Looking to the future: the value of helium

This is exactly the kind of article I like to see. Thinking critically about the future, people's needs, and flows of materials. Makes me want to buy a lot of helium and wait for 50 years. Not sure iif the time horizon is right. Could be 15 to 150 years or more I guess.
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/going_going_gone/

The power and decline of the polymaths

Great article, a little depressing since I identify with the curiosity and breadth of knowledge that these types of intellects develop. I feel that lots of creative thinkers are not, do not want to be, or simply cannot be specialists, and that there is a real value in this versatility and variety. To a large extent it is the breadth, not the depth of knowledge that inspires me.

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath

New Word: Chemechanical

Don't know what it would mean, but with all the interaction and cross pollenization going on in the sciences today, there has got to be some situation where this term would be relevant, perhaps a perfect fit... let me know if you use it.

Chemechanical: in my mind it refers to a situation where a chemical and a mechanical process are working simultaneously. Perhaps this will be relevant as nanotechnology grows (no pun intended), and small machines begin working together in chemical-interaction like processes.