August 13, 2020

Apparently, there’s a musician from New Zealand called Lorde. Her real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor or something like that. You might want to check my spelling. Anyway, she’s apparently a thing. Or was. Or something.

The reason I know she was something will become apparent within the next 24 hours or so. But honestly, I don’t remember hearing any of her stuff on the radio. If I did, I wasn’t paying attention.

Now, that’s not to say she’s not talented. After all, her first record sold more copies than the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards recording of “Amazing Grace,” so that’s something.

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(“Nifty” isn’t it.)

Chemists Discover Way To Make New Nitrogen Products ‘Out of Thin Air’
Yale University via Phys.org / August 12, 2020
A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products—from dyes to pharmaceuticals—out of thin air.
The discovery comes from a team of Yale chemists who found a way to combine atmospheric nitrogen with benzene to make a chemical compound called aniline, which is a precursor to materials used to make an assortment of synthetic products.
A study describing the process appears in the journal Nature.
“In the long run, we hope to learn how to use the abundant nitrogen in the air as a resource for synthesizing the products needed by society,” said Yale chemistry professor Patrick Holland, senior author of the study.

Let’s see: remove carbon and nitrogen from the atmosphere…. What could possibly go wrong?

Libs… Bless their hearts.