# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=341&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 342 --- ## [Trying to connect behavior to evolution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-connect-behavior-to-evolution/1016566)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2025, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-connect-behavior-to-evolution/1016566 "2025-04-07T06:09:53Z")
I have started a few threads on this in the past that did not go over too well. This is a slightly different angle. I am more interested in genetic changes as opposed to genetic expression. However I would like to draw a… --- ## [Pronouncing "Content", a woman's name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-content-a-womans-name/1016670 "2025-04-07T02:15:34Z")
My G-G-G-G Grandmother was Content Barnes. I have never heard this name spoken. Is it pronounced conTENT like the “satisfied” word or CONtent? --- ## [Color me bland!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-me-bland/1016678)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-me-bland/1016678 "2025-04-07T00:47:35Z")
What is the blandest food I can eat? Backstory: I’ve been having stomach issues. This is not good for a brittle diabetic. I fly around on my glucose levels like a trapeze artist. I can’t be barfing. It throws every… --- ## [Have EU countries moved to ban Amazon over Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-eu-countries-moved-to-ban-amazon-over-trump/1016663)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-eu-countries-moved-to-ban-amazon-over-trump/1016663 "2025-04-07T00:09:46Z")
Have EU countries moved to ban Amazon over Trump? As I recall, Bezos has helped to fund Trump. Have there been/will there be blocks for Amazon, internationally? --- ## [What movie or tv show is the song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-or-tv-show-is-the-song-don-t-dream-it-s-over-from/1016714)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-or-tv-show-is-the-song-don-t-dream-it-s-over-from/1016714 "2025-04-06T23:58:05Z")
I understand it was a popular song in the 1980s, my lost decade for music, but I’m familiar with it from the soundtrack to something I’ve watched many times. What am I thinking of? Opening myself up here to ridicule for… --- ## [I'm a co-author of a journal article](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-co-author-of-a-journal-article/963937)
**Author:** [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-co-author-of-a-journal-article/963937 "2025-04-06T22:18:41Z")
I’m pretty excited about it. There are 9 co-authors of this paper and the primary did about 90% of the writing, but there are 1 or 2 sentences of mine in it! So an odd thing. Ever since it came out I’ve been getting r… --- ## [Could someone identify this classical tune please?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-identify-this-classical-tune-please/1016706)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-identify-this-classical-tune-please/1016706 "2025-04-06T22:06:37Z")
Yes. Me again. Could someone tell me where this tune comes from. It’s a famous classical piece. https://onlinesequencer.net/4568745 Thanks ! --- ## [Invention of the telephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invention-of-the-telephone/1015525)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 178\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invention-of-the-telephone/1015525 "2025-04-06T21:58:50Z")
American mythology holds that Alexander Graham Bell was the one and only inventor of the telephone. But history is full of examples of inventions that happened in multiple places at about the same time. Was he really the… --- ## [My computer mouse is acting up - what happened?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-computer-mouse-is-acting-up-what-happened/1016665)
**Author:** [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-computer-mouse-is-acting-up-what-happened/1016665 "2025-04-06T21:40:43Z")
I have an ASUS laptop which has worked well for several years. Today the mouse (cable connected) would not move the screen icon at all - although the mouse wheel worked. Also clicking the mouse worked too. I used the c… --- ## [Why the global rise of autocracy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-global-rise-of-autocracy/1016584)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-global-rise-of-autocracy/1016584 "2025-04-06T19:07:36Z")
US, Turkey, Hungary, Venezuela, (partly) Poland, Serbia, of course Russia, El Salvador\*, Argentine\*, partly Germany and Italy as well all make/made a huge turn towards autocracy (A.). I understand El Salvador and Argent… --- ## [What to do for a watch that has been overwound](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-for-a-watch-that-has-been-overwound/1016607)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-for-a-watch-that-has-been-overwound/1016607 "2025-04-06T15:04:29Z")
I’m putting this here instead of Factual Answers, because there is going to be more than one answer in general, one of which will probably be my solution, and actually, more than one might work, and some spitballing of “… --- ## [Is a rifle more accurate than an SMG in equivalent barrel length?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-rifle-more-accurate-than-an-smg-in-equivalent-barrel-length/1016560)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-rifle-more-accurate-than-an-smg-in-equivalent-barrel-length/1016560 "2025-04-06T03:58:45Z")
For example let’s say you have a short barreled AR-15 style rifle, 7 inch barrel. You can have it in its default 5.56mm or change out the upper with a conversion kit to make it 9mm. At close to mid range, which round w… --- ## [Pans, stones, pots. Bread Extremism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pans-stones-pots-bread-extremism/1016611)
**Author:** [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pans-stones-pots-bread-extremism/1016611 "2025-04-06T02:11:58Z")
From an off topic post I made to one of @Beckdawrek’s post… I am an amateur baker. I have baked bread in ovens - electric, coal and wood-fire. I’ve baked bread in a tin can inside the coals of a bonfire. I’ve baked in a… --- ## [Do you routinely Turn off lights at Home?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-routinely-turn-off-lights-at-home/1016618)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-routinely-turn-off-lights-at-home/1016618 "2025-04-05T19:00:01Z")
Simple Question. I’m curious if attitudes have changed with energy saving lighting. Do you routinely Turn off lights at Home? poll --- ## [Doper parents, how would you respond to this situation (14-year-old daughter refuses to see male doctor)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-how-would-you-respond-to-this-situation-14-year-old-daughter-refuses-to-see-male-doctor/1016352)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 165\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-how-would-you-respond-to-this-situation-14-year-old-daughter-refuses-to-see-male-doctor/1016352 "2025-04-05T17:08:08Z")
This is not my problem; I have no kids and never have. But I do like to read advice columns because I like to read about other people’s problems. Anyway, a parent wrote in to Slate’s Care & Feeding. The article is behin… --- ## [How would an apportioned Federal direct tax work today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-an-apportioned-federal-direct-tax-work-today/1016632)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-an-apportioned-federal-direct-tax-work-today/1016632 "2025-04-05T16:46:16Z")
That is, outside of the exception for income tax carved out by the Sixteenth Amendment. In particular I’m unclear how the apportionment part would work. If the federal government were to actually pass a head tax for exam… --- ## [Advent of Code 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advent-of-code-2024/1010675)
**Author:** [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advent-of-code-2024/1010675 "2025-04-05T15:08:03Z")
Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of programming challenges held from December 1st through December 25th each year. The first event was in 2015, and I’ve been participating since 2020. I thought this year it would be … --- ## [Incredibly cheap things you do to save questionable money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-cheap-things-you-do-to-save-questionable-money/1016404)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-cheap-things-you-do-to-save-questionable-money/1016404 "2025-04-05T14:32:54Z")
Inspired by the squeezing toothpaste tube thread. Yes, I press toothpaste tubes against the edge of the bathroom counter to squeeze out every last molecule of toothpaste. Why? Mostly because I was raised in a household r… --- ## [What should I do about my mom's bank accounts? (She is suddenly erratic)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-about-my-moms-bank-accounts-she-is-suddenly-erratic/1016488)
**Author:** [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-about-my-moms-bank-accounts-she-is-suddenly-erratic/1016488 "2025-04-05T14:10:10Z")
As briefly and impersonally as possible, need advice on a banking crisis. I’m an only child. My mom (age 80, in another state 2000 miles away) has online access to a checking account which is jointly in both our names, a… --- ## [Worst named scientific concepts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-named-scientific-concepts/1016316)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 221\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-named-scientific-concepts/1016316 "2025-04-05T14:07:12Z")
I enjoy astronomy, and it’s interesting how many terms are poorly-named. Often it’s due to being coined by a detractor of a model, or the history of how the phenomenon was first observed. …I’m not dissing astronomers, s… --- ## [Inhuman Beat-Box ability](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhuman-beat-box-ability/1016656)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inhuman-beat-box-ability/1016656 "2025-04-05T13:35:26Z")
Observe these two talented…“singers”…? Beatbox Legend vs Beatbox Pro #beatbox - YouTube How is it possible to have such sound be generated by a human vocal apparatus? :star\_struck: --- ## [Los Angeles County reaches $4 billion agreement to settle sexual abuse claims at juvenile facilities](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-county-reaches-4-billion-agreement-to-settle-sexual-abuse-claims-at-juvenile-facilities/1016643)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-county-reaches-4-billion-agreement-to-settle-sexual-abuse-claims-at-juvenile-facilities/1016643 "2025-04-05T12:24:27Z")
Thousands of men and women came forward to say they had been molested or raped by probation officials decades ago while incarcerated as children in the county’s sprawling network of juvenile halls and camps. Thousand… --- ## [Works about the dangers of AI/Robots but in Human hands?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-about-the-dangers-of-ai-robots-but-in-human-hands/1016233)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-about-the-dangers-of-ai-robots-but-in-human-hands/1016233 "2025-04-05T12:07:35Z")
I was listening to a movie podcast today bring up the classical idea of the dangers of AI, mainly that it will grow sentience and oppress/kill off humanity eventually, as seen in classic Sci-Fi works like Terminator, Sta… --- ## [Simpsons: How can a ten-year old boy retire?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-how-can-a-ten-year-old-boy-retire/1010624)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-how-can-a-ten-year-old-boy-retire/1010624 "2025-04-05T07:33:36Z")
Milhouse, that is. Okay, so Milhouse isn’t retiring but Pamela Hayden, his voice actor, is. At age 70, she’s decided to drop the mike. Show says that they will re-cast the role. --- ## [Torn skin on the bottom of my toe - owie!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/torn-skin-on-the-bottom-of-my-toe-owie/1015498)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/torn-skin-on-the-bottom-of-my-toe-owie/1015498 "2025-04-05T06:52:00Z")
Got home from work last night and realized as I was winding down that my right foot was hurting more than usual. I put in amywhere from 8-12 miles at my job every day so I’m used to some soreness after a long day, but th… --- ## [Origin of a word](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-word/2636)
**Author:** [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-word/2636 "2025-04-05T05:45:07Z")
This may be a nonsense word, but it’s one my mother used often; the spelling is phonetic. fa-ka-SHAT-a (all the a’s are short). When Mother thought her hair was not fixed properly, she would say “I look like a fakashata… --- ## [Your Top Ten books of 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-ten-books-of-2020/929387)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-ten-books-of-2020/929387 "2025-04-05T00:49:42Z")
Last year’s thread: Your Top Ten books of 2019 Doesn’t matter when they were published, but you read 'em and loved 'em in 2020. And please tell us, in a sentence or two, why you liked 'em. I’ll post mine a little later… --- ## [Big bang questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-questions/1015442)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-bang-questions/1015442 "2025-04-05T00:30:08Z")
I guess I’m ignoring the whole “space itself is expanding” thing. My first question: was there a point in time and space where you could have seen the expansion of matter rushing towards you? This postulates that gravit… --- ## [What horror villains would you want to see in situations from other horror films?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-horror-villains-would-you-want-to-see-in-situations-from-other-horror-films/1016472)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-horror-villains-would-you-want-to-see-in-situations-from-other-horror-films/1016472 "2025-04-04T23:50:31Z")
What horror villains would you want to see in situations from other horror films? How do you think they would fare? My examples: Art the Clown in The Purge Jason in Army of Darkness Mick Taylor in The Hunt Otis Dri… --- ## [Michael Hurley, the Now-Late](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-hurley-the-now-late/1016653)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-hurley-the-now-late/1016653 "2025-04-04T23:44:12Z")
Michael Hurley’s plainspoken surrealism is no more. He was a guy who didn’t much care about a music career, just someone who would get up on a stage and strum a few quiet chords, but people wouldn’t believe the stuff he… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=340&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=342&state=tracking)