It’s one atom thick, lighter than paper, 300 times stronger than steel, harder than a diamond, 1000 times more conductive than silicon & can stretch more than 20% of its original length. Something that will doubtless find a market making bullet proof evening gowns & tuxes for inner city dwellers.
You may never have heard of graphene, most people haven’t. You will soon though as this high-tech medium will shape virtually every part of our daily lives by the end of this decade. As you read this, researchers and scientists are working furiously for ways to transform this discovery into the Next Big Thing.
Spike Lee, segregationist.
Apparently, neighbourhoods improving over time is a bad thing.
Lee lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and recently listed his town house for $32 million.
Crappy neighbourhoods for you, glitz and glamour for me.
Y2Kyoto: About that data
It’s always about the discovery process.
So, forget Steyn’s case – the court victories that count, in terms of the scientific (and political) consequences, are entirely due to Tim Ball. By tenaciously and bravely defending his actions for three long years the mild-mannered septaugenarian has single-handedly proved that the very core of government climate science is junk. Thereby, this instance of ‘science on trial’ is no less significant, in the broadest sociatal context, as the infamous Scope’s Monkey Trial of 1925.
Edit: This seems to be in dispute. Use a load of salt. It was put up on request by Kate, and as I don’t follow the lawsuits, I can’t comment.
Operation Empty Chair
Powerline: Photo of the Day – The scene is Yarmouk, a district of Damascus that is populated largely by Palestinian “refugees” and has been the scene of heavy fighting. The U.N. gained access to Yarmouk and passed out food there. These people are hoping to get something to eat.
The Tolerant Left
Tears and screams from anti-Israel BDS movement after stunning defeat. With video!
Reader Tips
How does a supporter of a university’s anti-Israel boycott and divestment resolution react when she sees the resolution defeated? Let’s find out!
That is fun to watch.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Y2Kyoto: Cost? Cost? Piffle.
It’s for the good of the planet.
Via, Manny
For Your Evening Matinee Pleasure
From the movie “The Guns of Navarone.”
I would not want to anger Gregory Peck.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now is the time at SDA for a little nostalgia.
Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor running for president, has told an audience in New Hampshire that the United States “won’t always have the strongest military,” an assertion that drew a strong rebuke today from one of his rivals for the Democratic nomination. […]
Dr. Dean rejected that characterization of his comment. “What serious presidential candidate would ever say such a thing?” he said. “How ridiculous!”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
A 20 year contract….
A fool and his money are soon parted.*
16th Annual “Teddy” Awards
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has released the winners and nominees.
“The Teddy, the pig-shaped award given annually by the CTF to government’s worst waste offenders, is named for Ted Weatherill, a former federal appointee who was turfed in 1999 for submitting an imaginative collection of sketchy expense claims, including a $700 lunch for two.”
View the whole list. (PDF, 12pp)
It’s Probably Nothing
Here’s a collection of facts that could trigger you to vomit up your last meal. One to get you warmed up:
“10,000 baby boomers shall retire today, tomorrow and every day for the next 16 years”.
Meanwhile the taxpayers forced to care for them are taking home the smallest share of the income pie that has ever been recorded.
More on the greatest demographic tidal wave in the history of the United States
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
The crux of PETA’s problem with the Westminster Kennel Club is that it promotes the breeding of purebreds, which they say will “kill shelter dogs’ chances of finding a loving home.”
I am no veterinarian, but my intuition tells me that shelter dogs losing their chance at finding a loving home has less to do with the Westminster Kennel Club promoting purebreds and more to do with the overdose of barbiturates that PETA injects into the dogs’ bloodstreams.
Blog Notes
If you get the chance to cut across from I-15 south of Salt Lake to travel Hwy-89 through Page, Utah to Flagstaff, AZ – take it. The quick pics from my camera phone can’t do these justice.
I-15 between Great Falls and Helena in a snowstorm?
Not so much.
CNN vs. Ted Nugent
Obama apparatchik & CNN anchor, Erin Burnett, tried to crucify Ted Nugent but he refused to cower to her PC smear:
Why can’t Republican politicians stand their ground in this way?
More here.
How Baby Boomers Fear Telecommunting
Heh, I kill me.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips we get a chance to vicariously stand in the great outdoors without any gloves or toques, as Anderson Family Bluegrass performs an al fresco version of a song written by Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers called Harbor of Love.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
America’s Debt Crisis Explained
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Fingerprints: Obama’s Political History and the IRS Scandal