DAN VAN DER WEIDE did not tell the New Scientist magazine that the covert spectroscopic camera he is working on in his lab in Middleton could have prevented the recent London bombings. “I don’t want to oversell it,” van der Weide, a professor of electrical engineering at UW-Madison, told me Tuesday.
Nevertheless, the July 16 New Scientist did quote van der Weide saying, “If it had been available it could have detected the London bombers.”