Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

The evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, in the quest to find it, hardly ever comes in a one-note, cinematic form. It is hoarded up as anomalies, too much infrared light here, a suspicious molecule in the atmosphere there, and as novel ways of making technologies sharper what is considered a...

It seems easy to pick a defensive handgun caliber until the tradeoffs accumulate: recoil and speed, capacity and bullet weight, and compact carry and shootability. There is less disparity between a wide variety of popular options through modern ammo, yet the fundamentals remain the rulers. Whether a round can consistently...

Over the past 50 years the most identifiable rifles of the Marine Corps have not been about style but rather hard necessities: the ability to move faster, to see more and to put rounds where they count. Through-line is also similar, despite the change in materials, optics and ergonomics. It...