a dark, handsome lady, of no little majesty, and rather like a plutonic Madonna

After the successful synthesis of silicene in 2012, which was followed by a surge of studies on elemental, novel two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene, a daunting quest was to obtain germanene, the germanium-based analogue of graphene, already predicted to possibly exist in 2009.

After a fine record of doing chores up North, conscientious Roly and Poly fall out of Santa's sled on Christmas Eve and land kerfluff in snowy wilds.

This discussion leads us to a Dostoevskyian link between suffering and humanity and man’s dependency on divine law to protect the individual from the nihilistic rejection of the supreme value which provides the necessary injunction against anti-social acts and relinquishment of morality.