WINE CORK WRAPPED IN PAPER TOWELS, ELECTRICAL TAPE & A CONDOM

The good news is they function as a truck bed protector exactly as advertised, adding structural integrity to the truck bed to reduce impact damage, and also functioning to protect against scratching and marring.

I would pay good money to see a video in which Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Phil Plait commented seriously on the potential uses of magic in science and engineering.

I feel like the education at Hogwarts would leave you wholly unprepared to run your own business, lol.

I’m no Potterverse expert, but it seems obvious that some portion of the wizarding population must go back into the muggle world after finishing school, either because they are the children of muggles (or half-muggle relationships), or because they are interested in things that the wizarding world doesn’t do (like…

I think the spirit of collaboration that the scientific world enjoys isn’t prevalent in the wizarding world. Snape invented new spells and potions, but never shared them. Similarly, the school books tend to be written by individuals who are masters of some subject rather than a collaboration of multiple authors. With…

My question was always “What did wizards do for work as adults?” Aside from working in the MoM, there were very few other jobs in the wizarding world, and none of them were things that going to Hogworts prepared you for. If you didn’t want to become a bureaucrat or a shopkeeper, what did you do with your life? Did the…

Also, if Snape is so good at new potion recipies, why didn’t he teach kids the new recipes?

Wizarding grad school would be the best. I would gladly turn in my PhD in Chemistry for a PhD in potions. Though there seems to be a very finite number of posts, but at least you wouldn’t have to adjunct.

I think the education issue abuts the “Weird Wizard Economy” issues, as well. Like, Snape is a Potions Master, but he doesn’t seem to have an ‘apprentice’ or anyone following him around to learn more about Potions. So where else do you learn that stuff? Are there Potions factories? Research labs set up somewhere? Who…

It feels like they never moved beyond the apprentice and guild system. To the point that all knowledge is held in the guilds, so that what the school system teaches remains stagnant to protect guild secrets.

This has annoyed me to no end. None of the teachers have any kind of qualifications required to teach children. Voldemort turned up in the past and expected to have a serious shot at taking a post. Hagrid, who didn’t even finish secondary school, became a teacher as well. Maybe the Defense Against the Dark Arts post…

Luna Lovegood’s mother was killed experimenting, and knowledge that that is a common outcome of innovation would limit it.

That’s what hit me while I was reading the new book - if Hogwarts is basically wizard high school, how on earth do they specialize after that? Are most wizarding professions dependent on apprenticeships for training? How do they learn more advanced skills than those bestowed to them as minors? Does the entire…

What do Wizards do after school? It really bothers me that there is (seemingly) no form of higher education in the Wizarding world. Although this might explain why there isn't a whole lot of innovation when it comes to magic. Someone pointed out that in Half-Blood Prince a decades old potion book is apparently just as…

So, that style of “pencil” boat was developed around the 1840's and since the first Olympic racing didn’t take place until 1900. Perhaps you can take your un-called-for rage out somewhere it might be useful.

Are we running out of honest people? Why would anyone trust her to run a lab ever again?

No, the thing I want to ban remains the same: Humans driving.

Injecting himself with morphine to deal with the pain of his dislocated hip.

Is that not wallpaper?