AA. About the author

2015 U.S. Patent #8823197, “A Diagonal Solar Chimney”

2013 U.S. Patent #8408199, “Solar Reflector, Collecting Window and Heat Storage.”

I have allowed all of my patents and all of my patent applications to lapse into the public domain. I'm a public interest inventor.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1976. I have a Masters in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island, 1984. I have a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island, 1994.

I have taught for URI/Providence and for Bristol Community College. I have been employed part-time by the Pawtucket School Department since 2019.

I hacked the SAT in the year 2000 for my employer, Summit Educational Group of Watertown, Massachusetts. The SAT Mathematics test featured ten quantitative comparison questions. My own "never guess D" rule works as follows. Each quantitative comparison question gives you two equations. If equation A is always greater than equation B for every number, select A. If B is always greater than A, select B. If they are always equal select C. Otherwise select D. Each answer is right 25% of the time on average. To solve the question without understanding it, insert one easy number into the two equations. This eliminates two of the answers. D is always right 25% of the time, which makes the one remaining answer always right 75% of the time. Bingo! In 2003 the "New SAT" got rid of the easy points. You can't beat the house forever.

Between roughly 2006 and 2016 I posted articles about the "University of Beating Vegas like a Drum (UBVD)", first on the Boston Globe's site boston.com, then on patriotsfans.com, under the name "paulk". I featured Professor Vinnie whose uncle fixes the games and Professor Elwood P. Dowd whose invisible friend can actually see the invisible line of scrimmage that only TV aundiences can see, also phantom pass interference calls that only the refs can see. I also posted the prognostications that totally backed up my boasts. As a Quaker I never gambled, nor dod I ever charge money for gambling advice. I was just testing some theories.

The movie "Goodwill Hunting" may have some basis in fact. I left one of the world's first pairs of decimal dice, that I sawed out of wood, in the mailbox of the MIT gaming society at the far eastern end of the infinite corridor. I filed an unsuccessful patent application in 1977. I find most MIT computer science algorithms to be of little practical use in the world.

People in almost any group have had at least one profound spiritual experience, and others haven't had any such thing and they don't expect to ever have one. If you're in one of these categories, please be understanding of people in the other category. I'm in the first category. In November of 1981 I could see a barren, hot world, and a fire was coming out of an evil hole in the ground. I was told to go to college. I did. I took two years to get a Masters Degree in Political Science, because that's how we could stop this evil. Then after I graduated I found a job working as a research programmer for a climatologist. Then another year later my new boss started lecturing on this brand new thing that other climatologists had discovered, global warming.

I can recommend Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) silent meditation in groups. In my experience, the practice increases one's chances of having either wonderful spiritual experiences or sometimes bad dreams, which can lead you on in relation to the climate crisis. Some Quakers don't get it but many do.

Yours,

Paul Klinkman