I'm just finishing up Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife. He covers the pursuit of fusion power from the early awareness of radioactivity, through the construction of fission bombs, onward to fusion research (magnetic confinement, inertial -- laser -- confinement) and fringe science, such as cold fusi...

There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one clic...

Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… HOMEMADE PLASMA CUTTER "You can get most of your parts for free or very cheap off of old cars, stoves, furnaces,microwaves, dryers or any appliance that you have access too. I'm not saying to use your ladies things, if you do and you get ...

Ah, Stork Job. You started as the most depressing writers' room day ever -- "Hey, let's research Eastern European orphanage scams" -- and turned into our classic Mission: Impossible homage. This is the fun of doing Leverage. Bank Robbery bottle show, high-rise rappelling, classic Sting horse race he...

Somehow I Missed This Meme So, it being a new year, I thought I'd do it now: 100 things I've done - items I have done are in bold 1. Started your own blog. As others have written: DUH! 2. Slept under the stars. 3. Played in a band. No musical talent whatsoever. 4. Visited Hawaii. Four times, but all...

Divorce courts should start with presumption of joint physical custody Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, is a central figure in the new Newsweek article Not Your Dad's Divorce: How changes in child support laws, and a push by fathers for equal time, are transforming the...

The libertarian economics professor writes: "A fairly good proxy for whether a statement is subjective is the presence of words such as should and ought. This lesson is closed by telling students that it is not being suggested that they purge their vocabulary of subjective terms such as should and o...

The following is bits and pieces and cut and paste of my time upon the net since ending my experiments for the global energy crisis april 2007. NO QUESTION MY words have gotten harsh as i live in world of cyber bullying where many people hide behind terminals only to provoke and abuse others such as...

Michigan State cranked it up right from the first Orlando practice on Friday, with Mark Dantonio ordering some dreaded "half gassers" -- the width of the football field and back -- to test his team's conditioning.    After a few feeble efforts, Dantonio was none too happy. ...

  ENERGY IS THE KEY TO CIVILIZATION- don't believe me- go live just one day in the woods- the valuable resource is getting dry as India and china want to live a little like the west-cant blame them- who I do blame is being on this net for so long as everyone uses their own arrogance and negativ...