February 25, 2011

Reactive Lenses

There are glasses which increase their darkness in the presence of greater light. But they take some period of time to darken, and they darken unanimously across their surface. I think it should be possible to make some kind of material which would only blacken out distinct light sources (like the sun), from any angle, and preserve a florescent quality across the rest of the surface, or other angles. This would be invaluable to windshields as cars drive towards a sunrise or sunset.

February 8, 2011

Ignorance?

What is the source of ignorance? Is it really a smaller part of some other kind of human character? Or are we just ignorant? Should the limitation of knowledge be a justification for crimes of all types? Or should it be a call to a more humble kind of human progress?