One-minute oil.

According to Science Daily, engineers from Michigan had a breakthrough yesterday by “pressure cooking” algae to create biocrude in a minute. To make their one-minute biocrude, Savage and Julia Faeth, a doctoral student in Savage’s lab, filled a steel pipe connector with 1.5 milliliters of wet algae, capped it and plunged it into 1,100-degree Fahrenheit … Continue reading →

It’s November. NaNoWriMo has arrived.

November brings warm color to trees, tables piled with Thanksgiving food, and football. But for many dedicated writers, November brings hours in front of the computer screen and sleepless nights with numerous cups of coffee. At last, National Novel Writing Month has arrived once again, and it has just begun. National Novel Writing Month, otherwise … Continue reading →