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Comment: Washington Monument (Score 4, Informative) 96

by Bueller_007 (#38746680) Attached to: Spider Silk Cape Goes On Display

Not many people know it, but the apex of the Washington Monument is made of aluminum. At the time, it was the largest piece ever crafted anywhere in the world and it was a precious metal. Only two years later, aluminum became completely worthless when the Hallâ"Héroult process for mass production of pure aluminum was discovered.

Comment: Useless Editors... Again... (Score 0, Redundant) 341

by Bueller_007 (#32909962) Attached to: The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg
The link provided in the summary is to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cookie_setting_error.html. Are you shitting me? I mean, come on. Don't "editors" actually bother to click on the links?

The link to the abstract of the article is here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123506601/abstract

It reads:

Growing a good egg: Metadynamics simulations show that the eggshell protein ovocleidin-17 induces the formation of calcite crystals from amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles. Multiple spontaneous crystallization and amorphization events were simulated; these simulations suggest a catalytic cycle that explains the role of ovocleidin-17 in the first stages of eggshell formation (the picture shows one intermediate of this cycle).

And for what it's worth, this article is completely irrelevant to the question at hand, and the egg came well, well before the chicken.

Comment: Re:Good, let them (Score 2, Interesting) 1238

by Bueller_007 (#32232668) Attached to: Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History

"That'll give my child that much bigger of an advantage in about 15 years when she's applying for jobs."

Not if she's an American child, it won't. Texas is far and away the largest orderer of textbooks in America, so textbook makers cater to their standards. If Texas doesn't want it in the textbooks, it will largely be cut out of textbooks nationwide.

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