Nearly 20 years ago three guys from the University of Sussex were looking for dark matter. But shooting electrons on carbon rods they accidentally created a third elementary form of carbon. The buckminsterfullerene was good for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) but figuring out what to use it for has taken its time. We have come to recognize this molecule as an antioxidant or electron vacuum cleaner. Exploited in cosmetics and medicine we slowly understand this particular feature. But ‘fullerene technology‘ is still in the early stages of its life cycle. A buckyball with ‘protuberances’, for example, is found to help mice battle MS. Perhaps friendly because it is disguised as a soccer ball, but still nanotechnology that is changing your life! Do you mind?
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by Stephen Chan (Isbn-13: 9781848133044)
This is a magical realist book on world politics. Stephen Chan takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through how we can establish a new kind of international relations and construct a common future for the planet. The book's main argument is that international politics has failed because the certainties of singular traditions of philosophy fail to help us in understanding power shifts and struggles in an endlessly diverse world. Chan argues that fusing different strands of Western, Eastern,...
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