1115 Does Its Bit To Advance Scientific Knowledge

Let’s welcome Charles Krauthammer to the Balls-You-Need-An-Electron-Microscope-To-See club:

“What I want to say is — I don’t want to repeat his name — I don’t want Obama to fail,” he said, referring to radio host Rush Limbaugh. “I want our country to succeed. And when I criticize him, it’s because I think his ideas are misguided.”

Talk of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

At this rate, we’re going to need a more succinct name for Balls-You-Need-An-Electron-Microscope-To-See. In gross violation of Robert’s Rules of Order, I hereby propose, second and promptly adopt “buckyballs”. The appositeness of the term is attested to by the fact that the “van der Waals diameter of a (buckyball) molecule is about 1 nanometer (nm)”.