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Building New Materials With Light
ckwu writes "Since the 1970s, physicists have used laser beams to trap and study small objects, from cells down to individual atoms. Now, electrical engineers at the University of Southern California have developed a simple optical system that assembles hundreds of nanoparticles into two-dimensional structures using a single laser beam and a silicon photonic crystal. This compact optical trap fits on a small chip and could eventually help researchers make materials for new types of sensors, optical devices, and chemical filters."
Did you know that a few years ago, 21 US states recorded record LOW temperatures? Now isn't it odd this wasn't widely reported in the media, I mean you would think record low temps would be newsworthy. They certainly do report record high temps.
.. oh yeah. Low temps don't fit the Global Warming agenda. You didn't really think the news media was objective, did you? The five (FIVE) corporations that control all major news media (TV, newspapers, magazines, radio) are amazingly homogeneous in their views, sorta like the way the few wireless carriers in the US are amazingly homogeneous in their service levels and pricing (they ALL overcharge for texting for example).
But oh
You know if there truly is such a thing as anthropogenic global warming, nothing has destroyed its credibility among intelligent thinking people more than all the selective reporting, political games, and obvious biases on the part of its advocates. One would think that those with the facts on their side have no need to resort to such propaganda-style tactics.
Asshole.
This is simply poor moderation. Yes, he's wrong. But he's not wrong about everything. He's absolutely right about the framing done by the media. It's done on every issue and something everyone should keep in mind when choosing sources and deciding what to believe.
But even if he was completely wrong, it is better to let the ideas he's sharing come to light. Someone else searching for "Alaska glacier growing" could be lead here as a result. They'd read his post, then the one under it, and hopefully come away more knowledegable.
Now that won't happen because you're voting on the position instead of actually moderating. We're all stupider and worse off because you think "-1" means "I disagree."
Now, an argument could be made that the parent was offtopic. But that's not how it was moderated. And I'll bet dollars to donuts the same mod who downmodded the parent upmodded the sibling.
tl;dr: Good job, mod. You're part of the problem.