The Bloom Box: The Holy Grail of Energy?
Would you like to make a billion dollars and save the planet?
K.R. Sridhar is a NASA scientist who was working on a project to terraform Mars. He invented a machine that would produce oxygen in the Martian atmosphere and make the Red Planet habitable for humans.
But the budget got cut. The program got cancelled. So K.R. Sridhar took the invention and reversed it to suck in oxygen. He created an entirely new kind of fuel cell, which is far more compact and more efficient than anything now producing electricity. It is designed to replace the grid.
Vienna Teng, “City Hall”
Vienna Teng lives in New York City. She has five albums out.
Nancy Lee Hixson died in Danville, OH this past week, but not before writing her own obituary. You would have liked to have known her. But you can, kind of.
(NANCY) LEE HIXSON of Danville, Ohio died at sunrise on June 30, 2009. She was born Nancy Lee Wood in Cleveland on April 17, 1944, baptised at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Valley City Ohio, and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Independence Ohio. In addition to being a teetotaling mother and an indifferent housekeeper, she was a board certified naturopath specializing in poisonous and medicinal plants; but she would like to point out, posthumously, that although it did occur to her, she never spiked anyone’s tea. She often volunteered as an ombudsman to help disadvantaged teens find college funding and early opened her home to many children of poverty, raising several of them to successful, if unwilling, adulthood. She also enjoyed a long life of unmentionable adventures and confessed she had been a rebellious teen-aged library clerk, an untalented college student on scholarship, a run-away Hippie, a stoic Sunday School teacher, a Brownie leader, a Grange lecturer, an expert rifleman, a waitress, a wife once or twice, a welder, an artist, and a writer. Read more…
E Pluribus Muppet
Brand new, and never seen before. Let’s go Gonzo. Happy Independence Day!
Let’s Make This One Count
A DJ Saved His Life
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The American Heart Association has this helpful hint: if someone suffers a heart attack, perform CPR to the rhythm of – that’s right – The Bee Gee’s “Stayin’ Alive.” And you know what? It works.
Debra Bader was taking a walk in the woods with her 56-year-old husband when he suddenly collapsed. She started singing “Stayin’ Alive,” and thumped on his chest to the beat (in rigorously-approved CPR fashion, of course), for 15 minutes until the paramedics arrived.
And you know what? He lived. 95% of people in the same position don’t. Read more in CNN Health.
The Ghost of Chagall
The first version of the “You’ve Got Talent” tv series franchise debuted in America in 2006. It spawned versions in over 20 different countries. The latest, “Ukraine’s Got Talent,” just premiered in April, 2009.
On “Ukraine’s Got Talent,” Kseniya Simonova, a 24-year-old sand artist, was awarded First Prize for her composition “1945.” There is virtually no information on Simonova currently available in English. But she performs the painting as a great classical pianist or conductor would; the art itself has Marc Chagall’s ghost running through it.
