Burrell, I have to accept the same when it comes to CJ. Cooking is my thing and dishes are supposed to be his. But when he forgets, I try to just do them and not get upset about it. Less stress on both of us. He does a bunch of chores, including cleaning the litter box. I'm happy to pick up the slack on dishes and not have to deal with the litter box.

Same deal at our house, SuziQ.

I am the person who can't do all of the dishes all of the time, most of the time. I hope my future spouse isn't also that person!

Yeah. The formatting sucks. You have to scroll pretty far before you realized that it is an index to a bunch of posts rather than just a single post. It is a true conceptual index, so that most posts are linked are under more than one category. The idea is that any time you encounter a talking point you can just scroll down the index to you find something pretty close to what the denier is saying and the click onto a refutation that will probably be broad enough to rebut the particular version. Sometimes you will have to search a little, but its never taken me more than a few tries to find refutations.

The ring of fire helicopter is awesome.

I've got to go airplane geek here for a moment and share two of my favorite prototype aircraft from the 40s.

The XP-55 Curtiss Ascender [link]

And the Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose [link]

Neither made it to production, but they looked cool not making it.

The XP-55 Curtiss Ascender [link]

That was a cool-looking airplane, but not really a great design due to stability issues. I think the Japanese Shinden (another canard fighter) was better, but the war ended before it could enter production: [link]

Also, I think the Shinden looks slightly better.

Oh, and here is a really short answer to the specific 1998 point.

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That is actually from a shorter site doing the same thing "How to talk to a Climate Skeptic" does.

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Oh, and I was surprised that the Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose had a 2,300 hp engine but a top speed of only 381 mph. The P-38, P-47 and P-51 (the main USAAF fighters of the time) were all faster. Pro'lly why the thing never entered production.

I've read higher figures for the XP-54's speed, but it and it's engine were definitely flawed. Still, very cool looking.

For people who have had bedbugs and/or think they might have them: DIY Bedbug Detector Interesting. They say CO2 is better at attracting them than heat.

Also:

Studies from early in the last century may not describe today’s bedbugs well, says entomologist Andrea Polanco-Pinzón of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Older generations of bedbugs weren’t resistant to pesticides and lived in tougher environments: houses without central heating.

On the bright side though, Polanco-Pinzón reported at the meeting that her survival tests found that a pesticide-resistant strain she collected from Richmond, Va., lived at most two months without feeding. That record, set by the fifth stage of the immature bugs, falls far short of the year and a half reported in the old literature.