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The average lightening bolt during a thunderstorm has sufficiently high voltage to trigger a variety of nuclear reactions (by accelerating electrons to atom smashing velocities). In particular an average strike of 900 megavolts is enough to accelerate electrons fast enough to react with...

Don't let that stop you. The world could use a few more tantrums.

Get there by yourself, decide there's too many people, then go home immediately. That way you don't have to submit to the torture of crowds, and still get the attendance points from your social contacts. If you are a minor with no access to personal transportation, beg your parent(s) and/or...

I also vote for defenestrate.

Muryo sensei should revive as a zombie and continue drawing until the sun explodes.

Parenting such an important job though, it really should come with training.

I skeptical that anything noticeable will happen for users, but I feel bad for the employees. Mr. Musk seems like a rather imperious boss. If nothing else, the former shareholders are happy because he bought twitter for well over its market price.

I'm not sure how valuable something like a control lock on an oven would even be. Kids are kinda more clever than most grownups want to give them credit for, and would probably be able to unlock any appliance they really wanted to. I personally would emphasize teaching them to use such...

Rather, people who get grades that high don't do it because they are good at math, or history, or writing, but instead because they are good at school. Being good at school only qualifies you for the kind of manufacturing jobs that stopped existing about 50 years ago: Get simple orders in the...

Just remember that a GPA of 3.6~4.0 actually hurts your job prospects. I had a job recruiter come in to my accounting class and say he hates hiring folks who have high grades because they always quit, do terrible at their jobs despite having factual knowledge, have no sense of time management...

That is now an option you can pick.

The most popular tag would probably be "romantic subplot" if romantic subplots weren't so common that most people don't even bother tagging stories with it.

It snowed today. Kinda fun to see this late in spring.

"It's definitely the saturated fat making you overweight" -- soda companies in the 90s

Remember that the rewards from a relationship more or less match the amount of effort both (or all) partners put in. Also, loving someone does not mean you should trust them, and finding them untrustworthy (or unreliable) does not mean it is wrong to love them.

Apparently there's a lot of variation around the timing, intensity, and duration of when people feel most helpless under stress. Please feel free to share how you experience stress also.

It is something I still have complex and jealous feelings about, after beautifying and fetishizing it during my angsty teenage years. In the end, suicide is unnecessary because humans are perfectly mortal already. As a grownup, I have found the patience to wait my turn with dignity.

1) The MC falls past the moral event horizon. If they start stalking and killing their antagonists, or start killing challengers (even just bandits) they could effortlessly restrain, then I can never like or empathize with that character again. This is the most common reason I drop a story. 2)...

While I have a math degree, I never figured I'd be able to hold a job anyway. Interestingly I use it far more frequently than I expected, but only as a hobby. There in no degree in the universe that will make McDonalds want me as a dishwasher.

It is simply too early to judge the merit of the boyfriend's claim. They have to ask why the gay friend chose to be the host before the boyfriend and the boyfriend's fiancé can judge the merit of the ancient being's claim.