STILLWATER, Okla.–A quirk of the clock and the calendar has given a Stillwater family an unforgettable memory.
When the time lined up on Wednesday afternoon at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09, it was more than just a twice-a-century alignment. They also had a unique reason to celebrate.
“It just so happened that when they took me back, when he got here, it was 12:34:56,” said Lydia Uhrig.
Her son’s birth certificate says his birth happened at 12:34:56 at 07/08/09.
Is just 20 days away.
I learned that reading this article, but I still don’t feel excited as I have in years past.
WASHINGTON — Imagine a carbon sheet that’s only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips.
That’s graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It’s creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers.
“It is the thinnest known material in the universe, and the strongest ever measured,” Andre Geim , a physicist at the University of Manchester, England , wrote in the June 19 issue of the journal Science.
“A few grams could cover a football field,” said Rod Ruoff , a graphene researcher at the University of Texas, Austin , in an e-mail. A gram is about 1/30th of an ounce.
Like diamond, graphene is pure carbon. It forms a six-sided mesh of atoms that, through an electron microscope, looks like a honeycomb or piece of chicken wire. Despite its strength, it’s as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, folded or rolled up like a scroll.
There are only four outdoor phone booths left in Manhattan – and they’re all on West End Avenue. That’s it: four.
