Become Your Raddest Self When You Buy This 1980s Mercedes-Benz S-Class With Gullwing Doors There are few cars more of-an-era than a C126 Mercedes-Benz equipped with a tuner body kit, BBS mesh wheels, and Styling Garage’s one-of-57 ‘Gullwing’ conversion. This white-over-grey machine, which Styling Garage dubbed a “Marbella” after the coastal city in Southern Spain, is the epitome of 1980s style excess. It… Read more…

Breaking: Elon Musk Has No Idea How The Speed Of Light Or Satellite Communication Works During a meeting with the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, an internal NASA working crew dedicated to supporting missions to Marsincluded a pitch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to deploy Starlink satellites around the red planet to create “Marslink.” Having a thick layer of satellites around Mars would certainly… Read more…

Code Acts in Education: Critical Edtech Gets a Conference Code Acts in Education: Critical Edtech Gets a Conference Critical perspectives on educational technology (edtech) are more important than ever. Just in recent days, I’ve seen a lengthy post about the “buttonification” of AI in education, as new interfaces make it possible for educators to design and create lessons “at the push of …

Election 2024: No Mandate for Extremism  In the wake of a deeply consequential election, The State of Belief this week unpacks the electoral role played by religious communities, exploring how various faith groups influenced voter turnout and political coalitions. Guests Skye Perryman, Katherine Stewart, Adelle Banks and Bob Smietana join host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to share …

Cool Badges, Irrelevant Automakers And The Worst Things You’ve Ever Done To Your Car In This Week’s QOTD Roundup It can be challenging to gauge the relevance of any automaker, but you can generally feel it. For example, how many recent Jaguars do you see on the road? When was the last time you’ve seen anyone get excited for a Chrysler that wasn’t a 300? You know, the Chrysler 300, the vehicle famous for resembling a car… Read more…

‘Carrot Kissing’ Llamas At The Airport! It’s This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Since The Boring Company began operating in 2017 it has announced massive car tunnel projects all over the world, including Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Jose, Chicago, San Bernardino and even Sydney, Australia. There have been discussions about hundreds more, but the Texas-based tunnel company has, so far, only… Read more…

A Free Fiat, A Fancy Ultima GTR And A Manual Plymouth Colt Vista In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup The Fiat 500e is small, electric and starts a little under $35,000. It’s also more spacious than the old 500e and comes with significantly more range. Unfortunately for Fiat, there aren’t a lot of places in the U.S. where its small size is an advantage, so it’s a little surprising that Fiat decided to offer it… Read more…

Rudy Giuliani’s Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week’s News Roundup Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000 miles per business day.… Read more…

The Fuel Door Location Debate Rages In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup More than 1.7 million packages go missing in America every day, whether they get lost in transit or are swiped from your stoop while you’re out and about. Not wanting to add to that stat, a Tesla Cybertruck driver chased after a porch pirate who allegedly swiped one of their packages, forcing them off the road and… Read more…

Bishops must grapple with abortion and synodality at fall meeting (RNS) — The meeting of the USCCB will be the first chance for the bishops to talk and plan after the October synod of bishops and the November election. The post Bishops must grapple with abortion and synodality at fall meeting appeared first on RNS.

Iran executes Jewish man despite family pleas and attempts to pay restitution (RNS) — Arvin Ghahremani’s family claims he killed a Muslim in self-defense, but Iranian law distinguishes in such matters between Muslims and non-Muslims, frequently discriminating against the latter. The post Iran executes Jewish man despite family pleas and attempts to pay restitution appeared first on RNS.

Will ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ be a Christian crossover miracle? (RNS) — ‘We live in very divided times. … But something about Christmas has always united people,’ said ‘The Chosen’ creator Dallas Jenkins, who directed the film, in theaters Nov. 8. The post Will ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ be a Christian crossover miracle? appeared first on RNS.

Dear Mormons, our history of worrying about ‘impure blood’ doesn’t end well (RNS) — Latter-day Saints are once again on the wrong side of justice, the wrong side of the gospel and the wrong side of history. The post Dear Mormons, our history of worrying about ‘impure blood’ doesn’t end well appeared first on RNS.

Anxious, grieving, elated: Clergy prepare to preach into the post-election whirlwind (RNS) — Preachers are turning to webinars, directories of appropriate liturgies and moral support from each other as they determine how to address their congregants. The post Anxious, grieving, elated: Clergy prepare to preach into the post-election whirlwind appeared first on RNS.

Tesla Cybertruck Is Now Available To Lease, If You Can Stomach The High Monthly Payments Tesla’s Cybertruck has been outselling rivals like the Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning in recent months and now there are even more ways to get your hexagon truck on with lease deals announced Friday. Read more…

The Time For Reason Has Ended. Buy A Heavily Depreciated V10, Why Not? Reason and logic are out. Emotions are in. So I say throw caution to the wind and buy this heavily depreciated 2008 Audi S6 over on Cars & Bids. You know, the good one with the V10. Read more…

Off-Road Hellcat 4×4 Fixes Every Problem You Had With The Dodge Challenger Dodge sold the Challenger for 15 years and never gave it a full redesign. Depsite that, it sold well for a coupe and eventually proved even more popular than the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro. Over the years, Dodge made a long series of improvements and offered the Challenger with more special editions than many… Read more…

Bentley’s First EV Will Be Its Smallest Car Ever, And More Luxury Brands Should Follow Suit Bentley has pushed back its plans to have its entire lineup be fully electric only from 2030 to 2035, but the brand is still working hard on its first EV production model, which will be revealed in 2026 and go on sale in 2027. Not only will the new electric SUV be in a segment that Bentley has never competed in… Read more…

‘A Real Pain’ is a real triumph (RNS) — Jesse Eisenberg has created the most poignant film about Jewish identity that you will see this year. The post ‘A Real Pain’ is a real triumph appeared first on RNS.

Driver Leads Police On Mile-Long Reverse Car Chase In Allegedly Stolen Hyundai Police in Michigan got an unusual view of a high-speed chase last month when a reportedly stolen Hyundai tried to evade capture in a reverse chase Read more…