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Writing from a "tech bat cave in Boulder, Colorado, where all the quantum fruit loops are above average", Charles Corfield draws our attention to an advertorial in the local Daily Camera. "Greska's Carbon 60: Goodbye Free Radicals, Hello Healthy Body" is the title of the puff for a product that it introduces by saying "some people call it 'electrons in a bottle'". Feedback can think of many things fitting that bill - in fact most things except ionic hydrogen or a total vacuum. The unique human-longevity-promoting antioxidant properties of the carbon-60 "buckyballs" that it promotes are news to us, though. Following the relatively short scientific paper trail, we suspect they are mostly news to science too.