Word: lightbulbs
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Edison had his lightbulb, Ford had his Model T, and Jan Vinzenz Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. "I felt a little like MacGyver," he says of building the contraption...
...That's Dale to Brennan and Brennan to Dale. Even in their hate phase, they're more alive assaulting each other with rakes and golf clubs, or instituting a premature burial, than they ever were alone, sitting home masturbating to the exercise lady on TV. The lightbulb of enlightenment clicks on: we'll smack each other silly, and then we'll channel our rage into the vanquishing of our enemies. The little guy will defeat the big guy; the child will vanquish the adult...
...Creative would have been to announce a Great American Renewal, to announce - for starters - that we're going to attack the looming recession by unleashing an army of unemployed construction and manufacturing laborers to insulate every public building in America, replace every incandescent lightbulb, rebuild the rail system for high-speed travel and start building solar and wind farms to provide electricity for our military installations and every other federal building. Or whatever. But something big, something that recognizes that the word United, which appears prominently in the name of our country, is probably the biggest Democratic idea...
...power themselves. Peter Girguis, a assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, developed a fuel cell with a grant from the Lindebergh Foundation. These microbes produce extra electrons when they respire anaerobically. Girguis’ invention contains electrodes which gather these up, producing enough power to charge an LED lightbulb. One bucket costs about $15 and is estimated to last 15 years...
...many Yale men does it take to replace a lightbulb?” asked Pilbeam, who has taught at Yale University. “None. New Haven is much nicer in the dark...