Englische Wissenschaftler haben ein Glas entwickelt, dass Wärme von Aussen abschirmen kann, dabei jedoch Licht problemlos durchlässt. Bei normaler Raumtemperatur lässt das Glas sowohl normal sichtbares, als auch infrarotes Licht durch. Ab 29°C jedoch gibt es eine chemische Reaktion einer Substanz, die das Glas überzieht und es so veranlasst, infrarotes Licht abzublocken. Dies bewahrt den Raum davor bei direkter Sonneneinstrahlung oder bei steigender Aussentemperatur zu überhitzen.
Andere Lösungen, wie zum Beispiel gefärbtes Glas, reagieren nicht auf sich ändernde Umstände. Gefärbtes Glas ist zwar lichtundurchlässiger, hält einen Raum jedoch auch kühl, wenn ein wenig Sonnenwärme von Außen willkommen wäre. Die Erfinder dieses neuartigen Glases glauben, dass ihre Erfindung Architekten völlig neue Türen hinsichtlich der Konstruktion von grossen Gebäuden öffnen wird, bei denen viel Glas verwendet wird. Technologische Innovationen wie die intelligente Fensterbeschichtung öffnen eine Tür zu kreativerem Design.
Der jetzige Trend zu immer mehr Glas in Gebäuden stellte für die Architekten ein Dilemma dar. Sollen sie das Glas tönen und damit Einbußen in der Helligkeit in Kauf nehmen oder es unterlassen und damit die Kosten für die Klimatisierung in die Höhe treiben ? Das Glas ist mit der Chemikalie Vandiumdioxid behandelt. Dieses Material lässt sowohl die Wellenlängen von infrarotem Licht durch, als auch die von sichtbarem Licht und ändert diese Eigenschaft erst ab einer Temperatur von 70°C. Oberhalb dieser Übergangstemperatur verändern die Elektronen in dem Stoff ihre Anordnung. Dies macht das Material von einem Halbleiter zu einem Metall und blockt so das infrarote Licht.
Parkin und Manning ist es gelungen die Temperatur, bei der dies geschieht, auf 29°C zu senken, indem sie das Material mit Wolfram behandelten. Sie haben außerdem einen Weg gefunden, den Behandlungsprozess des Glases mit der Chemikalie in den konventionellen Glasherstellungprozess zu integrieren. So würde es relativ günstig sein mit dem Glas in die Massenproduktion zu gehen, schon in etwa drei Jahren.
Jedoch gibt es immer noch ein paar Probleme zu überwinden. Als erstes wäre da die eigentliche chemische Substanz, die nicht dauerhaft an dem Glas haftet. Außerdem hat der Überzug selbst noch einen leichten gelblichen Ton. Aber man könnte noch eine weitere Substanz hinzufügen, wie zum Beispiel Titaniumdioxide, um es an dem Glas fest haften zu lassen und man könnte eine Ausgleichsfärbung benutzen, um den Gelbton zu eliminieren.

A man said to an emperor, "You have conquered the whole world. This is unique. You are the first, and God is so happy that I can persuade him to bring his clothes for you. They will be simply without any comparison to what has ever existed or will ever exist again." God's clothes? The emperor could not believe it. But he thought, "What is the harm in it?" He said, "Remember, if you deceive me death will be the reward for it." The man said, "That I know; about that you need not be worried. But much money will be needed to go to heaven, to bribe the whole bureaucracy in heaven, because it is not easy to approach God." The king said, "How much it costs does not matter but you will have to stay next to this palace in another palace surrounded by the army. You cannot go out. You do whatsoever you want to do from inside. Everything will be supplied to you, and whatever you ask for will be immediately given to you. You bring the clothes." And after seven days, as promised, the man came out with a beautiful box. The whole capital had gathered and people from faraway places had come. The capital had never seen such crowds. God's clothes? Who would not like to see them? The court of the king was full. For the first time everybody was present; the queen was present, the princesses were present. The man said to the court and to the king, "I have brought the clothes. And for these clothes, the two, three million rupees that you have given are nothing. When you see the clothes you will see they are a thousandfold more costly. In fact you cannot appraise their cost on the earth; they are something that belongs to heaven. They are not found on the earth." The king was in a hurry. He said, "Open your box!" The man said, "The way it must be done has been explained to me. You give me your cap. First I will put your cap into the box, then I will take out the cap of God and put it on your head. Just one condition has to be remembered by all: the cap will be seen only by those who are really born of their own fathers. Those who are not born of their own fathers will not be able to see it." The king said, "There is no problem. In this court everybody is born of his own father. You don't be worried, just open the box." He gave him his cap. The man threw it into the box and took out his hand, empty. Nobody could see anything; neither could the king see anything. But now they were all caught in a difficulty: if they say the truth, then they lose respectability. The king thought it is wiser to accept the cap and say, "How beautiful it is!" So he accepted the nonexistent cap and said, "How beautiful it is!" Everybody in the court was praising the cap, saying that they had never seen such a thing. And because everybody was saying, "It is unique," everybody was also thinking, "Perhaps I am the only one.... Now there is no point in saying the truth -- that I don't see it at all! That will disgrace me; it will disgrace my father, it will disgrace my mother. It will not be possible to live, it will be such a disgrace. So it is better to keep silent. When so many people see it, it must be real." And one by one the clothes disappeared, and the king finally came to the underwear. The man said, "Give me your underwear," and the king thought, "This is really too much! From the cap till now it was okay, but now to give my underwear... And I know perfectly well that this is a con man. But he is really cunning: I cannot even say, `I don't see the underwear.' " Now it was too late; up to now -- the coat, the shirt -- he has praised. He was caught in his own lies. Everybody saw that the king was going to be naked. And he had to be naked -- reluctantly, but there was no other way -- otherwise he would disgrace this whole royal family, that he is not born... because the whole court sees the clothes! So he had to accept the nonexistent underwear. And that man was something! He said, "Millions of people have gathered in the capital. I have been told by God himself, `When my clothes go there and the king wears them, he should go through the capital in his chariot so everybody sees the clothes.' " And the people of the court were all enthusiastic: it is a great thing to show to the public what our emperor has got -- a gift from God! And everybody can see that the emperor is naked! This man is a perfect con. He has befooled the whole court, he has befooled the king, and now he will befool the whole capital, millions of people. In front of the chariot of the king a man was shouting loudly, "The clothes can be seen only by those who are born of their own fathers; otherwise you cannot see them. They are not something human, they are divine." The naked king on a golden chariot and millions clapping and shouting with joy, "What beautiful clothes!" And everybody was thinking, "My God, the king is completely naked -- but millions of people see the clothes, so to go against these millions and say that the king is naked is absolutely absurd, it is just to be condemned. Maybe people will kill you, stone you to death: `You are such a disgrace!' " Just a small child who had come with his father, and was sitting on his shoulders, whispered in his father's ear, "Dad, the king is completely naked!" The father said, "Shut up! When you grow up you will also see that he is not naked. You can't see -- nobody else sees -- that he is naked." He said, "But my growing up -- what has it to do with his being naked? He is naked!" The man said, "You keep quiet or I will take you home and never bring you to anything." The boy said, "I can keep quiet, but I cannot see the clothes." The man had to escape because others may hear that the boy does not see the clothes and that will mean that he is not his boy, his son, that his wife is deceiving him, having some affair with somebody else. The boy asked again and again, "Why are you taking me away?" The father said, "For these things one needs to grow up first. You are too small; you don't understand." "But," the boy asked, "what is the question of understanding? With my eyes I can see everything, and you have never suspected that I am seeing wrong. The king is naked!" And the father said, "He is not naked, the clothes are divine. It needs some maturity to see it." Truth has its own world. It consists of a very few courageous people who can stand against the masses. It is difficult. It is risking your comfort, it is risking your life, it is risking your respectability, it is risking everything. And that will become a dangerous life -- immediately the whole world is against you. This is the world, where nobody wants to stand for the truth. Lies are comfortable. You are fed with lies, those lies are flowing in your blood; you have been prepared for them. For truth you have not been prepared.The Tao urges us not to limit ourselves. Don't put ourselves into ruts. Explore extremes. Go all the way out on the edge. Embrace contraries. Grow. Grow until we die.

In hell there are all the colorful people. In heaven there are only sad, long faces, saints, dry bones, no juice, nothing. In paradise there is not even a single newspaper, no movie, no film actors, no poets, no painters. All the geniuses are in hell..
All the monasteries are full of homosexuals. All the nunneries are full of lesbians. That's why AIDS is a religious disease. It is the greatest contribution of all your religions to humanity.
It is death and nothing else. It is not a disease, because it has no cure. There is only one thing that has no cure, and that is death.
Be responsible, so that there is no need for anybody to dictate to you.
.You can change your job if you feel like changing, you can do something else.
The whole world is full of guns, nuclear weapons, atomic bombs. It is perfectly right to have your own defense system.
Even big countries like America cannot drown their nuclear weapons in the ocean, for the simple reason that if they stop creating more nuclear weapons and China invades, they will be helpless. The same is the situation in Russia. They cannot stop.
But one thing is certain, and tremendously good, good news: America and Russia are so full of nuclear weapons that a third world war is impossible. Both the countries have enough nuclear energy to destroy humanity seven hundred times, and there is no Jesus Christ around to make the dead alive seven hundred times.
Jesus had promised to come, but one time was enough. The way you treated him, that ugly cross, and he was thirsty and he was asking for water.... A man of miracles could not manage a small cloud to shower on him. He was asking for water; he died thirsty. That experience was enough. He had promised his disciples he would be coming soon, but to stretch "soon" for two thousand years is too much.
Both the countries are aware that now a third world war is not going to happen, for the simple reason that both have so much power that they will destroy the whole planet, all living things on the planet. So what is the point? War has meaning if you can be victorious, if you can defeat somebody. But there will be no victory, no one victorious, no one defeated, simply all dead.
So it is good that nuclear weapons have come to a point where world war is impossible. It is not impossible because of the politicians; it is impossible because of the nuclear weapons.

The people who have given the ideas about love have given very wrong notions. One notion that they have given is that if you love a person then you have to love the person forever -- if it is real love. That is their criterion. If some day after ten years you find your paths separating, then the criterion that you have been carrying in the mind says, "All these ten years you were in a false love and you thought it was real."
The reality of love has nothing to do with its longevity. Is the flower not real just because by the evening it fades? Is only the rock real because it will remain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after that, because the day you were born it was there, and the day you die it will be there? Is only that rock real; and the flowers, thousands of flowers that came and disappeared, came and disappeared, were they unreal? Do you make length of time the criterion of reality? I don't see any relationship between the two. But because of this idea many people go on hanging around each others' necks because their love has to be real. They are killing each other to make the love real. If they separate that means their love was not real.
That does not mean that they have to separate to make the love real -- don't move to the opposite extreme, that you have to separate. It will depend on each individual case separately. It is possible that two persons may love their whole life without ever looking anywhere else. It is possible that one may love one person for the time being and then suddenly find that energy is no longer there.
It had come from the unknown.
It has gone to the unknown.
It was not within your power to love somebody; it is not in your power to prevent love from disappearing. You cannot do anything about it, you are simply helpless; so is the other person. Don't blame anybody. Because of the wrong idea of love, lovers go on blaming each other: "You are destroying it." Nobody is destroying it. It is a free breeze; it comes, goes -- you cannot hold it. And if you close all the windows and all the doors to hold the breeze, it is no longer the same cool breeze. Soon it will be stale as all marriages are -- stale, dull.
Both the partners are trying to escape through some place -- some window, some door -- but the other is keeping watch. The other is also trying to escape from some door but the other is keeping watch. Soon husbands and wives become each others' jailers. Love has to be for the whole of life, then only is it real -- this is stupidity. And because of this idea in the name of love, marriage had to be invented. It is a more stable thing, permanent, legal, social -- just like the rock. It is no longer a flower.