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It's Very Hard For Individual Inventors To Get Paid. For The Same Reason That Private Equity Is Valuable - Broadly, That's A Good Thing - In The Case Of Patents, Many That Own Them Aren't In A Good Position To Take The Next Step.

A Blowtorch Is A Wonderful Thing. You Can Get One Of Those For About 25 Bucks At Home Depot. And There's A Ton Of Things That You Can Use A Blowtorch For, In Browning A Steak Or Touching Up The Browning Of A Chicken Or Making Creme Brulee.

Computing Has Gone From Something Tiny And Specialized To Something That Affects Every Walk Of Life. It Doesn't Make Sense Anymore To Think Of It As Just One Discipline. I Expect To See Separate Departments Of User Interface, For Example, To Start Emerging At Universities.

The First Thing That Is Not Obvious To People Is Global Warming Is A Less-than-1% Effect. It's Like Being Shortchanged At The Bank By A Penny Every Dollar. Over A Long Period Of Time With Lots Of Transactions, That Piles Up.

Three Things About Water Affect Almost All Of Cooking. First Are The Hydrogen Bonds, Which Is Why It Has An Incredibly High Boiling Point. Another Is That It's A Polar Molecule, So That It Dissolves A Lot Of Things, And There Are Things That Won't Mix With It. And Then There's How Much Energy It Takes To Heat Water.