Benjamin Hoff. Cause for optimism, unlike his later "The Te of Piglet".

Absolutely. The parallels to more-recent events are striking/depressing...

Finally, a graph showing volume rather than area!

I wonder how us folks on the autism spectrum would measure,.. and how an individual's reading changes under different circumstances.

This would be a good one - students could see the further changes which have happened in the five years since it was written.

Lots of interesting/useful stories as well, but the department names are a treasure.

If only "Jumping to Conclusions" was an Olympic event!

Guess what: those jumper wires can break internally but still look okay on the outside. I found *that* out on a 402 I was taught how to program in the late 1960s. Took a while to find the bug...

I'd speculate that the Prius drivers were after Maximum MPG Bragging Rights, pedestrians be damned...

My '73 RX3 would produce deafening backfires when the throttle was suddenly closed after being wide open. IIRC my '77 RX3SP didn't so much. The best gas mileage I got from either was something like 21.5 miles/US gal. But smooth and (for the era) powerful? You bet! Of course, an unmuffled racing engine was brutally loud: the Chimney Rock (NC) Hillclimb had a fellow named John Finger whose car might've been audible in Charlotte...

Does that count include uranium miners who sicken and die?

...the link in the article now points to a blank page. Try this instead: http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1966/66-8.ZZZ/gauge.html

...become "suspicious activity", if the drone can't get a good look at you?

These folks have something which is easier to control.

Looks like this project was the inspiration for the PXL-2000...