Practice safer soldering
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These enterprising young engineering graduates are wanting to revolutionise the art of soldering.
https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/news/consumer-soldering-iron-capstone-design-winner-esch-awards
You can tell them what you feel about soldering here: http://goo.gl/forms/Uep9Qd0GiM
Sadly their current website is hopelessly devoid of any information: http://www.solderotter.com/
https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/news/consumer-soldering-iron-capstone-design-winner-esch-awards
You can tell them what you feel about soldering here: http://goo.gl/forms/Uep9Qd0GiM
Sadly their current website is hopelessly devoid of any information: http://www.solderotter.com/
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Now, I wonder what cognitive potential were destroyed by those fumes.....I coulda been a contender!!
But these painful experiences generally do no lasting harm and are a valuable lesson in life.
I could have been a contender to. In my case I think it was my experiments with glass blowing and making mercury switches back in high school that did me in.
Have you ever had to walk across a crowded school yard at break time with 2 kilos of Mercury in a ceramic jar?
-Phil
A. Soak a cup of Mung Beans overnight, then bring to a boil and let simmer until soft. Leave the green skins on.
B. Add sugar to taste.
You now have Mung Bean Soup, a classic Chinese dessert confection. And it seems that the green skins detoxify lead poisoning and poisoning from other heavy metals.
This is also a hot weather treat iand you will notice a sudden cooling in your skin temperature. Maybe not wise to eat during winter season.
There may not be that much sugar in the world!!!
...pleasant recollections of past projects and perhaps physiological longings for future projects????
Mercury must have been safer when we were kids, we played with it all the time!!
Edit: Drat!! My simple text smiley faces get converted to strange beasts by the Vanilla Sky!
If only we could combine mercury and lead to become Iron Man.
At least Iron Man doesn't wear tights, so we're safe there!
Wait, are we off topic????
Don't believe me? Think of the Romans or the Greeks.
Checkout the Greek symposiums : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium
Find me anything created by tea-total societies.
"LOTS of alcohol", perhaps a bad idea. One has to have respect for the power of chemistry.
Now, what about that soldering thing... ?
Philo Farnsworth was a good Mormon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
It is not safe to drink alcohol or smoke tobacco around heavy metals. Naughty boys.
I think it's been documented:
When you get to regularly drinking about 24 bottles of beer per day, report back on how the quality of your thought has improved. And let us know how friends, family, and employers are enjoying your company.
As far as Greek culture... maybe we could go back to attacking another city when enough men can't find a wife locally. And try going about your business in a bed sheet all day.
There is nothing wrong with a moderate daily alcohol consumption. It is just a problem with the 10% of the population that consumes about 50% of the alcohol produced annually. About a third of that 10% never make it into recovery.
And statistics indicate that roughly about half the population drink next to nothing on an annual basis. So it is something like this...
50% tee-totallers
40% socially acceptable drinkers
10% drinkers unable to control their consumption.
Then the religious fundamentalism took over. Science and maths were regarded as the work of the devil. Progress was halted, never to recover.
I speculate the rules against having the odd tipple were not so strict in the preceding 300 years of development
I don't know any muslims who aren't partial to the odd drink or more.
As for the Greeks. Their "symposia" were organized meetings for debate and intellectual discourse. The "symposiarch" was in charge of the wine and supposed to keep proceedings under control.
Academics continue the tradition of meetings and wine drinking to this day. Never been to a symposium?
But there is also a tendency of the alcohol and drug dependent person to rationalize that they perform better when the reality might be quite different.
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-facts-and-statistics
As just about any bartender knows, the alcohol industry is based on the fact that after 3 drinks, most people will just stay the whole evening and drink themselves silly. Moderate drinkers are considered to be those that have one or two drinks per day.
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Greek society had its frailties. Would you desire to live in the Spartan tradition? And then, Oedipus was a rather embarrassing mess. By the way, do you actually know why Sophocles was put on trial and condemned to death?
It was the Macedonians that really did great things. Aristotile, is generally considered the father of science, logic, and much else. And his student, Alexander the Great went on to build the first great empire in the world.
I admire Shakespeare more than the Greeks as I see through his plays that people and families still get caught up in similar conflicts and delusions that they did so way back then, over 500 years ago.
Sophocles lived a long and happy life. I guess you meant Socrates. Yep, read the last days of Socrates back in high school. Basically he pointed out the stupidity in us all, which rather upset the powers that be. He is one of the Greeks we admire.
What you say of Shakespeare is that he was reiterating Socrates. No Greeks, no Shakespeare, I suspect.
Otherwise I think you sum thing up correctly enough.
I wonder if the Greeks were good at soldering....
They seem to be using that coaxial ventilation system to also protect young fingers from burning themselves and it looks like it's battery powered because...electricity.
They spent a good chunk of their 10000 dollar prize on getting a patent for the whole package.
The first electric soldering irons showed up in 1890 something. Including the "American Beauty". Still available today: https://www.americanbeautytools.com/ I might have to get one of these: https://www.americanbeautytools.com/Stations-And-Controllers/96/features just for the historical creds.
Anyone know if American Beauty are actually any good?
Socrates was put on trial for being a bad influence to young men. Considering all that was going on way back then, it is hard to sort out what that actually means. But it is supposed that the other teachers were jealous that he was actually teaching the youth that the other teacher's were phonies.. maybe they just liked the whole setup of being able to party and to drift from town to town without having to do actual labor for a living.
Plato taught Aristotle who taught Alexander who founded seven cities called Alexandria - including the one in Egypt that had the greatest library in the ancient world. But Aristotle's father was a Macedonian, and he grew up in the Macedonian royal court.
"In 338 B.C. Aristotle began tutoring the son of King Phillip II of Macedonia, thirteen-year-old Alexander the Great. Aristotle was appointed head of the royal academy of Macedon. He felt so strongly about the value of education that he once wrote, "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." Aristotle also taught two other future kings - Ptolemy and Cassander. The impact of his philosophies on these future rulers surely changed history." Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/biography/aristotle_biography#g2WrdhIuURu7Vy5G.99
From what I can tell, the Greeks just loaded up boats with olive oil, sheep, and wine and went cruising the Mediterranean for adventure, wealth, and slaves. These days, the same ritual is for a bunch of college boys to toss a keg of beer in a car and take a road trip.
If alcohol really made everyone more creative, the whole world would be geniuses. It just doesn't work that way.