I really do need to keep better track of my daily Google Alerts.  Unfortunately, I’ve become somewhat immune to them.  The fusion alerts, in particular, are usually about the ITER or the NIF or some giant government funded fusion boondoggle. They show up in my inbox everyday, and I mostly ignore them. So I missed […]

Previously, Taylor Wilson was the youngest fusioneer, achieving fusion in his own home-built reactor at age 14. Now we have 13 year old Jamie Edwards: And now we know the missing ingredient in a successful fusion operation: Jamie Edwards is the boy from Preston who two weeks ago entered the record books as the youngest

Get out your Sam Cook records, kids… A Change Is Gonna Come. Fusor.net has been in business since 1998 – I think that's like several centuries in Internet years. Why, when we started this, it was all hand-cranked, remember? In the 15 years since its inception, Fusor.net has had three major incarnations. First there was

  Richard Hull with FusioneerJeanette Brown at the 2012 HEAS gathering So, you've heard of this place in Cambridge, Massachusetts called "MIT"?    Massachusetts Intitute of Technology. It's where all the really smart kids go to school.  The list of notable alumni is pretty impressive: Apollo 11 astronaucht Buzz Aldrin, current Fed chairman Ben Bernanke,

(originally published at Farnovision.com There's been an increase in traffic to the Farnovision site in the past week or so, which is quite possibly a result of the recent news that Philo T. Farnsworth – arguably the man who started it all – will be inducted next month into the Television Hall of Fame: This

The Braniac's version of "Friday Night LIghts" I just love stories likes this: Thanks to Carl Greninger and a partnership with Federal Way Public Schools, a select group of students are given the privilege of performing scientific experiments with Greninger's fully functional IEC-9000 nuclear fusion reactor. Greninger works as the IT operations program manager for

What do Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, New York City and Newark, NJ Mayors MIchael Bloomberg and Corey Booker, Russian punk-rock band Pussy Riot, and Fusioneer Taylor Wilson all have in common? The most recent issue of The Atlantic Magazine has named them and 20 other luminaries in its annual listing of "Brave Thinkers."

Seems our own Chad Ramey has been tapped as one of the must-see speaker/presenters at this year's Dragon-Con in Atlanta, held over the coming Labor Day weekend. The event is described as "four days, debauchery the likes of which would put Sodom and Gomorrah to shame takes over downtown Atlanta, as geeks from around the