Cold fusion in the NYT

[Stephen Cope]

Tracy Reed wrote:
> The story of the accidental discovery of teflon is here at the bottom:
> 
> http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/ptfe.htm

The author's writing style is great. Especially this paragraph:

    This is the kind of accident that makes science fun. There are
kinds of accidents in science which aren't fun, say, those which
involve large explosions and huge clouds of toxic gasses, but we won't
talk about those right now. The fun kind of accident, which all
scientists hope for, is an unexpected discovery which opens up a whole
new area of investigation. This kind makes you famous and gets you
lots of research grants, if you work at a university. If you work for
a chemical company, it makes a lot of money for the corporate
shareholders, and then you get to keep your job when downsizing time
comes.

-- 
Stephen Cope - http://sdc.org.nz/