http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
Discoverer of a new class of materials
Among Stookey’s early projects at Corning was to develop glass coins during the Second World War, as an answer to a nationwide copper shortage. (The idea was scotched on grounds of expense, and zinc used instead of copper.)
RIP Stanley Stookey
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RIP Stanley Stookey
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.