If you’re picturing high-quality video service, forget it—this is “poorly designed” technology, according to the report’s authors, plagued with complaints about crappy connections
Cecil Adams
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Are there any other options besides chopsticks and ‘Western’ cutlery?
Plenty of cultures haven’t gotten around to creating their own answer to silverware because they haven’t needed to
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Is the West kidding itself about the good intentions of Islam?
Is the West kidding itself about the good intentions of Islam? On one hand many followers of Islam, especially in the West, claim it’s a religion of peace. On the […]
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Which country has the freest speech laws?
In the eyes of much of the world the United States’ conception of free speech comes across as rather extreme
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Why are gas price increases so large and sudden?
Why are increases in gas prices often so abrupt and large, while decreases are small and incremental? Where I live, we’ve had two six- to ten-cent increases in the last […]
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Is it logical to believe we have been visited by aliens?
Things have changed since the pre-Close Encounters era, though
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Do men really think about sex every six seconds?
How often did everyone else think about sex, though? For starters, what do we mean by men and women anyway?
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Why are Navy SEALs currently the “it” special forces?
Though Team Six may get the marquee coverage, there are in fact, as you suggest, a bunch of special-ops forces in the field today
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Is it true that quantum physics proves the universe is conscious?
In other words, stars, or anyway some stars, choose to move.
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What has been the leading cause of death for humans?
Our task is complicated by the fact that mortality statistics prior to 1900 are hopelessly inadequate
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How did bread come about?
Bread is surely among the most obvious food products on earth
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Self-Driving Cars: Closer than you think
So will driverless vehicles really be on the road in two or three years? Heck, they’re there now: as of March, 27 developers were operating a total of 180 autonomous cars on California highways.