Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

When I first started using lithium carbonate (LiCO3) I described it as comparable to ‘insulin’ that is, a substance that the body needed but was not capable of producing in effective quantities itself. This study seems to confirm that or at least hints at it:

The world’s largest vehicle maker said it will allow royalty-free use of about 5,680 patent licences, including 1,970 related to fuel-cell stacks and 3,350 concerning fuel-cell system control technology.

The firm also said the free patent licences will include about 290 items related to high-pressure hydrogen tanks.

The cost-free licences will be allowed “through the initial market introduction period” of fuel cell vehicles, which the company expects to last until about 2020.

Toyota will also open about 70 patent licences related to hydrogen stations—the equivalent of gas stands for internal combustion vehicles, and a vital link in the chain for drivers—indefinitely for manufacturers and operators.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-toyota-fuel-cell-patents-boost-industry.html#jCp

This lucky encounter was posted online in mid December. The videographer sounds a bit nervous but got some great footage:

Written by Tommy Ramone in 1974:

And here’s a couple of nice Ramones fixes to go with it. First, their appearance on 15 Sep 74 at CBGB’s in NYC:

And this the entire raw demo recording of their first album:

Never have so many different people from so many different parts of Earth with access to high quality telescopic and photographic equipment had the ability to post them as widely as the internet now makes possible.

These are just a few of the hundreds now viewable on Spaceweather.com:

Astronomer David Levy famously quipped that comets are like cats, “they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.” He was referring to the notorious difficulty of predicting what a comet will do as it nears the sun. If Lovejoy keeps brightening at the same rate, it should put on its best show in the weeks after the close approach to Earth.

From multi-ton computer driven public pieces to hand-cranked pieces weighing a few centigrams, kinetic sculptures have reached new levels of wonder.
These were collected from Cracked.com:

This is a wonderful and quite heart-warming idea

Long before there were Swiss Army Knives, Leatherman multi-tools, or Boy Scout mess kit pocket knives, the Romans were fashioning them out of silver and iron:

This one is in the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Here is its description:

Name: compound utensil

Date: 201 — 300 CE

Description: eating implement, folding, with three-pronged fork, spatula, pick, spike and knife.

Production
Place (legacy): Mediterranean, production, region

Materials: knife: iron; other tools: silver

Dimensions: height: 88 mm [3.5″]   width: 155 mm [6″]

The Fitzwilliam Museum has a large online gallery:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk