Medical
Foods, Vitamins, Minerals, Nostrums
5-HTP: Doc Harris Presents Green Banana Award (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Alcohol (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Kurt Ullman)
Vitamin B12 (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Blue-green algae (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Breastfeeding (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Breast milk (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cabbage (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Caffeine (Steve Dyer)
Calcium (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cannibalism (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Canola oil (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cholesterol (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Larry Weisenthal)
Chromium (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Eggs (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Flavonoids (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Folate (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Iodine (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Iron (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Lecithin (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
LEF chemicals (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Linolenic acid (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Linseed oil (Matti Narkia; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Magnesium (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Maltodextrin (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Manganese (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Niacin (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Nuts (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Oils (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Peanut oil (Fred Thomas; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Potassium (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Spices (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Sulfur (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Trans fatty acids (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Paul Rogers)
Vegetarians and Vitamin A (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Vitamin A (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Vitamin C (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Martin Banschbach)
Vitamin D (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Reinhold Vieth)
Vitamin E (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Vitamin K (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Vitamins (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Wine (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Medications; Anesthetics; Narcotics
Accutane (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; David Wright)
Antibiotics for colds (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Steve Dyer)
Aspirin (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Steve Dyer)
Augmentin (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Interactions between birth control pills and antibiotics (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Chloramphenicol (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cholesterol drugs (Fibrate Warning: Tricor (fenofibrate) and Lopid (gemfibrozil)) (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cough syrup (Steve Dyer)
Ephedrine (Steve Dyer)
Expiration dates (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Fen-phen (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Haldol (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Hydrogen Peroxide (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Oxycontin (Steve Dyer)
Pill shapes (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
PPA ban (Steve Dyer)
Psychiatric drugs (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Ritalin (Steve Dyer; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Talwin (Steve Dyer)
Viagra (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Coumadin (Warfarin) (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; David Rind)
Devices; Techniques; Procedures; Materials
Calcification (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
CPR (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; David Rind)
Embalmed (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Heart tests (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Injection sterility (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
In vitro chemotherapy testing (Larry Weisenthal)
MRI (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Pacemakers (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
PET scans (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Advanced resuscitation (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Vaccine injection (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Diseases; Syndromes; Complaints
Attention Deficit Disorder (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Alzheimer's disease (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Arthritis (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Brain death (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Brain tumors (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Cancer treatment (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cervical cancer (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Chicken pox (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Claudication (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Diabetes (David Rind; John De Armond; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Fainting (Neal Lippman; Steven B. Harris, M.D.; David Rind)
Fish odor (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Food poisoning (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Gout (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Steve Dyer)
Gulf War Syndrome (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Hemorrhoids (Howard McCollister, M.D.; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Hypertension (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Low cholesterol (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Obesity (Howard McCollister, M.D.; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Pertussis (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Polio (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Post traumatic stress disorder (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Scabies (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Sinus infections (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Craig Werner, M.D.)
Smallpox (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Thyroid disease (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; David Rind)
Travelers' diarrhea (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Greg Nee)
Urinary tract infections (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
VD infant eye infections (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Xanthoma (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Physiology; Biochemistry; Poisons; Life Extension
Anti-aging chemicals (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Blood pressure (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Body heat emissions (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Brain fuel (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Colon bacteria (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Coolidge Effect (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Homocysteine (David Rind; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Humans' natural diet (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Stomach (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Symptoms in the elderly (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Wear (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Animals
Animals' minds (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Humane slaughter (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Myths; Quacks; Fringe
Bloodletting (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
"Detoxification" (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Imagination (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Laetrile (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Natural Hygiene (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Vaccine protestors (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Ian A. York; Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.)
Politics
Antibiotics in farming (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Animal Nazis (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
The *Really* Dangerous Drugs in Mexico: OTC Antibiotics (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.; David Rind)
Canadian health care (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cardiopump ban (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Cloning (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Ownership of dead bodies (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Drug advertising (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Emergency Rooms (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Carey Gregory; David Rind; Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.; Norman Yarvin)
The FDA (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Steven Belknap; Steve Dyer)
The Flexner report (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Freedom (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Indians and buffalo (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
The left-right scale in politics (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Research dollars (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Social osteoporosis (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Doctors; Patients
Autopsies (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.; Steven B. Harris)
Double-blind tests (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; Jay Mann)
Doctor sex (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Doctors' explanations (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Doctor status (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Doctor strikes (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Emergencies (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Geriatrics (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
On Steve Harris (Steven B. Harris, M.D.; David Rind)
Illegible prescriptions (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Lying patients (Jonathan R. Fox, M.D.; Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Medical training (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Nurse Practitioners (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Pronunciation (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Residents' sleep deprivation (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Serotonin (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Talking to patients (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Team approach (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Miscellaneous
Home hospice (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Homosexuality (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Human exposure to vacuum (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Ornish (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Plant plastics (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Sex weirdness (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Smoking (Steven B. Harris, M.D.)
Vaccinia (Ian A. York)
Military
Army
Russian tanks (George William Herbert)
Sheetrock penetration (George William Herbert)
Tank design (George William Herbert)
Turretless tanks (George William Herbert)
Politics, Society
"Major" (John Schilling)
Russian bomber intercepts (John Randolph)
Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Electronic, Advanced
Laser weapons (anon; John Schilling)
Nuclear
Amory Lovins (John De Armond)
Carbon 14 (B. Alan Guthrie; John De Armond)
Chernobyl (Jeremy Whitlock; John De Armond)
Emergency core cooling (John De Armond)
Fast reactor explosions (John De Armond)
Fusion (Henry Spencer; Paul F. Dietz; Bruce Scott; John De Armond)
Geiger counters (John De Armond)
The Integral Fast Reactor (Gregory Greenman; E. Michael Smith; John De Armond; T Orth)
Low level waste (John De Armond)
Naval nukes (John G. De Armond)
Neutron embrittlement (John De Armond)
Nuclear plant startup (John De Armond)
Nuclear reactor costs (John De Armond)
Nuclear safety standards (John De Armond)
Plutonium isotope separation (John De Armond)
Potassium-40 (John De Armond)
Radiation doses (John De Armond)
Radiation hormesis (John De Armond)
Reactor safeguards (John De Armond)
Reprocessing (John De Armond; Paul Dietz)
Karen Silkwood (John De Armond)
Spent fuel pools (John De Armond)
Three Mile Island (B. Alan Guthrie; John De Armond)
Utility mindset (John De Armond)
Xenon and krypton (John De Armond)
Space
Rockets
Ablatives (Henry Spencer)
Aerospikes (Henry Spencer; Ben Muniz; Jeff Greason)
Cold steel's brittleness (Henry Spencer)
Chamber pressure (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Combustion instability (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Deep throttling (Henry Spencer)
Detonation rocket (Jordin Kare)
Efficiency (Bruce P. Dunn; Henry Spencer)
Engine cycles (Doug Jones)
Engine reliability (Jeff Greason)
Engine temperatures (Gary Hudson)
Exhaust backflow (Henry Spencer)
Exhaust color (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Expander cycle (Henry Spencer; Jim F. Glass)
Hybrids (Jeff Greason; Bevin McKinney; Bruno Berger; Henry Spencer)
Ignition (Paul F. Dietz; Doug Jones; George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Improvements (Henry Spencer; Jeff Greason)
Injectors (Henry Spencer)
Ion engines (Henry Spencer)
Altitude compensation using a jet engine (Gary Hudson)
Liquid vs solid (Bruce Dunn)
LOX cooling (Doug Jones)
Metal autoignition (Andrew Higgins; Doug Jones; Henry Spencer; Jeff Greason)
Niobium nozzles (Jeff Greason)
Nuclear-thermal rockets (Paul F. Dietz; Henry Spencer; James A Davis)
Overexpansion (Henry Spencer)
Pogo oscillations (Henry Spencer)
Primitive rockets (George William Herbert; Henry Spencer; James A Davis; Tom Billings)
Pumps (Jordin Kare)
Radiative cooling (Henry Spencer)
The RL10 (Bruce Dunn; Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer)
Rocket design books (Henry Spencer)
Rocket noise (Jeff Greason; Doug Jones; Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer)
Russian engines (Paul F Austin)
Inefficiencies of small rockets (Dani Eder; Jordin Kare)
The SSME (Henry Spencer; Bruce Dunn)
Staged combustion (Henry Spencer)
Thermal rockets (Doug Jones)
Turbopumps (Paul F. Dietz; Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer)
X1 engine (Doug Jones)
Rocket fuels
Acetylenes (Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer)
Carbide fuel (Jeff Greason)
Carbon monoxide (Paul F. Dietz)
ClF5 (Henry Spencer)
Exhaust and the ozone layer (Henry Spencer)
Flame temperatures (Henry Spencer)
Fluorine (Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer)
Fuel costs (Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer)
Fuel ratio (Henry Spencer)
Hydrazine (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Hydrogen (Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer)
Kerosene (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
Li-F-H (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
Liquid hydrogen (Henry Spencer)
LOX (George Herbert; Henry Spencer; Tom Perigrin)
MAPP (Bruce Dunn)
Monopropellants (Henry Spencer)
Nitric acid (Jeff Greason; Doug Jones; George William Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Nitrous oxide (Henry Spencer)
Hydrogen Peroxide (George Herbert; Henry Spencer; Jeff Greason; Rick Ballard; Bruce Dunn; Jordin Kare)
Propane (Paul F. Dietz; Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer)
Regenerative coolants (Jeff Greason; Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer)
Storables (Henry Spencer; Jim Davis)
TNT (Larry Curcio; Doug Jones; Gary Hudson; Bevin McKinney)
UDMH (Doug Jones)
Xenon (Paul F. Dietz)
Spacecraft
Airbag landing (Henry Spencer)
Analog computers (Henry Spencer)
Artificial gravity (Theodore W. Hall; Charles R Martin; Henry Spencer)
ASAT (George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Backup computers (Henry Spencer)
Beryllium (Henry Spencer)
Burn-in (Henry Spencer)
Capsule smell (Henry Spencer)
Catalyst bed heaters (Brett Buck)
Cats landing on feet; orientation changes in space (David M. Palmer; Henry Spencer)
CCD shielding (Jordin Kare)
Cold-welding (Henry Spencer)
Comsat eclipses (Phil Karn; Henry Spencer)
Comsat lifetime (Henry Spencer)
Crasher stages ("Doug"; Henry Spencer)
Dyna-Soar (Henry Spencer)
Explosive bolts (Jordin Kare; Kim Keller; Henry Spencer)
Flight software (Henry Spencer)
Galileo (Henry Spencer)
GPS (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer; Phil Karn; Jordin Kare)
Gyros (Brett Buck; Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Hard disks in vacuum (Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Helium cooling (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Hubble (Henry Spencer)
Hydrogen's flammability (Doug Jones)
Hydrogen storage (Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer; Steve Willner)
Inflatable space station (Henry Spencer)
Interfaces (Henry Spencer)
ISS (Henry Spencer)
Magnetically clean (Henry Spencer)
Mil-spec (Henry Spencer)
Mir (David K Cornutt; James Oberg)
MPL (Brett Buck; Frank Crary; Geoffrey A. Landis; Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Navigation (Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Nuclear ASAT (Allen Thomson)
Orbital attitude axes (John Prussing)
Passive cooling (Henry Spencer)
Photo calibration grid (Henry Spencer)
Radiation shielding (Henry Spencer)
Recycling (Henry Spencer)
Reprogrammable spacecraft (Henry Spencer)
Safety factors (Henry Spencer)
Satellite nondecay (Allen Thomson)
SDI (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Skylab (Henry Spencer)
Solar cells (Dani Eder; Doug Jones; Henry Spencer; Geoffrey Landis)
Solar power satellites (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Solar sails (Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Space lubricants (Henry Spencer)
Space nukes (Henry Spencer)
Space pen (Henry Spencer)
Space station (George William Herbert; Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Space toilet (Henry Spencer)
Spin axes (Henry Spencer)
Spin (Henry Spencer)
Spot imagers (Henry Spencer)
Star trackers (Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Stirling engines (Jordin Kare)
Urine recycling (Doug Jones; James Oberg)
Water recycling (Henry Spencer)
Apollo
Apollo 13 (Henry Spencer)
The Apollo 1 fire (Henry Spencer)
Apollo 6 (Henry Spencer)
Apollo books (Henry Spencer)
Apollo heatshield (Henry Spencer)
Apollo's innovations (Henry Spencer)
Apollo navigation (Henry Spencer)
Apollo cabin atmosphere (Henry Spencer)
Apollo capsule reuse (Henry Spencer)
CM-SM connection (Henry Spencer)
Electroluminescent displays (Henry Spencer; OM; "Dave")
Gemini (Henry Spencer)
Saturn V launch flame-belch (Henry Spencer)
Launch escape tower (Henry Spencer)
Lifting reentry (Henry Spencer; James Summers)
Lunar Module landing (Henry Spencer)
Lunar Module (Henry Spencer)
Lunar Module mounting (Henry Spencer)
Saturn V roll after takeoff (Henry Spencer)
Water landing (Henry Spencer)
Space Shuttle
Challenger (George Herbert; Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Challenger risk briefings (Mary Shafer)
External Tank (Bruce Dunn; Henry Spencer; Dani Eder)
External Tank insulation (Henry Spencer)
Orbiter debris hits (Henry Spencer)
O-rings (Henry Spencer)
PIO (Mary Shafer)
Taking the Shuttle to 51 degrees (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Shuttle abort (Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Shuttle alternatives (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle altitude (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle bay doors (James Oberg)
Shuttle control (Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Shuttle cooling (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle cost (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle crossrange ability (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Shuttle development (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle emergency landing sites (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle escape ball (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle escape (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle hatch lock (Fred Leslie; James Oberg)
Shuttle landing (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle launch costs (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle life (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle piloting (Henry Spencer)
Shuttle processing (Kim Keller; Henry Spencer)
Shuttle supports (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer)
Shuttle tires (Henry Spencer)
SRB ignition (Phil Karn; Henry Spencer)
SRB reuse (Henry Spencer)
SRB shutdown (Henry Spencer)
SRBs (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer; Dennis R. Jenkins; Josh Hopkins)
SSME ignition (Henry Spencer)
TDRS (Henry Spencer)
Launchers
Aerodynamics books (Jeff Greason)
Atlas (Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer)
Balloon tanks (Henry Spencer)
Buran (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Cape Canaveral (Henry Spencer)
Counterrotating propellors (Henry Spencer)
Cryo tank filling (Henry Spencer)
DC-X (Frank Crary; Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Ejection (George William Herbert; Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Expendable tanks (Henry Spencer)
Fuel tank scaling laws (Henry Spencer)
Fuel tanks (Jeff Greason; Doug Jones)
Guidance algorithms (Henry Spencer; MJessick@aol.com "Matt")
Lander legs (Henry Spencer)
Landing gear weight (Gary Hudson; George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Landing (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Launcher testing (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
Launch trajectory (Henry Spencer)
Medical lifeboat (Henry Spencer)
Missile heritage (Henry Spencer)
Moon exploration/launcher book (Henry Spencer)
Parking orbit (Henry Spencer)
Personal reentry (parachute from orbit) (Henry Spencer)
Reentry (Jeff Greason; Andrew Higgins; Henry Spencer)
Reliability (Allen Thomson; Henry Spencer)
Rocket spin-stabilization (Henry Spencer)
Roton (Gary C. Hudson; Jeff Greason; Bevin McKinney; Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Saturn naming (Henry Spencer)
Saturn variable mixture (Henry Spencer)
Saturn V failure (Henry Spencer)
Saturn V guidance (Henry Spencer)
Saturn V preparation (Henry Spencer)
Saturn V (George Herbert; Henry Spencer; Jim Scotti)
Scramjets (Henry Spencer)
Space plane (Henry Spencer)
SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer)
Stability (Jeff Greason; George Herbert)
Staging (Henry Spencer)
Stagnation temperature reference (Jeff Greason; John Hare)
V3 (Henry Spencer)
Vertical takeoff (Henry Spencer)
Water cooled reentry (Gary Hudson)
Winged Saturn (Dani Eder)
X15 (Jim Davis; Henry Spencer; James A Davis; Mary Shafer)
X-29 (Henry Spencer)
X33 (Henry Spencer; Robert I. Baumgartner; Jeff Greason; George Herbert; Henry Spencer; Mitchell Burnside Clapp)
Zenit (Allen Thomson; Henry Spencer)
Miscellaneous
Aerogels (Jordin Kare)
Airplane economics (Jeff Greason)
The "Atomic Cannon" (Doug Jones)
Military aviation attack height (Henry Spencer)
B52s (Henry Spencer)
Babbage (Henry Spencer)
"Billion" (Henry Spencer)
Cancer rates (Henry Spencer)
Centrifugal force from the Earth's rotation (Henry Spencer)
Concorde (Henry Spencer)
Crustal uranium (George William Herbert)
The book "Dark Sun" (Dwayne Allen Day)
Dollar bills (Doug Jones)
Duct tape (Henry Spencer)
The Dvorak keyboard (Paul F. Dietz; Henry Spencer)
Eyewitness reports (Henry Spencer)
Falling mammals (Henry Spencer)
Fighter canopies (Henry Spencer)
Harrier (Henry Spencer)
Hawaii (Henry Spencer)
Heavy airlift (George William Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Heavy water (Paul Dietz)
High altitude balloon (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Himalayas (Henry Spencer)
Hydrocephalics (David Palmer)
Making ice in the desert (Henry Spencer)
Interstates (Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
IR countermeasures (Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Light bulbs (Henry Spencer)
Breathing liquids (Henry Spencer)
Liquid helium (Henry Spencer)
Little Boy (Henry Spencer)
Longitude (Henry Spencer)
Metals' vapor pressures (Paul F. Dietz)
Metric prefixes (Henry Spencer)
Microsoft (Henry Spencer)
Naval automation (George William Herbert)
Newton quote (Henry Spencer)
Night vision (Henry Spencer)
Nuclear detection (Paul F. Dietz)
Nuclear-powered bombers (Henry Spencer)
Nuclear torpedo (Henry Spencer)
Old low-radiation steel (Henry Spencer)
Reactor coolants (Paul F. Dietz; Henry Spencer)
Shaped charges (Andrew Higgins)
Ship economics (George Herbert)
Smallpox (Henry Spencer)
Social Security (Henry Spencer)
Sonic boom elimination (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer; James A Davis; Rand Simberg; Steinn Sigurdsson)
Sonic booms (Karl Swartz; Mary Shafer; Henry Spencer)
Space debris (Henry Spencer; Phil Karn)
SR71 (George Herbert; Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
The standard kilogram (Henry Spencer)
Sterile cockpit (Mary Shafer)
Tall buildings (George William Herbert)
Airplane thrust reversers (Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Unicorns (Henry Spencer)
Units (Henry Spencer)
WD40 (Henry Spencer)
White Sands (Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer; Steve Wachowski)
Exotics
Antimatter (Gordon D. Pusch; Henry Spencer)
Bussard Ramjet (George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Carbonyl process applied to asteroids (Andrew Case)
Cycling spacecraft (Doug Jones)
Fusion (Gordon D. Pusch; Henry Spencer; Paul F. Dietz)
Gamma ray laser prospects (Jeff Greason)
Gas gun explosive (Andrew Higgins)
Gun launch (Andrew Higgins; Bruce Dunn; Doug Jones; George Herbert; Dani Eder; Henry Spencer)
Gun velocity (Andrew Higgins; Bruce Dunn)
Helium-3 (Dani Eder; Paul F. Dietz; Henry Spencer)
Interstellar debris (Gordon D. Pusch)
Laser launch (Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare)
Magnetic deceleration (Doug Jones)
Mass drivers (Andrew Higgins; Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Orion (Paul F. Dietz; Andrew Higgins; Henry Spencer)
Project Pluto (Bill Higgins; Henry Spencer)
Railguns (Bruce Dunn)
Relativistic debris shields (Henry Spencer)
Ringworld (Henry Spencer)
Skyscrapers (George William Herbert)
Sling launcher (Andrew Higgins)
Stable plasma (Jordin Kare)
Tethers (Dani Eder; Jordin Kare; Hans Moravec)
Orbits
Geostationary (Henry Spencer)
Glenn's Mercury flight orbit (James Oberg)
ISS's orbit (James Oberg)
Lagrange points (Henry Spencer)
Lunar orbit (Henry Spencer)
Moon capture by a planet (Henry Spencer)
The Moon's orbit (Henry Spencer)
Nodal regression (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Precession (Henry Spencer)
Radiation drag (Henry Spencer)
Reaching the sun (Henry Spencer)
Resonances (Henry Spencer)
Stopovers (Henry Spencer)
Tidal lock (Henry Spencer)
Trojan points (Henry Spencer)
Politics, Society
Archimedes (Henry Spencer)
Astronauts (Henry Spencer; Jim Scotti; Mary Shafer)
The Avro Arrow (Henry Spencer)
Bomber Command (WW2) (Henry Spencer)
The GSA bureaucracy (Mary Shafer)
Martin Caidin's books (Henry Spencer)
California power (Doug Jones)
Cameras (Henry Spencer)
Carter (Henry Spencer)
Chechnya (James Oberg)
Competition (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
Consulting (Jordin Kare)
Copernicus (Frank Crary; Henry Spencer)
Costs (Doug Jones; Gary Hudson; Henry Spencer)
Covert launch (Allen Thomson)
Cronkite (James Oberg)
Engine development (Jeff Greason)
Fear (Mary Shafer)
The Fifties (Henry Spencer)
Full-moon effect on havoc (Henry Spencer)
Galileo (Henry Spencer)
Germans (Henry Spencer)
Glenn (Henry Spencer; James Oberg; Michael Cassutt)
Al Gore and the Internet (George William Herbert)
Government help (Henry Spencer)
Heinemann (Henry Spencer)
Heinlein (Henry Spencer)
Indians (Henry Spencer)
Iraqi supergun (Allen Thomson; Henry Spencer)
ITAR (Jeff Greason)
Japan (Henry Spencer)
Jury nullification (George Herbert)
Leaks (Allen Thomson)
Lend-Lease (Henry Spencer)
Missile gap (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Moon race (Henry Spencer)
NACA (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
NASA administrator (Henry Spencer)
NASA and ICs (Henry Spencer; Paul Dietz)
NASA censorship (Allen Thomson; James Oberg)
NASA information (Jeff Greason)
NASA (Jeff Greason; Dave Michelson; Henry Spencer; Rand Simberg; Ken Hollis)
Orwell (Henry Spencer)
Patents (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
Patriot vs Scud (Henry Spencer)
Pegasus (Greg Kuperberg; Henry Spencer; Mary Shafer)
Private enterprise (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
"Proprietary" (Henry Spencer)
Regulation (Henry Spencer; Jeff Greason)
RTGs (Allen Thomson; Henry Spencer)
Russian coverups (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Russian partnership (James Oberg)
Russian rocket scientists (James Oberg)
Sagan (Frank Crary; Geoffrey A. Landis; Henry Spencer)
Salvage law (Henry Spencer)
The destruction of the US satellite industry (Henry Spencer)
Scientific American magazine (Michael Pelletier)
SDI (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer; Thomas L. Billings; James Oberg)
Skunk Works (Henry Spencer)
Soviet collapse predictions (Allen Thomson)
Space industries (Paul F. Dietz)
Space treaties (Henry Spencer)
Technology leakage (Jeff Greason; Henry Spencer)
Tsien (Andrew Higgins; Dwayne Allen Day; James Oberg)
TV advertisers (James Oberg)
UFOs and Gordon Cooper (James Oberg)
Ratcsh UFO retraction (James Oberg)
Von Braun (Henry Spencer)
Weapons of mass destruction (Allen Thomson; Henry Spencer)
Weapons permits (George William Herbert)
Wen-Ho Lee (Allen Thomson)
Science, Exploration
Asteroids (Henry Spencer)
Astronomical distance measurements (Henry Spencer; Ned Wright; Steven B. Harris)
Astronomical unit (Henry Spencer)
Breathable atmospheres (Doug Jones; George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Cosmic rays (Henry Spencer)
The cosmological constant (Henry Spencer)
The diffraction limit (Henry Spencer)
The ecliptic (Henry Spencer)
Eye focusing (Henry Spencer)
Free fall (Henry Spencer)
Galaxies (Henry Spencer)
Gamma ray bursts (David M. Palmer; Paul F. Dietz)
G tolerance (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare; James Oberg)
High-G blackout (Henry Spencer)
Human advantages (Henry Spencer)
Human internal clock (Henry Spencer)
Incoming asteroids (Henry Spencer; Jim Scotti; Jordin Kare; Josh Hopkins; Paul F. Dietz; Steinn Sigurdsson)
Io (Henry Spencer)
Lunar concrete (George Herbert)
Man in vacuum (Geoffrey A. Landis; Henry Spencer)
Mars crew (Henry Spencer)
Mars Direct (Henry Spencer)
Mars dust (Henry Spencer)
Mars exploration (Bruce Dunn)
Mars flows (James Oberg)
Fuel-making on Mars (Henry Spencer)
Mars landing (Henry Spencer)
Mars life (Geoffrey A. Landis; George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Mars meteorites (Henry Spencer)
Mars rovers (Henry Spencer)
Terraforming Mars (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Martial arts (Henry Spencer)
Meteorites (Frank Crary; Henry Spencer)
Molecular sieves (Henry Spencer)
The Moon's atmosphere (Henry Spencer)
The Moon's brightness (Henry Spencer)
Moondust (Doug Jones; George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Electrolysis of lunar materials (Henry Spencer; MA Lloyd)
Fuel-making from the Moon (Bruce Dunn; Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Lunar ice (Henry Spencer)
Lunar ores (Henry Spencer)
The Moon's origin (Henry Spencer)
Moon photos (Henry Spencer)
Lunar roads (Henry Spencer)
Neutrinos (Paul F. Dietz)
Nukes and the Van Allen belts (Geoffrey A. Landis; Henry Spencer; rk)
Nuclear waste disposal in space (Dani Eder; Henry Spencer; Jordin Kare; Paul F. Dietz)
Oxygen atmosphere (Paul F. Dietz)
"Parsec" (Henry Spencer)
Photosynthesis (Henry Spencer)
Plant efficiency (Paul Dietz)
Quasars (Henry Spencer)
Regolith (Henry Spencer)
Scurvy (Henry Spencer)
Skinsuits (flexible spacesuits) (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Solar flares (Kyle Miller; Frank Crary; George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Solar system formation (Henry Spencer)
The South Atlantic Anomaly (Henry Spencer)
Spacesickness (Henry Spencer)
Spacesuits and meteoroids (Henry Spencer)
Spacesuits (George Herbert; Henry Spencer)
Spacewalks (Henry Spencer)
The Sun (Paul F. Dietz; Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Supercritical (Henry Spencer)
Supercritical water oxidation (Henry Spencer)
Supernova (Henry Spencer)
Surveyor strep (Henry Spencer; James Oberg)
Unmanned (Henry Spencer)
Van Allen belts (Henry Spencer)
Venus balloon (Mitchell Burnside Clapp)
Venus suits (Henry Spencer)
Venus (Paul F. Dietz; Henry Spencer)
Women and color sensing (Henry Spencer)
Zero-G fluid load (Henry Spencer)
Electrical, Electronic
Green plug (John De Armond)
High voltage battery power (John De Armond)
Load shedding (John De Armond)
Air Conditioning, Refrigeration
Putting fridge condensers in a remote location (John De Armond)
GE refrigerators (John De Armond)
Hydrocarbon (non-)dangers (George Goble; John De Armond)
Jokes
Famous Americans (anon)
Metalworking
1-2-3 blocks (Robert Bastow)
4-jaw chucks (John Morton; Robert Bastow)
Accidents (Dave Baker; Don Wilkins; Robert Bastow)
Accuracy (John (EBo) David; Ned Simmons; Pete Somebody; Rich Williams; Robert Bastow; Jim Rozen; Ed Huntress; Bucky Goldstein)
Acetylene (Barry L. Ornitz; Gary Coffman)
Diluting acid (Don Wilkins)
Aluminum electrolysis (Don Wilkins)
Aluminum sawing (Robert Bastow)
Apprenticeship (Robert Bastow)
Arrowheads (Ernie Leimkuhler; Lou Boyd; Robert Bastow; Tom Holt)
Artillery breech threading (Kurt Laughlin; Robert Bastow)
Ball bearing manufacture (Bob Chilcoat; Robert Bastow)
Ball burnishing (Robert Bastow)
Ball holding (Robert Bastow)
Barrel drilling (Robert Bastow)
Barrel outside turning (Russ Kepler)
Barrel rifling (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen; Robert Bastow)
Barrel vise (Robert Bastow)
Baume (Don Wilkins)
Bees-and-vacuum story (Don Wilkins)
Belt drive (Robert Bastow)
Belt grinders (Robert Bastow)
Bench vises (Robert Bastow)
Big lathes (Robert Bastow)
Black powder barrels (Robert Bastow)
Blowtorches (Don Wilkins; Ted Edwards)
Books (Robert Bastow)
Boring bars (Robert Bastow)
Brass drilling (Robert Bastow)
Brazed carbide (Robert Bastow)
Break-action rifles (Robert Bastow)
Camlock stud fiddling (Robert Bastow)
Carbide drills (Robert Bastow)
Carbide inserts (Dave Baker)
Carbides (Don Wilkins)
Cartridge brass (Robert Bastow)
Case hardening (Robert Bastow)
Cast iron machining (Robert Bastow)
Chemical safety laws (Don Wilkins)
Debugging a Chinese lathe (Doug Jackson)
Chuck mounting taper (Robert Bastow)
Collets (Robert Bastow)
Coolant (Robert Bastow)
Redoing a crummy powerfeed (Doug Jackson)
Cutting fiberglass (Jim Rozen)
Cutting Science (Robert Bastow)
Cyanide (Don Wilkins)
Deburring (Robert Bastow)
Deckel mills (Robert Bastow)
Defensive driving (Robert Bastow)
Dial calipers (Robert Bastow)
Diametric indexing (Robert Bastow)
Diamond cutting inserts (Ed Huntress; Jim Rozen)
Die threading (Robert Bastow)
Dogs (Robert Bastow)
Double-headed pennies (Robert Bastow)
Drill grinding (Jack Erbes; Robert Bastow)
Drive belts (Robert Bastow)
Dry ice (Barry L. Ornitz; Don Wilkins)
Edge finders (Robert Bastow; Russ Kepler)
Electroplating (Chuck Harris; Don Wilkins; Doug White)
Elephant hunting (Robert Bastow)
Old shop practice for choosing feed rates (Robert Bastow)
Enfield rifles (Robert Bastow)
Engine cylinder ridge (Dave Baker)
Epoxy (Ed Huntress)
Exact boring (Robert Bastow)
Making an expanding collet (Robert Bastow)
Faceplate preparation (Robert Bastow)
Files (Robert Bastow; Russ Kepler)
Float glass (Robert Bastow)
Fluorescents (Don Wilkins)
Flywheel balance (Carl Byrns)
Forges (Rick Cook; Robert Bastow)
Friction cutting (Robert Bastow)
Friction welding (Robert Bastow)
Gage block care (Russ Kepler)
Galvanic corrosion (Barry L. Ornitz)
Gas cylinders (Robert Bastow)
Gauge rollers (Robert Bastow)
Gerardi vises (Robert Bastow)
Grinding (Mike Graham; Robert Bastow)
Hammer shaft replacement (Robert Bastow)
Handwheel handles (Robert Bastow)
High-powered machines (VAntonova)
Hole-to-hole measurement (Robert Bastow)
Hollow milling cutters (Robert Bastow)
Hot-rolled steel (Robert Bastow)
Breaking HSS (Robert Bastow)
Grinding HSS (Ed Huntress; Carl J.)
Hydrochloric acid (Don Wilkins; Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen)
Internal thread lapping (Robert Bastow)
Jargon (Robert Bastow)
Keyless chucks (Mike Graham)
Knurling (Robert Bastow)
Lapping (Robert Bastow)
Lathe bearings (Robert Bastow)
Lathe bed regrinding (Robert Bastow)
Lathe moving (Robert Bastow)
Lathe size (Robert Bastow)
Lead-acid batteries (Don Wilkins)
Leaded steel (Russ Kepler)
Leveling (Robert Bastow)
Lubriplate (J. Kimberlin)
Machine base materials (Ed Huntress)
Machine table fix (Robert Bastow)
Machine warpage (Robert Bastow)
Magnum Mauser (Robert Bastow)
Memory metal (Dan Clingman)
Mercaptan odor (Don Wilkins)
Mercury (Don Wilkins)
Micrometer adjustment (Robert Bastow; Ted Edwards)
MIT (Doug White)
Nitric acid (Don Wilkins)
Oak (Robert Bastow)
Oilite (Robert Bastow; Ted Edwards; Scott Logan)
Painting polyethylene (Barry L. Ornitz)
Paint stripper (Ed Huntress; Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen)
Parkerizing (Mark Serbu; Dave M)
Parting off (Robert Bastow)
Patents (Doug White)
Patina (J. Kimberlin; John De Armond; John Whitmore; Robert Bastow)
PCB drilling (Barry L. Ornitz)
Picric acid (Barry L. Ornitz)
Pilot hole (Robert Bastow)
Piston acceleration (Dave Baker)
Piston filing-to-fit in Egypt (Robert Bastow)
Piston reaming (Dave Baker)
Pistons (PLAlbrecht; Dave Baker; Ed Huntress)
Plaster of Paris (Don Wilkins)
Platinum (boris beizer; Don Wilkins)
Reamers (Dave Baker; Robert Bastow)
Roller feeders (Robert Bastow)
Centering round stock for crossdrilling (Robert Bastow)
Scraping (Robert Bastow)
Self-adjusting steady rest (Robert Bastow)
Self-replicating machines (Robert Bastow)
Shaper operation (Robert Bastow)
Sharpening (Arno Hahma; Robert Bastow; Ted Edwards)
Shim cutting (Robert Bastow)
Shop floors (Robert Bastow)
Slide lock (Robert Bastow)
Socket head unbodgering (Robert Bastow)
Soldering flux (Barry L. Ornitz; J. Kimberlin)
Soldering iron tinning (kenneth knaell)
Soldering SMD chips (Gary Coffman)
Soldering stainless steel (Barry L. Ornitz)
Solvents (Barry L. Ornitz; Dave Baker; Don Wilkins; Jerome Kimberlin)
Spark plug dissolving (knut pedersn)
Spite fence (Bill Machrone)
Spring steel (Robert Bastow; Tom Holt)
Stainless steel's magnetism (Carl Ijames)
Steel requirements for a battleship (kenneth knaell)
Stellite (Ted Edwards)
Stiction (Robert Bastow)
Loosening a stuck chuck (Robert Bastow)
Tailstock realignment (Robert Bastow)
Tapping (Robert Bastow; Jim Rozen)
Tap remove (J. Kimberlin; Robert Bastow; Russ Kepler; VAntonova)
Robert Bastow (Robert Bastow)
Threading by hand (Ed Huntress)
Threading (Robert Bastow)
Titanium (Dave Baker)
Trepanning (Robert Bastow)
Turcite (Robert Bastow; Ted Edwards)
UK gun laws (Robert Bastow; Tom Holt)
Valve grinding (Dave Baker)
Valve sizes (Dave Baker)
Valve steels (Dave Baker)
Viton (Don Wilkins)
Water glass (Don Wilkins; PLAlbrecht)
Way oil (Robert Bastow)
Measuring wear (Robert Bastow)
Welding (John De Armond; Don Clarke; Robert Bastow)
Workbenches (Robert Bastow)
Physics
Horsepower (Bruce Hamilton; Jordin Kare; John De Armond)
Hypervelocity impact (John De Armond)
Environment
Home furnace efficiency improvements (John De Armond)
Hot water tank heat loss (John De Armond)
Paper mills (E. Michael Smith; John De Armond)
Cars
Fuels, Engine Control, Dynamics, Sensors
Diesels operating on propane (E. Michael Smith; John De Armond)
Methanol (Bruce Hamilton; Gregory Milligan; John De Armond; Mike Smith; Russ Cage)
Oxygenates (E. Michael Smith; John De Armond; Russ Cage; Bruce Hamilton)
Politics, Society, Companies
CAFE (John De Armond; Tom Leone)
Cobb County ticket revenue (John De Armond)
Electric car heaters (John De Armond)
Sodium-sulfur batteries (Russ Cage)