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gotta get this stuff down before it escapes:

Nanotechnology

Bought IBM stock today. Yes it brought down the NYSE at the close of the day but it met analysts' earnings estimates, and it's investing in nanotechnology.

School Science/Math project ideas: Music and the Golden Ratio; Statistics and Baseball's Greatest Hitters; Math and Fantasy/Rotisserie Soccer/Baseball; solar cell; electric dragster; Lewis Carroll puzzles; food science and enzymes/sprouts.

Other stocks: Varian Medical Sys. VAR; Gilead Sciences; Enbridge; EnCana; BYDFF; Brazil Fund; mPhase Technologies; A123 Systems; Oak Ridge Micro-Energy (OKME); Ultralife Batteries (ULBI);

* Microsemi (MSCC, news, msgs), where about 40% of sales are made up of analog/mixed-signal chips that manage light, sound and power for electrical devices,

* Vicor (VICR, news, msgs), the maker of the VI line of high-efficiency, low-heat power-converter chips, and

* Maxwell Technologies (MXWL, news, msgs), the global leader with a 27% market share in ultra-capacitors, an alternative to batteries for energy storage. * Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM, news, msgs). The company produces about 65% of the lithium that comes out of the Salar de Atacama region of Chile. Recoverable reserves there make up 20% of the world's known reserves.

* FMC (FMC, news, msgs). The company produces lithium from Argentina's Salar de Hombre Muerto region, where recoverable reserves are estimated at 11% of global known reserves.

http://electricandhybridcar.com/electric/we-need-dilithium-crystals/

Did Mozart Use The Golden Ratio?