Last May I had the opportunity to talk a while with Wired Magazine's Thomas Goetz about the idea of how people can take control their over own health care using… Read the rest of the article: The Decision Tree

Watching the nearly incomprehensible (for me anyway) Olympic men's short course team speed skating event on the television prompted me to do research that and find out it's the forty… Read the rest of the article: 45 Years of 43-Man Squamish

I wrote an article for this month's issue (January/February 2010) of The Atlantic Magazine on the interesting and far reaching cultural effects that small, inexpensive computers (like the Arduino) are… Read the rest of the article: DaVinci in Mud

Aaron Ristau, who showed me his some of his amusingly rendered sculptures at the last Maker Faire held in Austin, Texas has a new webpage. His work is sort of… Read the rest of the article: Mechanical Sculpture by Aaron Ristau

Maybe what's wrong with America's automotive industry is that we just don't innovate like we used to. I have an engineering degree and many years of experience, so I like… Read the rest of the article: The A-604 and the Recoil Flux Capacitor

1960 was a truly golden year in the annals of DIY history. Fifty years ago some of the most important how-to books in the history of making cool things came… Read the rest of the article: 2010: The Golden Anniversary of the best year ever for DIY Books

It seems our world is in danger, not of becoming too dangerous but of becoming too safe.

(Bill Gurstelle concludes his guest blogging stint here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst)… Read the rest of the article: Hittin' the Ole Dusty Trail

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Today's the… Read the rest of the article: On the Road with Kesey and Truman

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Well, my… Read the rest of the article: The Word Gets Out

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Uber-maker Bre… Read the rest of the article: Can Bre Pettis Replicate Himself?

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Am I… Read the rest of the article: Hit by a Rock from Outer Space?

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Eighty-five year… Read the rest of the article: George Bush Goes Skydiving

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) In the… Read the rest of the article: Why No Famous Scientists or Engineers?

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) I ordered… Read the rest of the article: Growing the Poison Pepper

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Back in… Read the rest of the article: Rocket Making for Amateurs – Another Living Dangerously Art

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Magnetism Studios… Read the rest of the article: Clever Interactive Forms

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Back when… Read the rest of the article: The Second Hundred Years of SOS Begins Today

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) Writing a… Read the rest of the article: A Monkey on My Back (non-metaphorically speaking)

(Bill Gurstelle is guest blogging here on Boing Boing. He is the author of several books including Backyard Ballistics, and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Twitter: @wmgurst) BoingBoing readers… Read the rest of the article: Scalin Skullpaper