So now I'm finding appropriate stories on The Inquirer...
A bit of background colour for Comrade Fnord: LED developed in Russia in the 1920s, and possibly the transistor, too...
Something for WireGeek: Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology develop electrically-conductive cement - and it's transparent if it's thin enough!
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
A bit of background colour for Comrade Fnord: LED developed in Russia in the 1920s, and possibly the transistor, too...
Something for WireGeek: Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology develop electrically-conductive cement - and it's transparent if it's thin enough!
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012