Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Forget the revolting architecture nearby! The Quincy courtyard wins the prize for best lawn furniture--picnic tables and plastic chairs are everywhere in the courtyard. But be careful! Quincy has several sets of extremely treacherous stairs...
Hordes of chemistry TFs stagger by on JFK Street, laughing and dancing into the night. They aren t grading problem sets or torturing helpless students with orbitals, precipitation and thermochemical reactions. They are having fun. They ve shed the monogrammed lab coats and the protective plastic goggles in order to go out and spend the department s money...on beer...
...Today plastic is nearly everywhere, from the fillings in our teeth to the chips in our computers (researchers are developing flexible transistors made of plastic instead of silicon so they can make marvels such as a flat-panel television screen that will roll like a scroll up your living-room wall). Plastic may not be as vilified now as it was in 1967, but it's still a stuff that people love and hate. Every time a grocery clerk asks, "Paper or plastic?," the great debate between old and new, natural and synthetic, biodegradable and not, silently unfolds...
...Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland patents Bakelite, the world's first true plastic...
...invisible. The company, based in London, has developed a way to make speakers so transparent that they can overlay any flat surface--PC monitor, TV screen, picture frame, even car windshield. A prototype covers a laptop with a vibrating sheet of clear plastic and produces a stereo sound that seems to come right out of the screen. No licensees yet, but with tech this cool, it's only a matter of time...