With all of the talk about battery-powered automobiles and hybrid power, you would think that the standard automobile engine is near the end of its 100-year-old life… Nothing could be further from the truth. An interesting article in Popular Mechanics
Month: July 2008
Do You Ever Wonder?
Do you ever wonder… Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin? Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouth closed? Why you don’t ever see the headline ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’? Why ‘abbreviated’ is such a long
If People Bought Cars Like They Buy Computers
From Yahoo Humor… General Motors doesn’t have a “help line” for people who don’t know how to drive, because people don’t buy cars like they buy computers… but imagine if they did: Call No. 1 HELPLINE: “General Motors Helpline, how
How Things Work: GPS
The Global Positioning System is becoming ubiquitous in many automobiles… a great article in PC Magazine explains how GPS works.
Crazy in Love
A friend sent me this article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal, “Is It Love or is It Mental Illness?” Recent studies of brain scans show that being in love causes changes in the brain that are strikingly similar
Spread the Stupidity
This is a good one from Fred Sokol: Only in America ….do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. Only
The Enemy of My Enemy is My…
A Commentary magazine article indicates that an unnamed Arab state [Saudi Arabia?] has declared that it “won’t oppose” an Israeli military strike against Iran. According to the article, this state fears growing Iranian influence in the region, particularly among its
Simple Rules for the New Generation
A great article in Tooling and Production about simple lessons for today’s kids… The author talked about “how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality” that has set them up for failure in
Missy Tours Aullwood Gardens
Missy enjoyed some of our temporary “empty nester” status to take a tour of the Aullwood Gardens…