Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

The AR-15 is a firearm that people tend to characterize at a distance. Its shape is all too predictable, its name all-pervading and its modularity encourages bold assertions, most of which have little to do with the reality of the platform. Technical literacy is important here since the smallest misunderstanding...

The single most harmful myth about home-defense ammunition is this: the fact that selecting a less lethal load will cause fewer hits to be more dangerous. In actual rooms using actual wall materials, a shot that is not even hit by the target can still go through several barriers...

Interstellar objects never make appointments. They arrive in the solar system in rapid, bright, and frequently star-strewn directions and are hard to distinguish between them and background brightnesses. The recent case of 3I/ATLAS demonstrated how fast the astronomical community can switch once a candidate is found but it also revealed...