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Somehow, I think two is too small for "random" ({this, that} =/= Random Set) but anyway:
This: Yesterday, heard a promo for today's "Science Friday" on NPR, about gekko-inspired medical adhesives. And something about that just makes me giggle. And last night, in a certain IRC chat room, I told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blinovitch about it.
Anyway, today, I heard the segment. Turns out they didn't invent a glue, but rather, an alternative to glue: a bandage for internal incisions that are textured like a gekko's foot pads. And the guest explained that the texture of a gekko's footpads is so fine, it goes down to the molecular level, and creates atom-to-atom adhesion with the things it walks on.
I'd kind of heard that fact before, but ... damn! How cool can the universe get?
That: And after my chat withblinovitch, I caught most of the second half of Charlie Rose's interview with Samantha Power. She's a professor at Harvard, a journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and just happans to also be Obama's senior advisor on foreign policy. Can I has him as my president, nao? And can he please make this woman his secretary of state (not only is she smart, but I want to hear "Secretary Power" on the news ;-))?
...One reason (I think) that Obama doesn't get into policy details in his speaches (yet) is that, when written out in bullet points, it looks almost identical to Clinton's platform. But it looks to me like the major difference between them is how they arrived at their policies.
(Two people can both agree that the sky is blue, but I'm more likely to vote for the one who talks about the refraction of light through the atmosphere than the one who tries to tell me that the blue sky pixies won the war, years and years ago)
And the more evidence I see of how Obama thinks (as in whom he chooses to advise him on foreign policy, or who his favorite philosopher is), the more I like. He gets charged with being overly simplistic, but I think the truth may be closer to the opposite.
This: Yesterday, heard a promo for today's "Science Friday" on NPR, about gekko-inspired medical adhesives. And something about that just makes me giggle. And last night, in a certain IRC chat room, I told
blinovitch about it. Anyway, today, I heard the segment. Turns out they didn't invent a glue, but rather, an alternative to glue: a bandage for internal incisions that are textured like a gekko's foot pads. And the guest explained that the texture of a gekko's footpads is so fine, it goes down to the molecular level, and creates atom-to-atom adhesion with the things it walks on.
I'd kind of heard that fact before, but ... damn! How cool can the universe get?
That: And after my chat with
blinovitch, I caught most of the second half of Charlie Rose's interview with Samantha Power. She's a professor at Harvard, a journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and just happans to also be Obama's senior advisor on foreign policy. Can I has him as my president, nao? And can he please make this woman his secretary of state (not only is she smart, but I want to hear "Secretary Power" on the news ;-))?...One reason (I think) that Obama doesn't get into policy details in his speaches (yet) is that, when written out in bullet points, it looks almost identical to Clinton's platform. But it looks to me like the major difference between them is how they arrived at their policies.
(Two people can both agree that the sky is blue, but I'm more likely to vote for the one who talks about the refraction of light through the atmosphere than the one who tries to tell me that the blue sky pixies won the war, years and years ago)
And the more evidence I see of how Obama thinks (as in whom he chooses to advise him on foreign policy, or who his favorite philosopher is), the more I like. He gets charged with being overly simplistic, but I think the truth may be closer to the opposite.
