SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 9:11 A.M. ET:

From the Columbus Dispatch:  The anger that most people feel when they discover a scratch on their vehicles often turns to rage when they see the body-shop repair bills.  Those hard feelings might be avoidable someday, thanks to a team of researchers who say they've created a type of paint that can heal itself when exposed to ultraviolet light.  The idea improves on other experimental coatings that repaired themselves when exposed to heat, said Stuart Rowan, a polymer chemist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

I don't know about you, but I think that's a great idea.  Yankee ingenuity.  We now await a government agency coming in and demanding a ten-year-study to see if the new material will destroy the world.

April 21, 2011