1 Liquid wood?
2. An excellent appreciation of MLK.
4. Luigi Zingales offers advice to Tim Geithner.
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maybe i don’t get something, but isn’t plastic also recyclable and wood supplies are limited just like petroleum?
Not all plastic is recyclable, Alex. Plastic is basically very long chain hydrocarbon molecules. In order to recycle it, you have to melt down the plastic so that you can resell it as stock (basically little plastic pellets) for making new plastic goods. Unfortunately, many of the plastics in use degrade when they are heated and cooled in the process of recycling, so that the applications of the recycled material are limited as compared to the applications of the virgin material. Until now, research had been focused on finding processes that could recycle plastic without causing it to degrade. It sounds like these researchers have found a solution from the other end (e.g. finding materials that do not degrade during recycling).
i wish they could make liquid glass — is anyone working on that?
Plant-derived plastics are hardly new, are they? One can only assume that these ones are more useful or cheaper.
babar: Glass already is liquid. Especially if you hit it with a torch.
A good suggestion for Geinther; take an H&R Block tax course.
MLK here is very poignant to see
#3.
“But we don’t have a good measure of judicial quality.†
Ummm…Judges as public school teachers. If you don’t have a good measure of quality, they why aren’t you screaming about that rather than salaries?!?
#1. They will definitely need a better trade name than LiqWood.
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