Quoted: Media Lab student Neri Oxman creates art and structural designs that draw from the way nature works. That approach has already earned several of her works a place in the permenant collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Quoted: n a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally acknowledged to exist just five years ago, turns out to have a variety of unique, and potentially very useful, characteristics -- ones several MIT researchers are actively trying to better understand and turn into real-world applications.

I heard this guy on All Things Considered yesterday. Seems like a nice guy. Funny that he ended up working for ANSI, or maybe it has something to do with why he was chosen to be the unit in the first place?

And good news -- a Smoot has not changed in length, like the Foot used to. He's still the same height.