As we start a new year, we want to focus on aspects of our world. Specifically, aspects which impact both our lives and the protection of the products we produce as a society. Correspondingly, one of these areas is air pollution and its respective impact around the world.
The end of the year is always marked by all sorts of lists and countdowns. I enjoy the symbolism of ending one chapter and beginning of another. As I see it, there is no more natural time than now to do this. My favorite list this year is PhysicsWorld.com’s Physics Breakthroughs of 2014. "Breakthroughs" in this case being defined as, "a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development" in accordance to the Oxford English Dictionary. For the purpose of our post, we see it as pure innovation.
Reactive barrier protection offers real-time benefits, as discovered by Tom Daschle. A former US Senate Majority Leader, he was also the target of an attack during the fall of 2001.
His office received an envelope of Anthrax. This was true, too, for other politicians and journalists. The envelope involving Daschle, arrived at his personal office exposing some of his staffers to it as well.
His office was quickly quarantined.