my job is amazing because of all the beauty I get to see for free every day. you'll just be in the middle of a task and thenโby accidentโa moment of scientific beauty...
hosting @ArtirKel for a talk this Sunday about the beauty of biology!
as someone who fell out of love with biology once I found physics (O wonderful world), it broke my brain to understand someone who did the reverse. In his words, "you'll love biology if you love playing God"
In Pasadena / LA for a week! hosting a dinner on Sunday with friends and scientists, would love to meet new humans
DM me if you're interested in coming (bonus points if you attach a reference to an idea you find beautiful)
the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry
If I were a GHz acoustic wave, my whole world would be rigid; nothing bends to the touch; water and jelly are brittle. If nothing changed except the timescale of the force, everything starts to soften, like watching stone start to breathe
Anyone I know want to do a speckle imaging experiment this weekend? Ideally you'd have some optics experience. I have a specific experiment in mind, but also we can resolve some beautiful structures in the process
My little brotherโs math homework is so interesting (and funny)
You can tell that at the age of 10, most of the raw reasoning power is in place โ way outpacing his ability to control a pencil
Just fixed Curius tonight and it should be available on the Chrome store again soon โ sorry to everyone who's been waiting! alas, we've been preoccupied with bci