Inventor(s): Justin Corless (Dallas, TX) Assignee(s): Hardware Resources, Inc. (Bossier City, LA) Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local) Application No., Date, Speed: 15291560 on 10/12/2016 (790 days app to issue)

The discovery means there are now new puzzles to solve, in terms of how time crystals form in the first place.

In the psp chiral SFG polarization combination (Fig. 3C), we observe a weak but nonzero chiral signal for the lipid bilayer without channels. This signal is caused by the chiral headgroups of the lipids inducing a chiral-polarized arrangement of water molecules near the polar region of the bilayer. The presence of the 2800-cm−1 stretching band in the chiral spp polarized spectra of the HC8 and S-HC8 channels (Fig. 3D) shows that both channels exhibit a net chiral ordering in the SLB. Although this feature is expected for the S-HC8 channel, this ordering shows that in addition to inducing a dipolar alignment of the water wires, the supported bilayer breaks the symmetry and also induces a net chirality for the HC8 channel (Fig. 3E).

But, throughout the history of art, and most evidently outside the West, color has carried with it a heavy freight of non-naturalistic value. Think of the iconic power of Byzantine mosaics, or the Gothic stained-glass and polychrome statuary that was offered as a vision of the heavenly Jerusalem. Color is social and moral, too. The colorman George Field, who opened the first of many factories of artists’ materials in 1808, near Bristol, England, considered his vocation to be the redemption of color from the murk of industrial obscurity—what he called “foul air.” He thought of himself as a reformer—manufacturing fresh reds, greens, and yellows to replace older, toxic pigments like cinnabar and orpiment. He inveighed against the poisonous horrors of Scheele’s, Paris, and Emerald Green, and championed viridian as a substitute, as if the ethical integrity of contemporary society were at stake; and, whenever science and industry supplied a new and safe color, he took it as providential. In 1856, William Perkin discovered the synthetic dye mauveine (Perkin’s Mauve), a purple that came from the residue of coal tar. Field responded in joyful terms to the transformation of the “black evil-smelling substance.” “At the touch of the fairy wand of science the waste land became a garden of tropic tints,” he wrote. “The world rubbed its eyes with astonishment and truly it seemed as wonderful to produce the colours of rainbow from a lump of coal, as to extract sunshine from cucumbers.”

Anthony Enahoro was just 29 years old when he moved the first motion for Nigeria’s independence in 1953.

The highest profile bump was the firm’s loss of nearly $800 million in the firm, Altegrity, that was contracted to review federal contractors like Edward Snowden.

But there are pros and cons to both. "Permanent color will grow out with a very distinct line, semi-permanent will wash out of your hair and not leave a line, but it doesn’t cover gray as well," says Hazan. For a more graduated, natural look, if only about 20 to 30 percent of your hair is gray, you can also opt for balayage, which works if you don’t have as many grays. "It will camouflage the gray and make it look like highlights," says Hazan.

Inventor(s): Yi Song (Irving, TX), Zhijun Cai (Irving, TX) Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, Ontario, , CA) Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 13627647 on 09/26/2012 (2267 days app to issue)

Inventor(s): Clive Bittlestone (Allen, TX), Joyce Kwong (Sunnyvale, CA), Manish Goel (Plano, TX) Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) Law Firm: No Counsel Application No., Date, Speed: 15898935 on 02/19/2018 (295 days app to issue)

For clean and green beauty enthusiasts that also want to keep their hair color top-notch, this blow-dry cream is made up of 98 percent natural ingredients. It also softens your hair and reduces frizz as you blow dry. ($20; ulta.com)

Something the ads don’t mention, however, is that both of those products contain lead acetate, a lead compound which the CDC lists as a possible carcinogen. The ingredient can be harmful, especially to children.

The late poet  and essayist Maxine Kumin’s In Deep: Country Essays (Viking) based on her unromanticized commitment to life on her New Hampshire farm, is well worth reading for an appreciation of the joys and challenges of rural life in our region – vibrant life, sad death, hard physical work and innumerable forms of beauty– through the seasons.