Every year it’s the same thing: You know you’ve got to get a gift for those difficult people on your Christmas list, but — despite the fact you’ve known them forever — you have no idea what to get. Generally, after weeks of trying to forget about...
If the modern automobile had a status on Facebook, it would undoubtedly be “It’s complicated.” With their computer-controlled fuel injection systems, continuously variable transmissions and three-phase four-pole AC induction motors, the days when every Tom, Dick or Harry could wrench on their ride seem long gone. So...
Paid parking lots: Those slabs of asphalt in the middle of cities with narrow spaces and often extortionate rates are pretty much a necessary evil if you own a car and spend any time in the city. But what’s their side of it like? Why even run...
Parenting a pet, no matter what kind, can be a frustrating and bewildering experience. Animals can’t tell you what they want and need (directly, at least), so we’re here to help you answer any questions you have about your favorite companion — whether they be furry, slimy,...
Anyone who’s unintentionally carried a normal-sized tube of toothpaste through TSA, only to be treated like an international drug smuggler, knows that airplanes have strange and ambiguous rules when it comes to what you can — and categorically cannot — bring on them. Your average traveler abides...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: 1. Across 2. Mohair 3. Origin 4. Knight 5. Poetic 6. Doubts Mystery keyword: SMOKED ROMPECABEZA DOS: SOLUTION: A=2, B=7, C=9, D=3, E=1, F=6, G=8, H=4, J=5 Note: The answers to Rompecabeza Dos...
A lot of people can apparently take this in stride; my own girlfriend claims to “love” the heat, which is unfortunate given that I want to commiserate with someone over how miserable being hot is. All my life, I’ve felt like I “run hot.” Growing up in...
If the modern automobile had a status on Facebook, it would undoubtedly be “It’s complicated.” With their computer-controlled fuel injection systems, continuously variable transmissions and three-phase four-pole AC induction motors, the days when every Tom, Dick or Harry could wrench on their ride seem long gone. So...
Battery scientists do the extremely important work of figuring out sustainable ways to store energy to make things last longer, help protect people during natural disasters and basically ensure the planet can keep functioning. I do the extremely important work of disrupting that essential research by emailing...
People are strange, sang a man who went on to die in a Parisian bathtub. He was right, though — for example, many of us enjoy throwing perfectly good (well, kinda) coins into elegantly-designed puddles of water. But what compels us to hurl all our loose change...
Got stuck? No problem. Here are the answers to this month’s puzzles: ROMPECABEZA UNO: 1. Four 2. Tuba 3. Axle 4. Acid ROMPECABEZA DOS:
Somebody (surely, not you, as that would be impossible) passed some gas, and now everyone in the room is violently waving their hands in front of their noses in a desperate attempt to escape the noxious fumes. But does performing that metacarpal dance actually reduce your exposure...