Fashion On The Seine

The E-True Hollywood Kermit???

Travel Destinations...

Waiting for this Tuscan librarian to come out and water his plants.

Takin' A Rest...

Polar Bear Chair

Brain Award...

Taylor Wilson is one awesome individual. At age 14 he built a working nuclear fusion reactor in his backyard.--yes that's fusion__the process that powers the stars. More recently the US Department of Energy offered Taylor funding to build Cherenkov Radiation dectors, whatever they may be. Well Taylor went to work and produced a detector for a few hundred dollars. Usually such things cost well over $100,000. So Taylor went ahead and entered his detector into the the International Sciences and Engineering Fair and promptly won himself a $50,000 award. Now that's one smart kid. However it has been my experience that most teenage boys are fascinated with things that blow up. When I was a boy my friends and I made gun powder from saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal to make things go bang. Of course this was far below Taylor's level of sophistication. Hopefully Taylor will taylor his energy into something that will benefit us all. And I am sure he will. He now attends the University of Nevada at Reno. You can read his fascinating story in a feature article in last month's Popular Science. Here's the link.

Photo Bryce Duffy, Popular Science.