These Are The Worst Gas Mileages You’ve Ever Seen Last week, we asked readers what’s the worst gas mileage they’ve ever seen. From towing with SUVs both old and new, to sport compacts off-road toys, all of these are a stark reminder of just how bad vehicles can be for the environment and our wallets. These were the thirstiest of our reader’s responses. Read more…

GM Needs $350 Million Of Taxpayer Money Or It Might Raze Michigan’s Tallest Building Detroit’s Renaissance Center, home of General Motors, is an immediately recognizable part of the city’s skyline. It’s also nearly empty and only getting emptier, but GM has plans for what to do with the building after its offices have fully moved out. It wants to renovate three of the center’s towers, and demolish the… Read more…

The Porsche Design Luxury Skyscraper In Miami Is Sinking Much Faster Than Expected The Porsche Design Tower in Miami, built in 2014, is one of 35 luxury beachfront properties along the coast that a recent University of Miami study has found to have sunk by up to three inches into the unstable sandy earth. Three inches might not seem like a lot, but this is much faster than most experts anticipated.… Read more…

NHTSA Mandates Rear Seat Belt Reminders And Enhanced Warnings For Front Seats I can’t believe I’m writing this in the year 2024, but in case y’all forgot, seat belts save lives. It’s pretty black and white: Over half of all vehicle occupant fatalities in 2022 were people who weren’t wearing a seat belt. It simply boggles my mind whenever I see folks driving or riding in a car without wearing… Read more…

Teacher in a Strange Land: In Praise of Social Studies Teacher in a Strange Land: In Praise of Social Studies In my long and checkered career as a classroom teacher, I taught instrumental and vocal music, mathematics, ESL and the occasional oddball middle school class necessitated by the fact that, as a (qualified) music teacher, my music classes could contractually be huge—so I could …

A Christmas miracle in Syria (RNS) — Assad was the King Herod of our time. Like Herod, he slaughtered the innocent. The post A Christmas miracle in Syria appeared first on RNS.

Religious traditions can help with holiday blues, mental health experts say (RNS) — ‘During the holidays, we are practicing relational spirituality and engaging in our awakened brain,’ said one professor of psychology. The post Religious traditions can help with holiday blues, mental health experts say appeared first on RNS.

Trump’s cabinet selections represent an unusual slice of American religious life (RNS) — Trump’s cabinet selection includes everything from pastors to Catholic converts to one nominee who credits their spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist. The post Trump’s cabinet selections represent an unusual slice of American religious life appeared first on RNS.

Spiritual Literacy Month is one couple’s legacy of right intention (RNS) — Mary Ann Brussat and her husband, Frederic, introduced ‘Spiritual Literacy Month’ back in the 1990s. They’re still at it. The post Spiritual Literacy Month is one couple’s legacy of right intention appeared first on RNS.

Warframe 1999’s Motorcycle Is A Fascinating Mix Of Retro And Modern Design Warframe’s much-anticipated 1999 expansion dropped last week, and Tenno all around the world are being introduced to something new: ‘90s sportbikes. You can keep your railjacks and k-drives, there’s a retro motorcycle now available — or, is it a modern one? Both? Neither? Read more…

3 dead, others injured in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes offered no details about the victims but said other people were wounded at Abundant Life Christian School, a K-12 school with about 390 students. The post 3 dead, others injured in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin appeared first on RNS.

How Automakers Went From Boom To Bust After The Pandemic Back when the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, wreaking havoc across the world, automakers enjoyed record-high profits as they raised prices because of a shortage of new cars. Now though, that honeymoon period is over, and these companies aren’t in a position to recover without a lot of pain. Read more…

Digital License Plates Can Be Hacked To Dodge Tolls And Tickets Digital license plates have been around for several years, promising to save states money shipping metal plates while also dragging their respective departments of motor vehicles into the 21st century. Except Wired reports they can also be hacked to change the plate number at will, allowing drivers to avoid paying… Read more…

Official Reason For New Jersey Drone Sightings Is As Likely As It Is Boring It looks as if the Feds have finally given us an official reason for the mystery sightings of drones over New Jersey and neighboring states over the last few weeks and damn if it isn’t boring. Read more…

Rallying A Mercedes Is The Classy Way To Go Fast Mercedes-Benz isn’t exactly known for its rally heritage, but for a brief moment in the late 1970s the company decided to throw some effort into the sport by building a pair of 450 SLC 5-liter Rallye. It actually won a few events and might have carried on with a bit more luck. With more development, the five-liter… Read more…

These Are The Dumbest Things You’ve Heard People Say About Cars Last week we asked the audience the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard someone say about cars. Cars are complex machines that many of us have to interact with on a daily basis, so it’s unsurprising that there’s a lot of misunderstanding and straight up misinformation about them. Though often the dumbest things we hear… Read more…

80-MPH Airships Could Be The Future Of Sustainable Luxury Air Travel When people think of airships, they either picture the Goodyear blimp circling the skies of major sports events or the Hindenburg going up in flames. Multiple start-ups are looking to up the notion that dirigibles are an archaic form of transportation. The enterprises claim that rigid airships will herald an era of… Read more…

Liberty Walk Is In The Keyboard Business Now We may all love Liberty Walk’sF40 bodykit for the Autozam AZ-1, but the company offers a kit for the genuine article Ferrari F40 too — a kit that Liberty Walk has now decided to honor with a mechanical keyboard collab. I know, that sounds absurd, but it’s actually more fitting than you might think. Read more…

Janresseger: Voucher Explosion Threatens Funding for Public Schools that Serve 90% of Ohio Students Janresseger: Voucher Explosion Threatens Funding for Public Schools that Serve 90% of Ohio Students Ohio’s outrageous voucher growth this year didn’t quite cost the state a billion dollars, as public school educators and parents had feared, but the amount the state diverted to vouchers for the 2023-2024 school year came dangerously…

‘Wicked’: A midrash on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (RNS) — Not surprisingly, many midrashim — these imagined Torah backstories — are about women. The post ‘Wicked’: A midrash on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ appeared first on RNS.