Shanker Blog: A Legislator’s Lessons From Fifth Graders Shanker Blog: A Legislator’s Lessons From Fifth Graders Our guest author is Massachusetts State Senator Becca Rausch. Earlier this year, I walked into one of the elementary schools in my district to visit with the fifth grade –- all 300 of them. (For those who might not work with young people routinely, that is a lot of fifth grade…

Hey Cadillac, Put The Hummer EV Motors In A Lyriq, What Are Ya, Chicken? The long and storied tradition of American hot rodding more or less boils down to “put big car motor in smaller car” and for over 70 years it’s been working like a charm. There’s no reason the old-school way of making a muscle car can’t work in the EV era, too. General Motors is finally working its way toward building… Read more…

Florida Car Dealership Sold A Volvo With Defective Airbags And Seat Belts, Twice Sometimes car dealerships can’t help but be sacks of shit. Over the summer, a Florida man bought two used Volvos from a used car dealership, it wasn’t until after the deal went through that he found out both cars had been in accidents. Closer inspection from independent mechanics shows that both cars had non-functionin… Read more…

Tesla Using ‘Full Self-Driving’ Hits Deer Without Slowing, Doesn’t Stop Tesla’s approach to automotive autonomy is a unique one: Rather than using pesky sensors, which cost money, the company has instead decided to rely only on the output from the car’s cameras. Its computers analyze every pixel, crunch through tons of data, and then apparently decide to just plow into deer and keep on… Read more…

Thieves Steal 20 Honda Civic Type Rs From Australian Port The Honda Civic Type R is the kind of car that was created in a lab to embarrass the kind of gatekeeper who still insists on calling it “wrong-wheel drive.” No, you can’t get it with all-wheel drive like you can in the Toyota GR Corolla, but it’s also so fun to drive, you probably won’t care. Unfortunately for… Read more…

Step Inside China’s Secretive New Space Station China has had astronauts in space since June 2012, when the Shenzhou 10 mission docked with the Tiangong-1 prototype space station for the first time. Since then, the country’s presence in orbit has grown and now it operates a station that’s roughly a fifth of the size of the International Space Station. Read more…

Swing-state priest teaches ancient techniques for surviving today’s political turmoil LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Each week in the program, Peck gives a talk and then introduces participants to a classic prayer to meditate on. One week it was the Lord’s Prayer. Future sessions will include the use of mantras such as in the Hindu tradition and the Metta Prayer from Buddhist practice. The post Swing-state priest teaches ancient technique…

My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools – why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough (The Conversation) — From the 19th to 20th century, Native children were physically removed from their homes and put into boarding schools. A scholar asks if that was genocide? The post My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools – why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough appeared first on RNS.

German Dealer Will Charge Rich Goofballs $2.5 Million Markup For The Ferrari That Sounds Like Ass Ferrari’s not-particularly rare F80 hybrid hypercar was already going to be among the most expensive cars to ever be sold new, but one German dealership told its rich folk customers that they were going to have to pay the cost to be the boss. If they want a $3.9M Ferrari F80, they’re going to have to plop down another… Read more…

Deep Sea Submarine Divers Breathe Helium And It Makes Them Sound Ridiculous Submarines are pretty cool bits of kit. They can offer researchers an unrivaled view of the ocean floor, help search out missing wrecks beneath the waves and can even ferry about the rich and famous, with mixed results. While all that is very cool, there’s one downside to riding in a deep sea submarine: you might end… Read more…

What Was The First Fun Car You Ever Owned? Like many of you, I had big dreams for my first car when I was growing up. Obviously, it would be rear-wheel drive and manual, because how could it not be? I was a car enthusiast, dammit. Except by the time I got my driver’s license and had enough money to look at buying a car, I ended up with my dad’s Kia Spectra. It… Read more…

I Think I’m Done With Adventure Motorcycling I put my beloved BMW F800GS up for sale last week. I bought it nearly a year and a half ago for the same reason anyone buys an adventure bike: That dream of one day getting out there, away from everything, just you and your steel horse against the lush, green world. Read more…

Check Out The Coolest Design Details On Scout’s New Electric Truck And SUV Concepts The reborn Volkswagen-owned Scout Motors unveiled its Terra pickup and Traveler SUV conceptslast week;a pair of new EVs that will be available with a unique range-extender powertrain when they enter production in South Carolina in 2027. I was able to get up close and personal with the Terra and Traveler following… Read more…

Polestar Warns Biden’s Chinese Car Rules Would ‘Effectively Prohibit’ Its Sales U.S. Sales Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 29, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Stanceworks Is Building The F40 That Ferrari Never Had The Courage To Build I watch a lot of YouTube. Probably too much, if I’m honest with you. In all the hours I’ve spent burning my braincells watching people on the internet build cool cars, however, I’ve never seen a project car as cool as what Mike Burroughs is doing on his Stanceworks channel. Not only is Mike putting his incredible… Read more…

These Are The Worst American Cars Ever Made America has made some phenomenal cars over the years and there’s no denying this country’s influence on the global automotive landscape. But not every creation to roll off the country’s automotive production lines has been a celebrated success, some have actually been pretty awful. Read more…

Six-Speed Manual-Only 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera T Has A Wood Shift Knob And Plaid Seats Back with the 991 generation of 911 nearly a decade ago, Porsche introduced the 911 Carrera T, a lightweight driver-focused version of the base Carrera with all the performance goodies you’d want, and the 992.1 generation got a Carrera T variant as well. Now after a brief hiatus Porsche is bringing the Carrera T back… Read more…

Lucid Gravity Has 100+ Miles More Range Than Most Competitors For Less Money, Orders Open Next Week Lucid is just about ready to start production of its second act,the Gravity crossover that was unveiled last year, and we’re now getting a better idea of what it’ll cost. I’ve got some good news folks: the price ain’t bad. I mean, it’s not cheap, but for what you’re getting, it’s a very decent value especially when… Read more…

Locals Use Semi Truck Trailers To Replace Bridge Washed Away By Hurricane Helene Folks in a remote part of northern Tennessee took matters into their own hands and built a temporary bridge out of semi trailers after the floods following Hurricane Helene last month destroyed the last one. Read more…

2025 Mercedes-Benz GLC350e Is A Great Plug-In Hybrid That Made Me Wish I Was In An EV It’s now been 15 years since the first plug-in hybrids started coming on the market, and we’re finally getting PHEVs with genuinely usable electric ranges of more than just a few miles. The PHEV with the longest EV range you can buy right now is a bit surprising, partially because it’s just so… normal. Taking the… Read more…