RafaelFajardo

A theoretical soft condensed matter physicist by training who now heads a thriving 33-person research group spanning three departments at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Glotzer uses computer simulations to study emergence—the phenomenon whereby simple objects give rise to surprising collective behaviors. “When flocks of starlings make these incredible patterns in the sky…

March 20, 2017

dinosaurparty: (via She Persisted, a children’s book by Chelsea Clinton) This looks lovely.

March 18, 2017

Two infants treated with universal immune cells have their cancer vanish

March 18, 2017

iostopan: Today I made a simple double-core endband with just plain white cotton thread. No silk, no gilded thread, nothing fancy. I was so happy with the end result that I started to wonder, why have I been running away from such simple things before.

March 18, 2017

lafilleblanc: Sol LeWitt Outdoor Structure, 1995 (via)

March 18, 2017

“Blacks/Latinos/non-whites don’t value education like whites do. They don’t work as hard as whites do. They spend more than whites do on junk,” says your standard white guy at the end of the bar dissecting the large racial wealth gap in the United States. “They just need to get off their butts and bootstrap it…

March 15, 2017

Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone

Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone Bananas and politics. An excerpt of an article in Wired, which is itself an excerpt from a book, Never Out of Season In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece of a vast empire of banana plantations run…

March 15, 2017

Wickin out with Diego

March 13, 2017

March 9, 2017

mom and younger one go immediately to futbolito

March 5, 2017