That’s an excellent, readable introduction! I’ll mention one weakness, though:

Wikipedia says you are right.

I took that to mean that Sam’s ambivalence is itself a taboo feeling. There shouldn’t be any “on the other hand” about a 29-year-old potentially screwing your daughter. But yeah, I don’t understand how that could be exhilarating.

The flying steering wheel of death needs to be in a movie...

We can try to make it better. That’s part of the nation’s (and more specifically, liberals’) DNA: “...in Order to form a more perfect Union...”

Live and learn. I’ve never been to a Shake Shack, and based on “shack” in the name I assumed it was fast food.

When you visit a new gym, go by feel. If you could do eight reps on the 55 pin at your old gym, find a weight where you can do eight reps on the new machine.

As expected, most commenters ignore the research findings, including the context and scope, so that they can focus on their own personal experience.

Reading elsewhere on the Web, I’m thinking it could be you’re right.

I’m old, with the unimportant compensation that my birth year is the same year the Aston Martin DB5 was introduced.

As someone with East Asian ancestry, I can give you one reason: it appears that a lot of people don’t know what East Asian means. Chinese and Japanese people are considered East Asian.

motorcycles counter-steer while at traveling speeds (over 10-15 mph), so to turn right, you actually pull back on the left handle bar.

Two peripheral thoughts:

Funny you mention that--I didn’t realize it, but it’s true for me too.

It’s a beautiful kit.

What excellent finds this go-round! All of them look worthwhile, if we leave out pricing. 

Cool! I used to run a research lab, and a couple of my students over the years were people with vision impairment (PwVI is the term used in the literature). They taught me a lot. Bradley Brownell’s comment about audio is exactly right: PwVI have to rely on their senses other than vision, and a badly designed audio…

Both are in a challenging environment, but usually the author has no real purpose for being there beyond his own personal whimsy. Even when the “trek” is sponsored or “raising awareness”, it still reads like a vanity project.

This is me: I need to look at the speedometer sometimes to gauge my speed on some roads. (One road on the military base I work on has a 20mph speed limit for at least a mile.)

I don’t think the ratio of seat-size to person-size in coach has been that large since... well, as long as I can remember. In the U.S. at least.