Losing your stomach feeling - Straight Dope You know that feeling when you go over a hill fast in a car or in a roller coaster? According to BBC Science: "In that moment, your organs don’t ‘fall’ at the same rate as the rest of your body You then experience a moment of near-weightlessness, a bit like what an astronaut experiences in space Your intestines and stomach are loosely suspended, so when your body quickly moves
Active shooter in Detroit, Michigan, at synagogue called Temple Israel Live updates: Police in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, responding to Police are responding to reports of a potential active shooter at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said Follow for live updates
Erasers on pencils - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Not sure if this is really a GQ but we’ll try it here Today’s Writer’s Almanac had the following: On this day in 1858, Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia patented the first pencil to have an attached eraser The eraser-tipped pencil is still something of an American phenomenon; most European pencils are still eraserless Can this be true? With an eraser on the pencil being so handy, so
Why are some days hotter than others? - Straight Dope Yesterday in my city, the high reached 94 Today, the high was 103 Tomorrow, it’s expected to “cool off” back in to the mid 90s Why? What changed? Not the distance of the earth to the sun, or the amount of sunshine we received There was no noticeable wind or rain or anything like that over this time period So what causes temperature to change so much from one day to the next?
Desperate Housewives 1 22 - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Wow! Complete turn-around from last week They had me at, “Question: Is there a Black man under your bed?” What’s the deal with this promotion that Lynette and Tom were talking about and vowed never to mention again? Has it been bought up before? The cat fight at the church could have used more torn clothing, but good enough
In Cloistered Convents, How Do Nuns Confess Their Sins? I watched a movie last night that took place in a cloistered convent, where the nuns took great pains to avoid ever having contact with anyone outside of their abbey, including having their food and supplies delivered to a dropoff point from which a nun would later pick them up when the delivery guy was far away In such a convent, how would a nun give her confessions? Like, does a priest come
What was this execution device called? - Straight Dope At 18:30 of this episode of the ridiculously absurd show Speed Racer Spridle (WTF kind of name is that?) is in peril of getting cut in half by some execution device I seem to recall seeing such a device in a museum once What was the name of this device?