Swans on Tea

Well, Art is busy, so life imitates a cartoon instead.
The other night on the Colbert Report, he interviewed George Johnson, author of The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (which I’ve mentioned before), and the idea for which was stolen from Chad. The interview was standard Colbert schtick, and Johnson doesn’t really explain what’s going [...]

Make Ethanol in Your Own Backyard
A Silicon Valley start-up called E-Fuel is showing exactly how ethanol can live up to its name as “the people´s fuel.” The company recently announced that it will soon start selling a home ethanol system, the E-Fuel 100 MicoFueler, which will allow anyone to make ethanol from sugar, water, yeast, [...]

YES
Zach Feinstein declares for the NBA draft. It’s free. The deadline for “early entry” declarations is 60 days prior to the draft (which is June 26), so if anyone desires to go this route, it’s too late for this year. (One has to wonder if it will remain free once [...]

A while back I bought a radio-controlled helicopter to fly around the apartment — it isn’t something designed to withstand much more than the gentlest of breezes — and broke it in almost record time. A harsh learning curve. I strayed into enemy airspace smashed into the lights above the dining-area table and [...]