Back then they actually used injections. I remember reading back in the 60's or 70's that the exotic dancer Carol Doda would get a raise each time she got another injection.

Great! Most of my life has been devoted to searching for clams in the dark.

Hair: the camera swirling around Renn Woods as she rings every last note out of "Age of Aquarius" is a sensory overload.

Are the clams generating light or only controlling the colors they reflect? From my quick skim of the journal abstract, it seems to be suggesting the latter.

I wonder if the autopilot system would have still opted to pass that truck if it had caught up to it 15 seconds later. That would have put it abreast of the semi on the far side of the overpass, where it’s almost certain there was an on-ramp.

Honeywell offers a couple of models that you refill by pouring into the top: you can go around the house watering them with a watering can or milk jug instead of pulling out the reservoir, hauling its dripping carcass to the kitchen (or tub), turning it upside down, and holding it in place as it fills (and gets…

Honeywell offers a couple of models that you refill by pouring into the top: you can go around the house watering…

Years ago I saw a PBS documentary on flood disasters that said people always assume that flood victims merely drown, but they're often actually battered and broken by the force of the water. Not a way I'd like to go.

If you search the aforementioned sites you'll find a number of other pics of her in and out of that blue dress (in fact I think if you search her name and "blue dress" you'll hit the motherlode).

Her name is alternately, Anna or Tanya Song and you can find her at tubegalore, xhamster, and myriad other websites of the adult variety.

Right, because all the internal combustion-based infrastructure, and the vehicles that depend upon it, sprung up overnight.

I help people troubleshoot computer problems and I often make the distinction between a test and an affirmation of faith. For example jumping up and down on a tree branch to prove it can hold your weight is an affirmation of faith: if you assume that the very bad thing that could happen won’t happen, and you don’t…

If the world learned that an extinction event was imminent in X months or Y years I wonder if any of us would have the ability to determine what we did in the meantime or would events (and people realizing they have only a short time to give in to their basest instincts and plenty of motivation to do so) sweep us away…

Sounds like your parents were the ones who probably needed to strap it on.

30 years ago a friend who kept track of aviation matters told me that airliner wings need to be flexible and that some commercial liner from around that era originally had wings that were so rigid that one came off in flight (but safely flew and landed with one wing).

Thanks, I'll give them a read.

When time permits I will try to track down the information you referenced. Perhaps it will set my mind at ease, though your reference to the “char layer” goes to one of my concerns: no matter how much steel’s strength might become compromised in the heat of a fire, a steel member isn’t likely to provide further fuel…

In the late 60’s and early 70’s, after decades of denying that tobacco was harmful, cigarette companies finally conceded that there were some risks and came out with “reduced tar” products, which served the purpose of resetting the debate back to square one (“sure, those old cigs were bad for you, but these have less…

It's as though some deranged movie producer, looking to make a sequel to "The Towering Inferno", got the brilliant idea of mashing up Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory just so he could film it's eventual demise.

“Although wood is combustible it actually tends to perform better in fire.”

This might be the election cycle in which it truly is too dangerous for any Democrat or independent to sit out, regardless of whether or not their candidate wins the nomination.