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Alternatives quickly followed, such as two books attached by a pliant wrapper, akin to a Jacob’s ladder toy (but this was too flimsy). Later, we experimented with binding two volumes to a shared, ...

My daughter “Peyton” just turned two, and my idiot brother thought it would be funny to get her a plush poop emoji toy that makes fart noises when squeezed as a gift. This toy has become ...

DO: I like Jacob's Ladder in the Oddschecker Sefton Novices' Hurdle. Gordon Elliott has been patient with the son of Mount Nelson who has gradually gone up in class, winning a Grade Three at Navan ...

He starts with a basic Jacob’s ladder. We’ve seen many of these before, but the basic idea is to ionize the air between two parallel, vertical conductors; the hot plasma heats the air causing ...

We’ve covered a few tesla coils, but somehow we never hit this classic – making your own jacobs ladder. The spark climbing the increasing gap between a pair of electrodes is easy enough to ...