# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=765&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 766 --- ## [Intergalactic Voids and Repulsive Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intergalactic-voids-and-repulsive-gravity/988378)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intergalactic-voids-and-repulsive-gravity/988378 "2023-08-12T13:08:13Z")
There is astronomic evidence of vast stretches of mostly massless space on cosmically large scales known as Voids. Void (astronomy) - Wikipedia Under certain conditions, gravity can be repulsive (apparently, responsibl… --- ## [Putting the 'devil fish' on the menu](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410 "2023-08-12T12:20:51Z")
Pez diablo: “devil fish.” That’s what locals in the Mexican state of Tabasco call the armored catfish that has invaded their waters. Also known as suckermouths, the species is popular with aquarium owners because the… --- ## [Scam e-mails about antivirus software: Why always McAfee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scam-e-mails-about-antivirus-software-why-always-mcafee/988375)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scam-e-mails-about-antivirus-software-why-always-mcafee/988375 "2023-08-12T12:14:14Z")
I regularly get e-mails about the upcoming expiry of my antivirus software, urging me to take action to stay protected. The e-mails are easily recognisable as scam or at least phishing attempts. But one thing that puzzle… --- ## [If A Credible Person Confesses To Murder, But There's No Evidence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-credible-person-confesses-to-murder-but-theres-no-evidence/987933)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-credible-person-confesses-to-murder-but-theres-no-evidence/987933 "2023-08-12T12:11:13Z")
In an audiobook I’m listening to, a middle-aged, well-respected family man admits that, when he was 17, he murdered his girlfriend in a fit of rage. He got away with it (there was no physical evidence at the crime scene,… --- ## [Matching monitor colors on desktop Mac](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matching-monitor-colors-on-desktop-mac/987982)
**Author:** [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matching-monitor-colors-on-desktop-mac/987982 "2023-08-12T11:26:06Z")
I’ve got an iMac and a new Apple Studio Display. Both are 5K “retina” displays, but there is a noticeable color difference between the two. White, in particular, is not the same - one is (to my eyes, at least) a nice neu… --- ## [I want to start a thread, but I think I will need moderator support](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-start-a-thread-but-i-think-i-will-need-moderator-support/980583)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 156\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-start-a-thread-but-i-think-i-will-need-moderator-support/980583 "2023-08-12T10:00:23Z")
I would like to start a thread in Politics And Elections titled “Why are you currently a Republican?”. I do not want snark, mocking, parody etc. from those that are not Republicans, I do not want “I used to be a Republi… --- ## [Happy National Film Score Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-national-film-score-day/982074)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-national-film-score-day/982074 "2023-04-04T17:40:15Z")
Just heard it announced on Buffalo’s NPR station. They launched their celebration with the theme from Jurassic Park. --- ## [Do you think Citizen Kane is a good story?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-citizen-kane-is-a-good-story/987564)
**Author:** [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-citizen-kane-is-a-good-story/987564 "2023-07-25T19:11:39Z")
Citizen Kane. Best movie ever to some, boring to others. Let’s set aside the movie itself, any technical advancements on screen are not up for discussion here. Also set aside any talk of it being based on William Rand… --- ## [On the dispersion of broken glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-dispersion-of-broken-glass/988409)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-dispersion-of-broken-glass/988409 "2023-08-12T06:12:46Z")
I am always amazed that if a glass or jar tips off the counter and breaks on the floor, I am still finding bits of glass 20 feet away days later. --- ## [Idiocracy - your thoughts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiocracy-your-thoughts/988283)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiocracy-your-thoughts/988283 "2023-08-12T00:31:20Z")
In Idiocracy, do you believe there exists, somewhere, reasonably-intelligent people in large numbers that still make society happen? Like, my first thought is there must be because Airplanes, TVs, and monster trucks don… --- ## [Windows update changes user files](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-update-changes-user-files/988336)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-update-changes-user-files/988336 "2023-08-12T00:19:58Z")
This is embarrassing, because an am an IT guy. After Windows update, my local account was like new; just created, all saved files, bookmarks, passwords were gone. Thunderbird had no account associated with it. Upon a G… --- ## [Trump - possible Wire Fraud indictment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-possible-wire-fraud-indictment/988382)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-possible-wire-fraud-indictment/988382 "2023-08-11T22:30:52Z")
Special Counsel, Jack Smith, had a panoply of options/mountain of improprieties to dig through in order to decide if, and with what, to charge Donald Trump. Paring it down to the nub – choosing the charges that best fit… --- ## [Art You Love, But Can't Recommend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-you-love-but-cant-recommend/988302)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-you-love-but-cant-recommend/988302 "2023-08-11T22:02:22Z")
What art do you love but can’t recommend to anyone else, because you don’t think anyone else around you would enjoy it? Maybe your affection for it is founded in something that nobody else will experience, like my love f… --- ## [New Physics in Muon Experiment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-physics-in-muon-experiment/988373)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-physics-in-muon-experiment/988373 "2023-08-11T21:16:22Z")
This article says: “The kind of precision that these people have managed to attain is just staggering,” said Dan Hooper, a theoretical cosmologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the work. “There … --- ## [Anyone heard this theory on Jimmy Hoffa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-heard-this-theory-on-jimmy-hoffa/514943)
**Author:** [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-heard-this-theory-on-jimmy-hoffa/514943 "2023-08-11T21:08:05Z")
There is a town by where i work that is home to a cheese factory, F&A Dairy This area of Wisconsin is notorious for being home to rum runners in the 30s and being home to many gangsters later on, and this cheese factory… --- ## [Got fired- owe employer password info, etc...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-fired-owe-employer-password-info-etc/987730)
**Author:** [@ttsfixit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ttsfixit)\ **Replies:** 162\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-fired-owe-employer-password-info-etc/987730 "2023-08-11T20:35:36Z")
Long time reader, first time poster, putting IMHO due to potential legal questions. My wife got fired last week for insubordination. Some background, my wife worked for a small real estate agency (the owner was the only… --- ## [Resolved, SDMB should discourage use of “star-bellied sneetch”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408 "2023-08-11T20:09:35Z")
This time of division and polarization must end. In my youth, I was a baseball. We must move forward, not backward, upwards, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! I’m so tired of Doper… --- ## [What was the relationship between Siward and Sweyn Forkbeard and their dealings with Scotland under King Macbethad mac Findláech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-relationship-between-siward-and-sweyn-forkbeard-and-their-dealings-with-scotland-under-king-macbethad-mac-findlaech/988413)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-relationship-between-siward-and-sweyn-forkbeard-and-their-dealings-with-scotland-under-king-macbethad-mac-findlaech/988413 "2023-08-11T20:06:42Z")
What was the relationship between Siward and Sweyn Forkbeard and their dealings with Scotland under King Macbethad mac Findláech ? --- ## [Things about actors that make you say, 'Wow.'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-about-actors-that-make-you-say-wow/988086)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-about-actors-that-make-you-say-wow/988086 "2023-08-11T19:55:25Z")
Every so often, I come upon a factoid that makes me say, ‘Wow.’ The latest concerns child actor Donald Haynes. We’re watching Skippy (1931) and I mentioned to my wife that he was in The Little Rascals. I looked up up … --- ## [How are houses numbered in US residential streets?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-houses-numbered-in-us-residential-streets/983911)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-houses-numbered-in-us-residential-streets/983911 "2023-08-11T19:46:02Z")
Simple question, inspired by watching US shows and movies that depict houses that are numbered in four and sometimes 5 figures. In Aus, for a very long road, you might get up to the high hundreds (eg 898 Warrigal Rd, War… --- ## [Eldest living person referenced in a song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eldest-living-person-referenced-in-a-song/988331)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eldest-living-person-referenced-in-a-song/988331 "2023-08-11T19:39:34Z")
(did my bestest to search for related threads) Just before I was heading out for a run today, I saw some headline that had the words “tribute to Willie Mays” and for a sec I was “oh no!” but it was just about naming som… --- ## [How often did you fly as a child?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-did-you-fly-as-a-child/987959)
**Author:** [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-did-you-fly-as-a-child/987959 "2023-08-11T18:26:38Z")
Inspired by a recent discussion of air travel in the old days, I’m curious how often people flew commercially during their childhood. For me, not much. Our vacations were road trips. I took a few flights as a baby, but… --- ## [We caught an Amazonian Giant Centipede in our vacation house](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-caught-an-amazonian-giant-centipede-in-our-vacation-house/982249)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-caught-an-amazonian-giant-centipede-in-our-vacation-house/982249 "2023-08-11T17:31:38Z")
We are currently on a two-week holiday on the island of Saint Martin / Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. It’s a lovely destination: great beaches, good climate, excellent food, friendly people. Also some … interesting wild… --- ## [Hijack - Idris Elba - AppleTV](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-idris-elba-appletv/988014)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-idris-elba-appletv/988014 "2023-08-11T16:57:36Z")
Hijack on AppleTV just dropped the final episode of the series. I thought it was well acted and entertaining. Basically a 7 hour flight from Dubai to London is hijacked and one of the passengers is deal negotiator Sam … --- ## [Name for this latching mechanism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-this-latching-mechanism/988366)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-for-this-latching-mechanism/988366 "2023-08-11T16:07:21Z")
We hired a carpenter to do various improvements. He just finished work on our shed, putting on a metal roof, vinyl siding, new gutters. When he finished he told us he didn’t want to have ugly hardware on the doors so h… --- ## [Biff Rose expires](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-rose-expires/987828)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-rose-expires/987828 "2023-08-11T15:47:06Z")
Who is Biff Rose? Oh, he’s the guy who wrote that song that David Bowie and Tiny Tim covered, right? Well, more than that. An up-and-coming songwriter, a damn good piano player, a singer with a voice you couldn’t take s… --- ## [Anecdotard: A word I must use more often. Your fave under-used words?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anecdotard-a-word-i-must-use-more-often-your-fave-under-used-words/988255)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anecdotard-a-word-i-must-use-more-often-your-fave-under-used-words/988255 "2023-08-11T14:49:59Z")
Things I learned today: An ANECDOTARD is a teller of foolish or pointless anecdotes. The term ‘anecdotage’ dates back to the early 19th century. ‘Anecdotard’ itself appears shortly after that. For some, it refers onl… --- ## [What ought US policy be towards US citizens jailed abroad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ought-us-policy-be-towards-us-citizens-jailed-abroad/968008)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ought-us-policy-be-towards-us-citizens-jailed-abroad/968008 "2023-08-11T12:51:55Z")
For some time, I’ve been seeing news articles about a WNBA player who is on trial in Russia for drug charges. This morning, I read another article about 3 Americans detained in Venezuela.. In the past, there have been m… --- ## [Marvel vs DC. You can only choose one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-vs-dc-you-can-only-choose-one/988125)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-vs-dc-you-can-only-choose-one/988125 "2023-08-11T11:34:28Z")
The aliens have landed and are making us poor earthlings decide which franchise will disappear forever. You must vote as to which one you want to keep. The other will never be seen again. Which are you voting to keep? p… --- ## [Why aren't front clasp bras more popular?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-front-clasp-bras-more-popular/982693)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-front-clasp-bras-more-popular/982693 "2023-08-11T11:07:26Z")
I am not a woman but have known many over the years and most of them did the thing where you put your bra on backwards to reach the clasp and slide it backwards into position on their their back. Front clasp bras would … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=764&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=766&state=muted)