Rainy Golf Vacation Inspires Weather App
Philadelphia — How many times have you cursed the weather as it spoiled a vacation, wedding or freshly waxed car? Top among Jay Ciccarone’s weather disappointments was a soggy golf trip to California’s legendary Pebble Beach with his father 21 years ago. “I booked the trip and did not know January was the rainy season in Monterey,” he said. “Had I known this prior, I would have continued with our plans, although I would have been...
The Computer Heat Is Off, Maybe
Philadelphia — The concentrated heat radiating from your laptop. The sudden roar of the cooling fan from inside your desktop computer. Familiar signs of wasted energy, caused largely by the increasing numbers of transistors crammed into the innards of our electronic gadgets. As you reach once again for that charging cable, be aware that an amiable pair of University of Pennsylvania physicists may have hit on the beginnings of a...
