Happy Leap Year Day!!!

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Similes to Make You Smile : )

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went [...]

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Transformers

Basically, all of the electrical power in your home is first passed through a series of transformers. So how exactly do they work?
Transformers reduce current before transmitting electrical energy over very, very long distances through wires. By reducing current, the voltage is increased, making for a very economical transmission of power. An alternating current in [...]

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Vignettes

Read some vignettes?  ^ ^  Amusement guaranteed.

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Spidery Silks

Listening to Professor Cheryl Hayashi’s speech was definitely an enjoyable experience.  Whoever knew that a single spider could produce so many kinds of silks including types used for egg sacks, safety lines, and prey catching?  And some spiders being able to produce silk from not only their spinnerets but their legs too?  Definitely something I [...]

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Happy Chinese New Year!!

It’s the Year of the Rat!!

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Tigers

Well, hopefully everyone had a nice SuperBowl Sunday!  At first, I was going to write about football but then I decided that a) too many others would write about it and b) I’d probably sound foolish trying to explain something I’ve always been indifferent to.
So instead I’d like to talk about the physics of a [...]

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