When the question is “will something (insert negative thing here) disproportionately hurt the poor?” the answer is always “yes.” That’s why poverty sucks donkey balls. Unless it is a very temporary/acute condition, poverty negatively impacts every dimension of life and turns what are to upper income earners…

Long post, but need to vent a bit because I am a genuine fan of Cadillacs CTS and ATS offerings. I realize that sedan sales are down in general, as people keep buying cross-overs and SUVs, but Cadillac has to take considerable blame for CTS and ATS sales numbers. Here’s my experience. After a lot (several months)…

Long post, but need to vent a bit because I am a genuine fan of Cadillacs CTS and ATS offerings. I realize that sedan sales are down in general, as people keep buying cross-overs and SUVs, but Cadillac has to take considerable blame for CTS and ATS sales numbers. Here’s my experience. After a lot (several months)…

Not sure what you mean. My first question was trying to make that exact point. It sounded as if the author was conflating velocity (speed plus direction) with acceleration in stating that an accelerometer could measure speed. it sounds like you are making the same point I made, which is if you know you are starting…

Not being an expert on how this sensor works...but if it is actually measuring acceleration along any axis, then if it turned on while you were already moving (in a straight line), there would be no new forces acting on the sensor. Now if you turned or sped up or slowed down, then there are forces to be measured.

Hi... re “showing your current speed in a driving app”
I didn’t think the accelerometer could actually determine speed. A disruption or deformation to the crystal structure requires a change in force. I suppose you could get a very rough estimate based on the initial change in speed from a dead stop, but isn’t speed…

Yo Ghost—long response but I have a lot of personal empathy, so figured I’d try to be helpful. This may not be the answer you were hoping for, but you are probably at the stage where you need a good exterminator. I tried everything I personally could after it became clear that rats had gotten into our stand-up…

Trust me, I don’t expect boxing to change anything. There’s hardly a sport that is willing to stick to something “just because.” But there’s no reason that refs couldn’t more consistently follow one set of rules, or more aggressively sanction boxers who try to push it by pulling their short halfway up their abdomen…

I’ve seen that too, and I’ve seen that not done, and I’ve seen everything in between. That’s part of the problem. A general lack of consistency. And that reminds me that you don’t see this problem nearly as often in MMA fights because the groin protectors are so much more fitted (while still apparently functioning…

I completely appreciate that a low blow is technically defined as blow below belt line (although I know some refs take a more conservative take and count anything below the navel as a low blow)...but this is the problem with low blows in boxing...especially if you are going to argue that it’s a true shot to the nuts…

I do, and in most cases corrections are made to account for this, from simple Bonferroni’s to much more complicated models to account for inflation..but it’s an unavoidable problem unless you are willing to increase your Type II error and miss something that’s there—-which is something people are loathe to do when…

There’s a lot going on here, and until the biochemical pathways (mechanisms) are modeled and identified, tests of association are always going to be problematic. The other very basic issue is stats 101. When using large datasets and searching for any associations/ clusters across populations, you almost always…

Great recommendation Tom. I am close to pulling the trigger on this. Test drove the 14' and 15' models, unbelievable steering feel and handling. Motortrend went gagga over this car in their tests and comparos. Only thing I would add is that the cabin interior is not Audi/MB/Lexus quality, and there is considerable…

The particulars of Mr Carson aside (and there are surely lots of those we could get into), I like reminding my students that MDs are not research scientists and therefore their proclamations about science and tech, outside of their usually very narrow expertise, should be taken with the same credulity as you would…

Yes, very marginal dad humor, but I gotta say, Bill Gates would get a pass from me for any ill-conceived silliness much more egregious than this. Hard for me to be too judgmental towards a guy who will likely go down as one of the most effective philanthropists in history

HA! I missed your comment, I just posted that this was a pretty good single leg take-down/ transition to side mount

That was an excellent single leg take-down/ transition to side mount.

I hear you. I do not mean to besmirch the reputation of the Danes. Present day Denmark is an amazing country to be admired and that had to come from somewhere. And to their credit, and you probably know this, there is currently a renewed reckoning in Denmark regarding the extent of collaboration with the German…

I agree with your general sentiment, but to pick Denmark as a symbol of resistance in occupied Europe is an odd choice for me. The Danes were handled with kid gloves by the Germans because they did not put up much of a fight. Denmark was first a protectorate before being considred occupied. Almost all of their…

As a child developmentalist and social science researcher, I am awfully tempted to kill the rest of my morning and post a very long breakdown of both this study and an abbreviated history of this line of research. But I’ll just drop in 2 things because I generally respect Gizmodo’s audience and want to contribute…