Every Geek worth the moniker has inhaled helium from a toy balloon and proceeded to amuse everyone with the cartoon-like high pitch of his voice. I’ve been doing it almost forever and especially now that I have grandchildren (six and one in the oven). Now, there’s a new Geek inhalation toy: “anti-helium,” better known as [...]
Wow! Talk about extreme. I can’t think of anything more extreme than falling from 60 miles up at 2500 miles per hour (unless it’s falling out of orbit from 150 miles up at close to 18,000 miles per hour). This article in Popular Science describes work being done to develop a spacesuit that would allow [...]
Twenty-nine years ago (according to the date on my drawing), I designed a roofing system that could be retrofit to any home and which would provide up to one-half of winter heating needs on sunny days. At the same time, I designed a geothermal heating/cooling system that would provide a constant stream of air into [...]