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Petroleum Product of the Week: Greek Fire(Post)
Picture yourself in a boat on a river the sea. It's ancient times. You don't know the exact date, or even what year it is, because who has time to worry about such trivial matters when ...
The Roads Well-Traveled: The History of America's Transportation Infrastructure(Post)The timeline of road history is a long and winding one. Sometimes, the most important technologies are the ones you don't think about. Or, you only think about them when you're cursing the ...
Aloha Wanderwell, the World's Most Widely-Traveled Woman(Post)If Indiana Jones was real, he'd be a woman. More specifically, he'd be this woman: Aloha Wanderwell. Aloha was quite unlike anyone else of her time. An explorer, vaudevillian, filmmake ...
Petroleum Product of the Week: Dog Collars(Post)I have a confession: I have one dog, but more than ten dog collars at home. Seeing it written down ...okay, it might be a little bit weird. Does it help if I say that these are seasonal? And ...
The role of fossil fuels in Trump's USA and the bottleneck of Renewable Energy(Post)Fossil fuels are the driving force of the modern American economy as well as much of the developed world. This, an indisputable fact, regrettably provokes a lot of backlash. This ...
Reinventing the Wheel: Innovative Concept Tire Designs(Post)Long gone are the days where human transportation was limited to, say, a Conestoga wagon pulled by a team of draft horses. In a world full of planes, trains, and various types of auto ...
What Do Steam Cars and Stephen King Have in Common?(Post)Photography, steam cars, and a haunted hotel βall have something in common--a pair of brothers born in 1849. The Stanley Brothers Freelan Oscar and his identical twin brother Franci ...
Why "Tesla Motors" isn't called "Edison Motors(Post)The great debate of DC vs AC power has raged on for over a century. β Google it β you're certain to come across just as many impassioned advocates on both sides of the current as in the l ...
Can Human Fat be Used to Fuel Your Car?(Post)It's not the prettiest thing to think about, I know. But what if an alternative form of fuel is staring at us in the face--or is, rather, part of our face? Can the human body be turned into ...
Understanding Types of Lubricants: Synthetic Oils(Post)Sometimes when we think of synthetic, it tends to be in direct opposition to natural: synthetic fibers versus natural fibers (polyester vs cotton), synthetic or artificial dyes versus their ...
Kurt Vonnegut, Cloud Seeding, and the Power of the Weather(Post)Q: What does a novel, GE, and governmental control of the weather have in common? A: At least one Vonnegut. My first introduction to Kurt Vonnegut was his 1963 novel, Cat's Cradle. S ...