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Plastic fantastic seals in speeding projectiles
Layered polymer nanomaterial wraps around penetrating particles
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346099/title/Plastic_fantastic_seals_in_speeding_projectiles
To me this is really interesting, beyond the raw science, as a way to potentially build better shields for spacecraft. My understanding of current space craft …
I have babbled about how the rich actually have a negative incentive to bolster the economy; well at Jared Bernstein’s blog (I am a regular reader) he provides a graph that I think seals the case (from this post: “…
US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother
Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/05/muslim-no-fly-qatar
I know I talked about easing up …
Actually, it is the “Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economic Sciences” that was created “in memory” of Alfred Nobel…
The Nobel Prize in Economics? There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics
http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-is-no-nobel-prize-in-economics/
Any of this sound familiar?
…Promoters of central
I don’t have that many reader(s), but felt that I would do my tiny part in promgulating yet another instance of partisian involvement in the operation of supposed non-partisan arms of the government…
Republican Pressure Leads to Withdrawal of Fact-Based …
I wasn’t going to comment on Sandy and its depredations along the coast but after seeing article after article (or perhaps the exact same article hawked at many places, I never actually read any of it) babbling about how Sandy …