Energy Basics – a tonne of rain

I was trying to work out how much energy is stored in the rain falling on the roof and dripping down the gutters.  Say a tonne of water for every 10 mm of rain.  We had 65mm last week and it’s raining hard now. A tonne falling a metre gives about 10,000 joules or 7.8 …
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Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards

For a meaning of life … http://www.chucklorre.com for example: CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #210 I believe that in order to walk through grief, fear, loneliness, despair, confusion and anger without recourse to drugs, alcohol, over-eating, over-sexing, or the endless mind-numbing distractions provided by Western culture, one must become a spiritual warrior. I further believe that the …
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Online education – Khan Academy

Yes, it’s good (if you have a decent internet connection …). KhanAcademy.org Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we’re on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own …
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Aren’t The King’s New Clothes Wonderful!?!

Danny Kaye’s is the version I loved as a boy, though Bernard Cribbins does it well too.  If you can’t listen, the lyrics are all you need.  If you don’t cry at the the irony, smile at the knowledge that there is an answer staring us in the face, even if we choose not to …
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