yesterday all of my tribbles seemed so far away
you didn’t
now it looks as if they’re here to stay
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This is where you put the Internet.
This is how we’re doing Schrödinger’s equation now.
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your nanogarden grow?
Harvard engineer Wim Noorduin has a green thumb. Only his thumb is only a few microns wide. By carefully controlling gradients of chemicals, he guided the construction of flower-like crystal structures to match their larger biological forms. It’s certainly art, but it also demonstrates a masterful manipulation of chemistry on the nano scale.
Just how small are they? As NPR reports, these flowers could fit in the lapel of the tiny Abraham Lincoln statue on the back of a penny (back when pennies had the Lincoln Memorial on them, anyway). These electron microscope images are false colored to recreate fantastic flowers, and these manipulations will one day help control the construction of useful microstructures.
If you’re seriously engineering-inclined, here’s the original research as it appears in Science.
Photographs taken inside musical instruments making them look like large and spacious rooms.
The little-known art of beloved physicist Richard Feynman, born on May 11, 1918.
I love this man so much. If I can be like 1% as interesting and awesome as he was in teaching science to the world and embracing the beauty of creativity, then my life will be a success.
