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Hi, I have made quite a few "Ocarinas", but not designed for musicians, but rather curio collectors. I started to look into making well tuned ones, but for the place and time i was…

This interesting! We entered my Mom into this study. Next month she will be 98. I think her habit of exercising contributed a lot, but the good (lucky) genetics are there too. She …

It might be childish, but I did laugh at the Ben Carson aside.

I have to say that the reworded title is what made me read the article. It is almost poetic. I could see it being a title of a campy movie.

Hmmm, Now I need to find out where my copy is hiding. I really need to reorganize the books again. I savored this for a while, but have not gone through the entire book yet. Sort o…

Hi, I sort of wandered into my career. I started in telecom due to a co-op, and then jumped to a cool job making computers for blind people that was both closer to my home, but als…

I am curious(because I get stuffed up a lot also) Do you know what is causing your stuffiness?

When I was a kid, I scavenged a hunk of cable "Ma Bell" had left behind. I spliced together a quarter mile pair of wires to connect the neighbors house to mine and hooked up a batt…

I know I am biased both by my education and my chosen path . My first computer class was pascal based,my second course was intel based assembler. These were both in community colle…

I was turned on to Chock full o' Nuts years ago, and have never turned back. I will drink any coffee in a pinch, but for great mild coffee I stick to Chock full o' nuts in my frenc…

What jumps out at me is the use of the "constant currency" term. I do not think I have seen that before - Admittedly, I do not study a lot of financials. Is this something that we …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things This book - or its later editions, should be required reading for ALL engineers and designers. Actually for their manage…

I wonder if what seems like much higher margins in coffee allow for more articles like this. While I want what they are saying to be true, I wish I did not have to pay $15.00 for a…

Thanks for your data points. They are quite encouraging. I was blessed with the ability to remember way more information that most of my peers. Now that I have lost some of that ab…

You can pick up Silicon Carbide grit pretty cheap online ( impure moissanite ). I have several tumblers, but have yet to finish the process of making polished gems- but it is still…

> If you look at what happened to experiments with feeding house cats an altered diet in just a few generations. Can you point to a reference?

I will second that. While I do have a computer Engineering degree, I am really more drawn to the stuff posted here outside my areas of expertise. I also like to hear what highly pr…

I love the idea of 15 years in my 60s, I guess you are do the calculations in Hexadecimal.

If you want to see a website from that era see: http://zafka.com While a few changes have been made, the "style" remains unchanged.

Anyone know much about current state of the art for using this for fusion? Sounds like China is planning to mine it from the moon.

I worked a summer job at a factory that made box cars. 10x10 or larger sheets of 1/4 inch plate steel lifted on stacks with chain hoists, box cars tacked together, then put on a la…

My wife is a retired nurse ( American ), she uses that term when referring to such pregnancies.