By dangling the threat of renewed conflict, Mr. Putin gives the talks a new purpose to coax him back from the brink.

Though some scholars and thinkers are fit to be leaders of the people, a favorable environment is needed to coax them out of their ivory towers. To this end, an open minded, culturally literate, and ideas oriented head of state could play a pivotal role.

Meanwhile, in China, some 30,000 workers are trying to change the weather, attempting to seed clouds from airplanes or using anti aircraft guns to shoot shells into the air, hoping to coax some rain from the sky. There is no statistical proof that this type of weather manipulation works, but cloud seeders are also busy in the United States, mainly in the west.

Moving onto the next demonstration, we've taken a pane of glass and we've coated the outside of it, we've framed it with the nanotechnology coating, and we're going to pour this green tinted water inside the middle, and you're going to see, it's going to spread out on glass like you'd normally think it would, except when it hits the coating, it stops, and I can't even coax it to leave.