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When God closes and locks a door, I reach for the lockpick set I purchased on Amazon dot com.

Syllogistically, of course, time waits for an island

Nature

Radiative cooling and indoor light management enabled by a transparent and self-cleaning polymer-based metamaterial - Nature Communications

Transparent roofs offer a solution for harnessing natural light in sustainable buildings. Here, authors demonstrate a polymer-based metamate

New material lets through 95% of visible light (compared to 91% for ordinary glass), but still blocks infrared (so has a strong cooling effect) and is opaque:

It's also superhydrophobic so is essentially self-cleaning.

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane

One must imagine that things could, in fact, be good. Are you willing to put forth the energy to construct heaven?

God giving humans both a conscious and unconscious mind, hiding your true nature from yourself as a running gag.

Today I learned that in pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic cultures like the Aztec, women and children were frequently sacrificed. Parents often authorized the sacrifice of their own children. Some even ate their own children.

One drawback is that, despite having other work-related things to do, I am essentially drowning in the vast amount of material that is continuously recommended to me—books and information that are both good and very difficult to put down.

Both my biologist and math friends are constantly giving me new ways of looking at the world. I have a rich inner life because of this.

Fun game: Try to catch yourself thinking irrationally before any erroneous thought has a chance to lead you astray.