09 October 2010

Faster computers, lighter airplanes, transparent touch screens — the list of potential uses runs on. Some scientists say we can't even imagine what kinds of products might be possible with the substance, which hides in ordinary pencil lead and first was extracted using a piece of Scotch tape..."In this age of complexity, with machines like the super collider, they managed to get the Nobel using Scotch tape"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101006/ap_on_hi_te/eu_nobel_physics

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Paradoxically, the shut-down of the AMOC and the resulting cooling of Europe will be the best proof of global warming.

As TS Eliot said in The Hollow Men,  "  This is the way the world ends     Not with a bang but a whimper" We know not what changes...