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Neil Armstrong's Heartbeat - EKG Up For Auction

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One Small Step - Two Small Strips ( Or Maybe Three )




RR Auction of Amherst New Hampshire has announced a 2013 Space and Aviation Autograph and Artifact Auction.  Items on sale will appeal to aviation and space buffs.  RR Auction states that "Offerings include over 850 museum quality artifacts from the Golden Age of aviation and space flight".

How To Build A Perpetual Magnet Woo Generator

    "The general public sees perpetual motion inexactly. Probably they view each machine as a special case. The physicist or engineer, on the other hand, is very precise and classifies perpetual motion machines according to which law of thermodynamics they violate."

Kevin T. Kilty
Riff-Raff = Woo
The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals,

a brief history of the use of electricity in medicine and the development of the pacemaker.

Part 2: The Age Of The Electricians

Part 1, was about early uses of electricity in medicine.  The 'torpedo' of the title was once recommended as a cure for headaches.
Is Google On The Level?

I have often complained about the way that Google search behaves.  For instance, try looking up the capacitance of a lead-acid battery.  Good luck with that - Google positively insists that you ought to want to search for capacity.
The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals,

A brief history of the use of electricity in medicine and the development of the pacemaker.
This is another of my poems for children of all ages.

It is very fortunate for me that the grammar police have never been issued with tazers.
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Paddles At The Beachside

The rains is gone
the sand are dry
The sun is shone
the bird is fly.

The wavies flow
just like heart beat
I think we go
and paddle our feet.




Image courtesy: Trevor Edwards (Lucky Trev) Sheppey Pictures And Postcards.