Excerpt from Energy of an Idea – Mac Dunlop
January 30th, 2010 | Published in Volume XIV: Underbelly
…”I remembered back when I was in school – some years ago now – we had a science teacher named Mr. Corbet who wore glasses, and liked to drink beer and talk sports at the pub where older students went after football practice. In class he showed us how a stick of ebony wood, and a stick of clear plastic can be ‘charged’ with static energy, by rubbing them with silk, or against you clothes even. I was really grateful because for the first time it explained how wiping a balloon on your hair in winter could make the balloon stick to almost anything, your clothes, the curtains or even the wall! And up to then I could never figure out how a balloon could defy gravity without being full of hot air, which even now I think is really quite something.”…