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Some stories just don’t go away, but get curiouser and curiouser. Now they’ve taken the substance, called graphene, and made a transistor one atom thick by ten atoms wide. That’s pretty damned small and may lead the way to even more breakthroughs in this field. Can the marvels of science keep coming to fruition in the vacuum of knowledge without spirit. Firstly, I think not. Secondly, I believe that it is in the sub-atomic and quantum realities that we will start to rediscover the true harmony of science and spirit.

Here’s the article on the BBC News about the graphene transistor

I got a kick out of this item on The Onion that was posted yesterday, and figured it best to share it with the world right here. If you don’t get a laugh out of this one, you should probably 1) lighten up and/or 2) ask yourself why?

Here’s the piece on Oprah’s new Reality

While I can’t say that any entry on this list shouldn’t be here, I can say that anyone could remove one and add another, not listed, and pretty much be spot-on right anyway. The fact that it’s NFL.com publishing the opinion on their own “product,” if you will, actually bothers me more than it delights me. As a lifelong football fan, I’ve been recently concerned and more recently disturbed by the NFL’s seeming need to be the entity that covers football “better than anyone else.” The top-10 list I’m linking to is pretty cool and somewhat informative, but could’ve been done by any other reporting entity and maintained a lot more journalistic credibility. In my mind, if the NFL is interested in investing in and, through that investment, profiting from an all-football TV channel and/or website, it should do so. On the other hand, to unabashedly cover ones own efforts and expect the public to assume unbiased coverage is stretching the limits.

Check out the Top-10 List of Draft Day Steals as compiled by NFL.com

A major breakthrough in studying the universe, quantum mechanics and more? Maybe. It certainly seems that this breakthrough might be a little more palatable than the £4.5 Billion CERN Particle Accelerator, which is surrounded by controversy. The push to scientifically discover and then exploit a singularity is the fear attached with the CERN project. Could this lessen the danger of such research? I certainly hope so. However, it should be noted that the thought of danger in this research has been — conveniently or not — associated with irrational fear of the unknown. At any rate, this sure was an interesting read.

Check out the story on The Telegraph

First off, it’s a shame that some societies are so misogynistic that we have to realize the horrible realities that this story points too; however, it is certainly instructive to see what kind of effect a social networking site such as FaceBook can have in a restrictive environment. I also find it an interesting contrast to the posting I placed here last week. It seems that in the United States, we have the child killing the parent over social networking sites, and in the Middle East, it’s the parent that takes the child out. Whatever happened to the idea that individuals have both value and rights.

Read the article on the Daily Mail regarding this tragic parental reaction to a daughter’s use of FaceBook

I’ve been hearing that “print media is dead” ever since the widespread proliferation of the world-wide web in the early to mid nineties. Certainly, I’ve assigned a certain level of accuracy to that understanding. Today, I’ve received confirmation in the form of this clip from my favorite TV series. If they joke about it in “The Simpsons,” is must be true!

Check out the video clip

When I read this particular article, it comes to my mind that we just don’t have our priorities straight. Talking about son turning on father — and for MySpace!!?? then the teenager has the wherewithal to say, “I Miss Dad.” Let’s just hope that the obviously hidden good that can possibly come out of this can come to the surface sooner than later.

Read the article about this tragedy