Some things are just not meant to be.
Life-Altering Invention of the Day: It took two months and a whole team of MIT mechanical engineers and nano-technologists, but at long last, mankind has a solution to the ketchup bottle battle.
LiquiGlide, a “super slippery” coating, is made up of nontoxic materials that allow the condiment to pour out smoothly, the way it was intended. The lubricant can be applied to all sorts of food packaging, but ketchup had better be likely will be priority number one.
One of the biggest challenges the team faced was making sure the coating was safe to consume, which meant ingredients had to be FDA-approved. “We had a limited amount of materials to pick from,” said team member Dave Smith, an MIT Ph.D. candidate. “I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it.”
[coexist]
aren’t they all squeeze bottles now anyway?
Kickass Kid of the Day: A Maryland-based scientist has developed an incredibly accurate mechanism for detecting pancreatic cancer, which is faster than current methods, as well as 100 times more sensitive and 28 times cheaper. Oh, and the scientist is 15 years old.
For his discovery, high school freshman Jack Andraka just won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which comes with a $75,000 prize.
Andraka’s method uses single-walled carbon nanotubes — which he calls “the superheroes of material science” — to detect a pancreatic cancer marker in urine and blood samples. In a blind test, it had a 100% success rate.
“I did not expect for it to be this good,” he said, “I was blown away by how sensitive it was.”
[huffpo.]
I was trying to learn algebra one at that age. Just saying.
I refuse to rewrite everything I wrote from my previous entry that got deleted again.
TODO LIST:
- Travel to: Korea, Japan, NYC
- Learn how to play my guitar.
- Get back to school by Summer 13’ at the latest
- Save up at least 15,000 before school
- Buy a car
- Finish reading my books
- To be continued.
I wrote a long blog entry and it got erased. I think this is partially why I don’t blog any long relevant entries anymore. WOW.. Pissed.
Don’t explain. People only hear what they want to hear.
— Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
(via quote-book)
Sometimes, I just want to start over. But then I wonder if it’d be any different.
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.
