The Abode of McThag

The main issue of how too many modern cars are put together in terms of working on them is this removal of several assemblies to access the ...

Science is.  Science is often not what you want it to be, because the facts don't care. I strive, desperately, to not be a bigot in my b...

Just as every bit of matter is a chemical... If you're not eating it raw, it's been processed. Cooking is a process. Harvesting is a...

Wind and solar are what you put up with for energy production when you don't have gas, oil and nuclear power. It's not an alternativ...

Joe Huffman posted. At issue is: Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It’s not that the...

Watch this: If you're skeptical, remember that the plastics industry is the result of finding a use for the crud left over from refining...

The Boy's  psychiatrist ordered a round of genetic testing for him. She did a bad job of explaining why, but we have the results in and....

Science, being well known for settling things for all time... Wait. Science keeps on marching on and making your reference materials obsolet...

Widner's did an article about how shooting out the tires doesn't work like Hollywood, and thus not like how most people think it sho...

In Engineering School they didn't bother with the why of gyroscopic precession.  They just covered the what, because that's all we n...

The entire world was on the gold standard in the 16th and 17th centuries. One of the reasons for the golden age of piracy was the massive de...

"Once is happenstance.  Twice is coincidence.  The third time it's enemy action." -- A Goldfinger  For the second time a trans...

I finally remembered that I wanted to see what the explanation for there being no hole in the ozone later over the arctic when nearly all of...

1902  – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York. This should be a national holiday. h/t Mostly Cajun 

It's been well covered. Longer version:

 I was watching a video about gigantopithecus. It's a 9' tall, 650ish lb. orangutan.  Maybe 700 lb. Being the geek I am, I calculate...

I have to admit, I am bit torn. I definitely don't want a nation that has "Death to America" rallies to have a nuclear device....

 The biggest land dinosaur compared with the largest land mammal.  With a paleontologist for scale in the bottom left.

Ammo To Go did the testing so you don't have to! tldr: Your magazine springs are going to outlast both the gun and the magazine body. Th...

As an almost psychology graduate, some aspects of research make me wonder if I could have gotten the grant and done the study. I was reading...