Jefferson quote

In yesterday's I newspaper:

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.


from Thomas Jefferson


makes sense to me ...

It is worth noting the phrase

neutrinos faster than light

in the recent Cern experiments, but the gutter press, and some (*)supposedly quality newspapers are reporting that

neutrons

have travelled faster than light through several hundred kilometres of rock to a lab in Italy!

For the record, neutrons are unlikely to travel through much of anything 'solid' without interacting with protons and having an identity crisis.


(*)Guilty parties include The Independent, CNet and The Telegraph ... tut tut :)