A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision

In 2011, Corning Incorporated shared its vision for the near future in “A Day Made of Glass.” The video captured the imagination of millions with a glimpse into how glass, partnered with companion technologies, will help shape our everyday lives.

Today the story about a more connected world continues with “A Day Made of Glass 2.” This video is still a day made of glass, but it expands Corning’s glass innovations into a few different places and applications.

Set on the same day, “A Day Made of Glass 2” follows the same futuristic family as they journey through their day, but instead focuses on the father and two daughters. As the characters work, learn, and play, the applications for specialty glass extend into the classroom, hospital, and home of the near future.

Glass is the essential material enabling this new world. The displays and touch surfaces of the future will require materials that are tough, yet thin and lightweight; that can enable complex electronic circuits and nano functionality; that can scale for very large applications, and that also have a cool, touch-friendly aesthetic. 

The real-time information also depends on communications networks with massive bandwidth capacity – meaning new opportunities for Corning to apply its optical communications expertise to customers’ tough challenges.

Corning’s advancements in sleek, flexible, touch-sensitive, and damage-resistant glass materials are the solution for not just the near future, but today. The company is engaged in research and partnership opportunities that will help make the vision in both videos a reality.

As Corning continues to develop materials and glass components that will help enable a more connected world, we realize that our vision might also bring up a few questions.

To help answer those, a video titled, “A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked” was created. In this special version of the video, a host revisits each scene from “A Day Made of Glass 2” and further explains what Corning believes is possible today and what is still being developed.

Why world didn't end yesterday?

Nasa Explain 

Of course the world didn’t end yesterday. Those who thought it would didn’t understand what the ancient Mayan calendar was all about. Nasa scientists explain in this four-minute video. (Includes transcript)

This video was prepared by Nasa scientists to explain why we are still here on December 22, the day after some people believed the world was going to end. Now, that “doomsday” has passed and we are still here, it makes very good viewing.

You can see the text as you watch the video (click on the “cc” symbol if the text doesn’t appear) but to make it even easier for you I have included the whole transcript and have explained words that you might not know. Thus, this becomes a very good English lesson as well as a science lesson.

Meteorite particles in Polonnaruwa?

Particles which are believed to have originated from a meteorite have been found in the Kudawewa village in Dimbulagala, Polonnaruwa.

The News 1st correspondent in the area said these particles were found in a paddy field.

Residents claimed that such particles have been a common finding in the recent past. 

Prolonged cosmic radiation exposure 'could contribute to Alzheimer's'

A new study has found that prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation could increase the risk of developing neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

The findings raise questions about the dangers associated with future manned missions to Mars.

According to Dr. M. Kerry O‘Banion and his research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center, astronauts of the future, those taking long journeys to Mars or the Asteroid Belt, may have have even more to worry about.

''In addition to the known risks that are already out in space including potential risks of cancer or other kinds of problems such as cataracts that have already been reported in radiation experiments like ours, there is also the potential that you could exacerbate neuro-degenerative disease," stated Dr. M. Kerry O‘Banion

The researchers exposed lab mice to high levels of cosmic radiation, the amount an astronaut would be exposed to over the three years it would take to get to Mars, and then measured their cognitive ability.

The mice failed cognitive tasks more regularly and began showing signs of Alzheimer's disease.

But a trip to Mars doesn‘t mean an inevitable case of Alzheimer's. O‘Banion says researchers plan to look at how to mitigate the impact of radioactive particles.

Currently, NASA has plans for a manned mission to an asteroid in 2021 and a trip toMars scheduled for 2035.