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Plastic Guitars Strike a Chord

The plastic guitars I originally wrote about in Reactive Reports the chemistry webzine years ago are almost ready for market according to the SciScoop Science News Forum: Plastic guitars strike a chord

The inventors of the plastic guitar, based at Loughbourough University, are showcasing a range of innovative, high-quality acoustic and electric guitars made almost entirely from polymers. The three models, a hybrid wood/polymer acoustic, an all-polymer acoustic and a semi-hollow electric, feature patented foamed polymer technology that gives outstanding sound quality, apparently. Personally, I’m holding out for an Alex Lifeson signature Gibson ES355 in white (of Rush Natural Science fame).

Olivia Newton John “Born again”

I’m in shock! Cambridge-born singer with the Aussie accent, Olivia Newton John, star of Grease (the movie) and Xanadu, is the granddaughter of Nobel physicist Max Born.

However, another site cites her maternal grandfather as being Welshman Max Born, allegedly a professor of German at Cambridge and Melbourne.

I plucked up the courage to visit her “official” site, where it is confirmed that it’s Max the physicist and not Max the Welshman. Thank goodness for that, otherwise there would have been no credence to the nickname she received among pre-teens during the 1970s of Olivia Neutron Bomb.

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I posted my first web page in December 1995, it was the online version of my first chemistry news roundup, a column I dubbed Elemental Discoveries, the RSC younger chemist magazine formerly known as Gas Jar, which I’d renamed along with Dr Mac as “New Elements”. That column persisted on various free servers until I got patronage from a well-known chemistry software company who began hosting it thereafter until I registered the domain name Sciencebase.com in July 1999. This post is just holding page to give visitors a bit of history. Thank you very much. Come again.