Self-assembling Particles Brighten Future Of LED Lighting

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Hold a buoyant sphere like a ping pong ball underwater and let it go, and you’ll find that the ball pops up out of the water. Intuitively, you would think that letting the ball go from a lower depth would make it pop up higher – after all, it has a greater distance to accelerate over, right? But it turns out that the highest jumps comes from balls that rise the shortest distance. When released at greater depths, the buoyant sphere follows a path that swerves from side to side. This oscillating path is the result of vortices being shed off the ball, first on one side and then the other. (Image and research credit: T. Truscott et al.)

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka (via man-of-prose)

Packing numerous books and papers that he plans to read over winter break, the grad student deludes himself.

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don’t dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves

Fernando Pessoa (via paizleyrayz)

“It is the most passionate relationship of the film. It is almost equivalent to that of Scarlett O’hara and Ashley Wilkes and Scarlett and Rhett Butler. Mammy is Scarlett’s true mother. It is Mammy to whom Scarlett goes to for advice, it is Mammy who sees deeply into Scarlett’s emotions and knows everything that’s going on with her. Whereas Scarlett’s biological mother doesn’t understand the emotional turmoil of her daughter. This is an incredible performance, very inflictive, that unfortunately is never getting discussed these days because of the sensitivity we should properly feel.” -Camille Paglia