http://www.metafilter.com/tags/theogray Posts tagged with 'theogray' at MetaFilter. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:58 -0800 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:58 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/80871/The%2DOther%2DWhite%2DHeat Theodore Gray, author of the new book <a href="http://graysci.com/">Theo Gray's Mad Science</a>, has a personal collection of thousands of samples of <a href="http://periodictable.com/">elements</a> [previously on <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/66121/Elementary-My-Dear-Watson">MetaFilter</a>]. In his Popular Science column, he has smelted his own <a href="http://www.popsci.com/node/30347">titanium</a> and <a href="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-09/amazing-rusting-aluminum">dissolved aluminum</a>. Now, he <a href="http://popsci.com/bacon">cuts through steel with bacon</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.80871 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:58 -0800 bacon fire madscience popsci pork science theogray Eater http://www.metafilter.com/35292/Iridium%2Dis%2Dnot%2Da%2Dphone%2Dcompany A <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~georgelazenby/195942.html">Blog entry</a> about a guy who melted a kilo of Iridium in New Jersey with <a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/02/1848222&tid=134&tid=6">Oliver Sacks</a>. There are also pictures and movies of the 200,000 eV electron beam furnace in action.&#0160; <a href="http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/">Theo Gray</a>, co-founder of <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/">Wolfram Research</a> was there too (the pictures are all his). For any laymen who may have wondered in, <a href="http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Ir/key.html">Iridium</a> is not a phone company, it is a precious metal that shares an element group with the likes of Platinum and Rhodium. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35292 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:27:32 -0800 electronbeamfurnace iridium oliversacks theogray wolframresearch pxe2000