Generating electricity from candles

It’s not the boil-water-to-turn-steam-turbine thing I was expecting and is easy enough for primary school children to do.
Now I know how to power my laptop when there is a blackout. I will need a lot of this stuff though…
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In anticipation of Transformers live action movie

You know, sometimes it is better to try and fail than to not have tried at all. At least if you fall short of the target, you might still have achieved something worthwhile. However there are some other things that are so sacred that you should not touch it if you cannot get it to [...]

Of growing boys

My students are growing boys. It is disturbingly easy to earn money from such boys.

humorous spam

I usually just scan through spam comments caught by wordpress’s akismet before hitting the delete button, but this caught my attention with its creative attempt. It even feature some researcher’s website. But please, who will go leave a joke as a comment on such an old entry?
Still spam and I have deleted it, but not [...]

Office workers

It was drizzling again when I left office. At the traffic light just beside my office block, a girl was busy blocking the the rain and brushing water out of her hair. I offered to share my umbrella with her but she sheepishly refused.
She was really chio, pretty, with her hair coloured brown and [...]