for average power consumption for U.S homes.  The figures for 2018 were closer to 11,000 kWh per year, a touch over 900 per month, and so around 30 kWh per day.  This bike’s battery as a back-up wouldn’t get you through a typical day.  But I still like the idea very much.

JT...I think you missed another utility scenario from your brilliant idea....dump truck!!  

I agree with Kyree’s reply below. The enthusiast base (where we presume most manual buyers come from) does not seem to be shrinking relative to the continued, yearly reduction in the percentage of a particular model that still has a manual option for sale in the U.S. Not to mention the number of entire model lines…

A little surprised that the article didn’t mention that another of her great distinctions was as a member of the “Founding Mothers” of NPR, whose other surviving members are Linda Wertheimer, Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg (all of whom have been eulogizing her all day). What they accomplished in giving NPR its…

Wow on the heel-&-toe action, and how was he that good at it given that 99% of the the time Senna would’ve been using his left foot, not his right, when driving production cars?

I don’t know. I think it works at the big idea level. When the Ship of Theseus is brought up in undergrad philosohy classes the discussion quickly moves away from the appearance criteria and toward the “at what point did it cease to be Theseus’s ship?” argument. And that echoes much more modern takes on the same basic…

Just about to post the same the same thing and you beat me to it. Good catch!

An interesting observation that Car & Driver made about the 2018 A4 manual (not this particular version): One of the few cars (maybe the only?) in the last few years where the manual version was faster 0-60 than the automatic—-which is doubly surprising given that the the A4s have the ostensibly sportier DCTs and not…

Hmmm...as a Greek who keeps track of other Greeks (obviously) I have to ask what what the odds are of the GM and top player both being Greek? We have a saying in my family. One Greek doing well at a job—-just means they are good at their job, Two Greeks, something’s fishy. Three? RICO act.

Look at that....came here to read about another incident confirming reasons to be angry and depressed, and perhaps some on-point comments, sees mention of MURS, decides to take a deeper dive, and exits with a new artist on my Spotify heavy rotation. Thanks!

Hi Beth, your statement “(If several authors have emails listed, go with the person who is listed last. They are likely to be the person who was in charge of the project, or who runs the lab where it was conducted.)“ varies quite a bit by discipline. In many social science disciplines and their aligned journals, for…

You have a point—-perhaps more than you realize—about peer/friend influence, although it’s not so much about modern vs. past/ancient. What we’ve learned from behavioral genetics is that the type of environmental influences that are most impactful in producing individual differences are not what are termed “shared”…

I can confirm that general info as well. About 15 years ago I was on a Lufthansa flight (LAX->Frankfurt) and we hit the worst turbulence I’d ever experienced (or have sense). Unbuckled passengers elevated out of their seats and hitting the overhead luggage bins, food and beverage carts knocked over..people screaming,…

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