Petroleum Product of the Week: TENTS
Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, we don’t often mourn the waning days of summer. From early June to late August, our…
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“Intelligent” machinery threatens to take the manufacturing jobs of millions – and “experts” believe this to be a good thing
If you’ve stepped inside a modern manufacturing plant, you have probably witnessed, first-hand, the brilliance of industrial machinery. For whatever…
How nanorobotics seek to extend the human life-span.
The field of study is known as nanorobotics. Science-fiction authors have long theorized the potential of these types of machines…
Petroleum Product of the Week: Jelly Beans
Jelly beans are a pretty divisive candy. Some love them – and others just really hate the licorice ones. There are…
Who really invented the wheel? (And what took us so long?)
As a nation, we’ve all grown way too accustomed to the presence of the wheel. Still, it makes sense; for…
Top 5 Iconic Rides from modern Hollywood Films and their Famous (or infamous) Drivers
There's been a lot of cool movies, a lot of cool cars, and a lot of cool actors driving cool cars. We've seen endless…
Pennsylvania once provided 1/3 of the world’s oil. The result? 200,000 abandoned and explosive oil wells.
In March of 1848, a Mormon merchant named Samuel Brannan confirmed the discovery of vast amounts of gold buried in the…
Petroleum Product of the Week: Plastic Bags
There was once a drawer in your kitchen that served a higher purpose. It held forks, knives, and spoons –…
How old is crude oil? And where did it really come from?
Our world burns 3,570,000,000 gallons of crude oil per day. To put this in perspective, we can say that this…
How America helped create the trillion-dollar Saudi Arabian Oil Industry
September 1933, a few miles inland from the Persian Gulf, near Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Two American geologists lag behind a…