100 Miles Per Gallon? Hypermilers Do It All The Time

Hypermilers practice such unorthodox techniques as coasting for blocks with their car’s engine turned off, driving far below speed limits on the freeway, pumping up tire pressure far beyond car and tire makers’ recommendations and carefully manipulating the gas pedal to avoid fuel-burning excess.

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What One Pilot Would Really Like to Say from the Cockpit

“Before we take off, I would like to apologize on behalf of this and every airline for the hassle you just endured at the security checkpoint. As is patently obvious to any reasonable person, the humiliating shoe removals, liquids ban, and pointy-object confiscations do little to make us safer….”

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Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?

Right now, you’re probably happy that you have the vast resources of the entire Internet at your fingertips. It’s a feeling of power, isn’t it? All that information, all that content, right there for you whenever you want it? While the Internet allows us to get lots of information very quickly, it also encourages us not to look at it very closely.

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Why Athletes Go Broke

Sixty Percent of NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement. Why do these Professional  athletes go       broke? Brian Cuban thinks he knows why, read it in his blog…

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The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time

These are rock’s greatest guitar moments because of what’s inside the notes: hunger, fury, despair and joy, often all at once. You hear the blues, gospel and rockabilly that came before, transformed by the need to say something new and loud, right away. Rock & roll has been the sound of independence for half a century.

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