Inspired by oversized costumes I've been seeing lately, I decided to try a tornado costume. The engineering feat would be to get it to spin around like a top, with me ...

May 22, 2003 · As soon as I found out about the "people's voice" awards at the Webbys, I created a humorous "how-to-vote" guide and placed it prominently on ...

Description. This Shark Bagless vacuum cleaner has a lot of things going on. There is a motor which turns a fanblade inside a powerful air pump. There is also a ...

Already, we were making startling scientific discoveries: One can carry more beer with a shopping cart full of cans than with a keg-in-a-kart. 256 beer cans: 24 ...

Sep. 14, 2013 · The dishwasher is a simple machine. It is a watertight plastic box where hot water and detergent get sprayed around for 30 or 40 minutes, ...

Here it is, what everyone has been talking about since Basketball season started: An awesome 36 inch (diagonal) flat screen! This NEW flat screen has a ...

On Thursday at lunch I bought a redwood stake to use as my new baseboard. It was a half-inch thick, so I would have a better shot at making a fire before ...

On Saturday night, we decided to find out. Besides the "half barrel" 15½ gallon domestic, the keg family also includes a 13.2 gallon import keg (on the right) ...

It is made by cloning insulin genes into bacteria, basically forcing bacteria to uptake a mammalian insulin gene, produce the insulin, and recover it. First the insulin ...

Jan. 12, 2012 · I asked him some questions about the engineering involved. I didn't realize that the rink was a rare configuration, a circle. Typically skating rinks ...