Here’s a really interesting article announcing the discovery of a new heat-treating method for steel that makes it 7% stronger.  I find two points interesting.  The first is that there’s such a big deal about the discovery being made by a “self-taught metallurgist.”  Aren’t pretty much all the big discoveries made by the self-taught?  And look around — aren’t the colossal problems facing us the creation of well-schooled “experts?”

Second, this picture accompanied the article:

Why the need to trumpet the “Environmentally Friendly Flowing Water Quench?”  What, for the love of all that’s holy, is wrong with us?

Kudos to Gary Cola.  You’re what makes America great.