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How to make a radio transmitter out of coconuts
As a person who has actually been stranded on a desert island, I think I am qualified to write about this. Have you ever been asked to name a book you could take with you if you knew you were going to be stranded on a desert island? Granted, this makes a lot more sense…
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There’s gold in them thar fish
I had to tell my friend Orville today to go get a haircut, so I could test my fish theory. “But I don’t need a haircut,” he protested. Sheesh, he sounded a lot like I did when I was a teenager and my father used to say: “Why don’t you go and get a haircut,…
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Message from an angel
One of the first hints that I was never going to be a high-achiever came when I was three-and-a-half years old and stuffed a bead up my nose. Oh, I could pretend it was actually my first scientific experiment — trying to measure the velocity of a bead under its own momentum in the alien environment…
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Rebel with a pause
My computer keyboard has 102 keys and I have no idea what at least 20 of them are supposed to do. What, for instance, does the Pause button do? When curiosity got the better of me yesterday and I hit it, nothing at all seemed to happen. It just, well, paused. At first. When I…
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Easter earthlings and funny bunnies
Human explorers have been known to bring back some really useful things from strange lands. Okay, well, not all of them. All Neil Armstrong brought back to earth in 1969 were some moon rocks that were not all that different from the rocks in your average Earth rockscape. But what about Marco Polo?He is said…
