How to keep yourself inspired with a story, liquid water in the Kuiper Belt, converting diesels to run on cooking oil, “geome engineering”, civil servant with tiny brain …

• 1 – Avoiding Your Story

  “In at least one way, a writing project is very much like getting regular exercise: it will go well if you’re making excuses to do it instead of excuses not to do it.” That figures.

  (tags: inspiration excitement exercise routine procrastination discipline advice tips writing)

• 2 – Liquid Water in the Kuiper Belt?

  “Only deep inside Charon could water be a liquid. Yet, there is fresh ice on the surface, meaning that some liquid water must somehow reach the surface.”

  (tags: objects bodies belt Kuiper water liquid Charon space)

• 3 – How Slick It Is! Fill ‘Er Up With Cooking Oil, Not Crude Oil

  “If you want to drive a green machine, just troll craigslist for an old diesel car or truck. Any diesel engine can run on vegetable oil — either used (fryer fat) or fresh out of the 5-gallon jug…”

  (tags: conversions diesel biodiesel biofuel environment vehicle car)

• 4 – “Geome Engineering”

  “In essence, these three are small-scale geoengineering projects. That’s a bit of an ungainly (and arguably contradictory) name, so I’ve elected to refer to these methods as “geome engineering.”"

  (tags: engineering geome technology mitigation catastrophe environment change climate geoengineering)

• 5 – Man with tiny brain shocks doctors

  “A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull.” The punchline? He’s a civil servant. Arf!

  (tags: weird psychology neurology brain medicine human)

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