Cosmic Buckyball Particle ‘Factory’ Discovered
For the first time, “buckyballs” have been discovered in the cosmos in a solid form.
Until now, the only evidence in space for the bizarre little hollow balls of carbon atoms have been in interstellar gases, but with the help of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered buckyballs accumulating and stacking atop one another to form solid particles.
Holy Buckminster!
A relic of the Iran-Iraq war, this oil tanker was scuttled near the Kuwait-Iraq border on Saddam Hussein’s orders, to block access by sea to southern Iraq. Kuwaiti authorities are reluctant to remove the vessel for fear of damaging the wetlands of nearby Bubiyan Island, an important fish nursery and seabird breeding ground. Photo: Thomas P. Peschalk
“if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them”
contemplativecomputing.orgUK-based futurists Andrew Curry, Victoria Ward and Sabine Jaccaud have recently completed a study of the future of the library. Ward’s company Spark Now has a description of the project on its blog, and this jumped out at me:
The futur…
A very good and thoughtful article by Alex. And I agree with the values that lies in the future if the library. What I have difficulty with is how the current staff will take the ideas there. To me the people who is involved in library work seems too narrowly educated, and by far not represented on the levels in society which would be needed to perform such a transformation into the future. Maybe the a brutal reinvention is the only way to come to the library of the future?
