Take a pile of old beer bottles. If you have a bumnch of rocks, add a bucket of sawdust, some sand and a few lumps of clay and you are almost ready to go on your own pizza oven. Go to the hardware store and get a bunch of fire-proove bricks. Bring a few friends [...]
After wine, now also health benfits from coffee [I KNEW living of wine, peanuts coffee and donusts could not be all bad ]. A study has shown that caffein consumption may reduce the risk on Parkinsons disease, reduce the spread of liver cancer and help prevent gall stones. Last but not least, it may help [...]
Remember Star Trek? And how they use a tricorder to determine whether a planet is safe, check for illness and verify the light spectrum? Well.. Future is now. Dr Peter Jensen built a tricorder while a graduate student studying neural computation and cognitive modelling at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He started in Spring [...]
With spring starting life around us, it is time to look at the garden. What will go where, do I need to buy seed or is all growing as expected and can we sit back and relax. In the latter situation.. Have you already looked at your house? Most houses have a roof which is [...]
As this site gets more well-known, requests for specific tutorials start arriving in the mailbox. This is the first tutorial upon request. How to use one single file, as content or a footer for different websites. Now online
Maybe the longest running experiment in the world. The pitch drop experiment. Professor Thomas Parnell (University of Queensland) began an experiment in 1927 to illustrate the amazing properties of some common materials. He heated some pitch and poored it into a funnel, and let it cool down to room temperature. At this temperature the pitch [...]