filed in Uncategorized on Aug.30, 2009
(If you try the following and it leaves you with less fingers, a chronic skin condition, or really embarrassed, then it’s your own damn fault.) “Beauty Water.”– Fresh egg albumen … 500 parts Glycerine …………….. 50 parts 50% Alcohol ………… 25 parts Lemon oil ……………. 2 parts Lavender oil …………. 2 parts Oil of thyme [...]
filed in Fortunes in Formulas on Aug.09, 2009
(If you try the following and it leaves you with less fingers, a chronic skin condition, or really embarrassed, then it’s your own damn fault.) Magic from Hiscox and Sloan: PYROTECHNIC MAGIC. Biting Off Red-Hot Iron.–Take a piece of hoop iron about 2 feet long, place it in a vise and bend it backwards and [...]
filed in Event on Aug.03, 2009
As part of the upcoming Light Years – Photography and Space exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, my brilliant partner Colleen Boyle will be giving a talk on the Photographic Images of NASA. Specifically, the ones taken by NASA Astronauts when they should have been keeping to mission timetables. Short Talks Afternoon: Nothing’s Gonna [...]
filed in Event, Science Week on Aug.03, 2009
Here’s a free Science Week event in Melbourne to not miss: At only 38 years of age, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur has already ventured on her first mission into space. Clocking 12 days and 21 hours, travelling 8,489,084 kilometres in 197 Earth orbits, in May this year Megan embarked on the fifth and final servicing [...]
filed in Fortunes in Formulas on Aug.02, 2009
In my last expedition to a second-hand bookstore I came across a moldering book with yellow-to-brown pages called “Fortunes in Formulas for Home, Farm and Workshop.” First published in 1907, the edition I found is from 1937, and contains 10,000 formulas for ACID PROOFING to YELLOW (CHROME), TEST FOR. It’s the sort of book that [...]
