Popular Science has a great recurring series called You Built What?! - I've been contributing for years, meeting some incredibly ingenious, creative people. Mostly over the phone, unfortunately.
A few recent highlights include the world's fastest dining room table, a hot rod powered by saws, and a radio flyer wagon that seats two, and is highway-legal. Check them out here.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Truth About Santa is Spreading
The Truth About Santa is spreading! The book is out in the U.K. this year, and The Guardian just picked it as one of their top gift books for Dads this holiday season.
And here's a fun article I wrote for the SUNDAY EXPRESS that runs through the basic of Santa's operation. I've also written one about Santa and the future of education that should be published on December 24th.
Finally, Thane Burnett, a columnist at the Toronto Sun, wrote a great piece gathering a few different scientist's thoughts on Mr. Kringle. He also gathered a few bits from my own reporting on the issue, collected here as a list of Santa's top technological tricks.
And here's a fun article I wrote for the SUNDAY EXPRESS that runs through the basic of Santa's operation. I've also written one about Santa and the future of education that should be published on December 24th.
Finally, Thane Burnett, a columnist at the Toronto Sun, wrote a great piece gathering a few different scientist's thoughts on Mr. Kringle. He also gathered a few bits from my own reporting on the issue, collected here as a list of Santa's top technological tricks.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Book Dads
A great take on Fish by teacher and reviewer Renny Fong:
"Whether read aloud or independently, this book will be hard to put down. Fish dishes it all out: action, suspense, mystery, and plenty of hearty laughs...Fish awakens all of the senses in its details, particularly smell. Mone writes it; you smell it. Your nose wrinkles up as Fish, being the lowest on the totem pole, has to scrub the 'seats of easement' and gets too close to pirate’s breath and feet. Suspense and action are raw, with each chapter leaving you hungry for more."
The rest of the Book Dads review is here.
"Whether read aloud or independently, this book will be hard to put down. Fish dishes it all out: action, suspense, mystery, and plenty of hearty laughs...Fish awakens all of the senses in its details, particularly smell. Mone writes it; you smell it. Your nose wrinkles up as Fish, being the lowest on the totem pole, has to scrub the 'seats of easement' and gets too close to pirate’s breath and feet. Suspense and action are raw, with each chapter leaving you hungry for more."
The rest of the Book Dads review is here.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Pirates are Winning
A fascinating, comprehensive story on the modern pirate problem ran in a recent New York Review of Books. An excerpt:
"Somali pirates will strike anything: one-thousand-foot-long oil tankers; tiny sailboats with three people on board; old-fashioned, crescent-sailed Arab dhows; freighters crammed with emergency food; freighters crammed with weapons; a tanker carrying extremely flammable benzene that American authorities worried could be converted into an enormous, floating bomb. The pirates have even attacked navy ships, apparently by mistake."
"Somali pirates will strike anything: one-thousand-foot-long oil tankers; tiny sailboats with three people on board; old-fashioned, crescent-sailed Arab dhows; freighters crammed with emergency food; freighters crammed with weapons; a tanker carrying extremely flammable benzene that American authorities worried could be converted into an enormous, floating bomb. The pirates have even attacked navy ships, apparently by mistake."
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