I accidentally googled up about an experiment from a year or so ago involving making salt-water combustible through the use of radio waves (see here) which is fascinating and has some interesting possibilities for fictional application, but the problem - one problem - is that it takes more energy to do it than you can get out of it, so as one green ( Read more... )

(Then you have to do something about it.)

This is what I get for not having TV here: I miss stuff like this until someone blogs about it.

This is like the Abercrombie & Fitch nastiness combined with the Great Ten ugliness, with the added noxiousness that it's aimed at a youth audienceGranted, they got criticized recently in the blogosphere for ( Read more... )

but I assume that most of you already know smoking is bad for your health and either don't smoke or choose to do so anyway cognizant of the risks. If you do, I hope at least that none of you smokes in bed, because that's a major cause of house fires and fire-related fatalities ( Read more... )

If you believe that Members of group X are innately bad - that is to say, intrinsically worse than all other humans, whether the claim be that each individual is flawed, or that a higher percentage is flawed - by virtue of the subgroup into which they are born - then yes, you are a bigot ( Read more... )