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Time for today’s chemical report. So far we have:

Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Ammonium Laureth Sulfate, Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate, Ammonium Xylenesulfonate, Behenyl Alcohol, Benzyl alcohol, BHT, Bisabolol, Butylene Glycol, Butyloctyl Salicylate, Butylparaben, Calcium Pantothenate, Caprylic/CapricTriglyceride, Cellulose Gum, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteth-10 Phosphate, Cetyl Alcohol, Citric acid, Clycol Distearate, Cocamide MEA, Codium Tomentosum, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dicetyl Phosphate, Dimethicone, Ensulizole, Ethylparaben, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Hydrated Silica, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Isobutane, Isobutylparaben, Isohexadecane, Laureth-23, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Methylparaben, Octocrylene, PEG-100 Stearate, PEG-32, PEG-7M, Phenoxyethanol, Polyquaternium-10, Propane, Propylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Propylparaben, Pyrithlone zinc, SD alcohol 38-B, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Monoflurophosphate, Sodium Saccharin, Sodium Stearate, Sorbitol, Stearic Acid, Stearyl Alcohol, Tocopherol, Triethanolamine, Triethanolamine, Trimethylolpropane Tricaprylate/tricaprate, Trimethylolpropane Triethylhexanoate, Xanthan Gum, Zinc Citrate Trihydrate, Zinc Oxide

Some were ingested, some rubbed into my skin/scalp. Some placed on my skin then scraped off with a sharp edge. And that’s just before 9 AM.

Oh, the propane came from my shaving cream. What?

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As reported by Yahoo!, Deborah Jin, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has created a new exotic form of matter:

“What we’ve done is create this new exotic form of matter,” Deborah Jin, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s joint lab with the University of Colorado, who led the study, told a news conference.

The material is called a fermionic condensate.

Unfortunately, this is not Flubber (what is Flubber?). They’re still working on that.

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I wish I had something poignant to say about the Columbia shuttle being destroyed this weekend. I don't really. Fact is, I've given little thought to the shuttle program for the past several years. As one news report pointed out over the weekend, most Americans couldn't even name 1 of the 7 astronauts that died that day. Before Saturday, I'm sorry to say that I couldn't either.

NASA has done an excellent job at making spaceflight safe. The launches and returns have become so much like clockwork that we hardly pay them any attention anymore. If nothing else, I will do my best to honor the memories of the Columbia crew and pray for each flight in the future.

The STS-107 crew: Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Ilan Ramon. My deepest sympathies to their families -- we are in your debt.

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Antarctic Sea Ice Increases over Past Two Decades: In a surprising departure from other findings that point to a warming planet, a NASA researcher has found that the amount of ice in the Antarctic increased from 1979 to 1999, as measured by satellites. Is all the global warming hoohah just based on a myopic view of global weather patterns? I hope so. The optimist in me has a feeling that this ol' planet is more resilient than we make it out to be.

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This report(via washingtonpost.com) has me excited at the prospect of cheap energy-- something we could all use. I hope it's not a false alarm.

Reading the article and the process the scientists went through in their discovery is kinda unsettling though: "researchers took advantage of a phenomenon called sonoluminescence .... The phenomenon is not completely understood, but ...... The researchers created a sound wave .... The wave created oscillations ... As the sound wave oscillated, the low-pressure vacuum turned into a high-pressure zone and the bubble collapsed with intense force, creating temperatures as hot as the sun for a few trillionths of a second" (emphasis mine).

(blink)

Is it just me or was that not scary? I mean-- what if the effect lasted more than a few trillionths of a second? What if they caused a chain reaction that they couldn't control and spun out of control vaporizing the planet? Well?? I guess I wouldn't be blogging about it, but it would tick me off (at least for a trillionth of a second before I turned into a whisp of smoke).

*poof*

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