11Sep/070
Christopher Hitchens Speaks at Google
64 mins, Watch all the Q&A. At about 11 mins to go he is asked about Guantanamo, his reply is interesting given his support of the Iraq war.
9Aug/070
St Andrews reverse Casmir force
Researchers at St Andrews university claim to have been successful at revering the Casmir force, a force similar to the van der Waals force between molecules. The net effect of this is that objects could be made to repel each other at very close distances, effectively removing a lot of friction (as long as the two planes are _very_ flat).