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Amazingly, there are these cool things called "references" and "further reading" at the bottom of that Wikipedia article. Feel free to take the time to read those and come up with the same distilled content as the Wikipedia article.

Contrary to what you think you saw, the Mazda was not stopped. It was probably going 60-70 miles an hour, which means that the motorcycle hit it at a relative speed of between 70-80 MPH. It just looked like it was standing still relative to the motorcycle because the motorcycle was going so damn fast.

It's been called Cleopatra's Needle since it was unearthed in her time and set up again in Alexandria. But, yeah, it's really Thutmose III's Needle. I've been in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, incidentally. And his mom's place (Hatshepsut's Temple) on the other side of the ridge.

It was patented in 1933, but David Sarnoff/RCA successfully lobbied the FCC to keep FM out of the picture, because it would have cost him a ton of money. The inventor (Armstrong) killed himself in 1954.http://www.damninteresting.com/the-tragic-bir…

Yes, but that's whole communities doing it. They wouldn't have the disconnectedness gap that this family had, because the whole community has that gap.

"It is not for us to remove them or relocate them even if they are in jeopardy."

It would be a good idea, at least temporarily until the unrest is over. Else you end up with the Library at Alexandria.

Give the recent unrest in Egypt, which included a break-in and destruction of artifacts in the Cairo Museum, as well as statements made by some in the religious leadership about destroying the pyramids, Egyptian antiquities might be safer somewhere outside of Egypt.

"In some ways maybe it's more brutal that we've insulated ourselves from that. We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in…

It's been done.

Still the best version of an infomercial ever:

My parents are still using my 2002 iLamp. Works great.

When you exercise certain parts of your brain, that causes increased activity (electrical activity, blood flow, etc), and that can cause the brain to grow more tissue. Seems pretty simple to me.

Um, what? Helium isn't flammable...

Get off my lawn.

This would fit right in with Heavy Metal.

"It is likelier," someone named Antony David writes in response, "that you would end up looking like a featureless bag of fat and fluid with porous bones and spindly attachments where your limbs and head used to be because human bodies would be free to expand in any direction."

Yes, but what if that already describes…

"patience and attention to detail"

She only chose to go along to London, Sydney, Nice, and Rome. And then we had kids and her travel days were over for a while...

Wow. You might want to take that Physics For Poets class again, broseph.