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What's the application? Using lasers to reduce the speed of a sample of atoms, thereby reducing their temperature to a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
Last week, I wrote about ion traps as a possible quantum computing platform, which are probably the best established of the candidate technologies.
I announced my intention to do some research blogging a

'"If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone," Pinker writes, "the world would be a matriarchy."'

...until the first oil change came due. Envy is feminine distortion of masculine geed. One whines about the present, the other creates the future. A slighted woman will hate you forever. Men playing football smashing each other's faces into the mud will later go out for beers.

A world run by women stinks of soured breast milk and unchanged diapers as the best offspring are sacrificed to lend succor to the worst. Hush... I hear it scratching at my door even now.