It was the 1990's and the Internet was erupting like a two-liter bottle of diet cola full of Mentos. Everybody was inventing new electronic devices to go with it, but nobody knew how to keep them from overheating. That's when Tony Kordyban made up a story about some engineers wiring together psychic human brains to build a new communications network. It became the hilariaous framework for teaching heat transfer to the techies laying the foundations of the Internet. That was published as "Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong" in 1998. That book be...