This left several Explainer readers wondering: Just how many balloons would it take to lift a house? If Carl were trying to use regular old party balloons to fly his house, he’d need a whole lot ...

Raising a house—also known as house lifting, house jacking or, as one of our most expert authors swears is a real phrase “popping a box”—is a complicated project. It requires separating a ...

The conceit of the new Disney/Pixar cartoon epic, Up, is that an old guy's house gets attached to a bunch of helium balloons which lift it up out of the city and on a wonderful adventure.

Upon digging around in the journal’s archive, I found a few other gems… If you enjoyed the film Up, you might want to peruse the paper that asked how many helium balloons would actually be required to ...