Wise words.
Governor Gregoire on same sex marriage - Truly inspirational.
“The religions can decide what they want to do, but it’s not ok for the state to discriminate”
Devilishly tasty home-made Christmas pressies: Chocolate and cinnamon candied almonds, Salted maple and honey cashews and Crystallised Ginger.
A team of engineers claims to have created the world’s lightest material.
The substance is made out of tiny hollow metallic tubes arranged into a micro-lattice - a criss-crossing diagonal pattern with small open spaces between the tubes.
The researchers say the material is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and has “extraordinarily high energy absorption” properties.
“The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair,” said lead author Dr. Tobias Schaedler of HRL.
Image Credit: Dan Little, HRL Laboratories LLC
(via BBC)







