“Just by exploiting the properties of a crystal, we have [insert really cool thing that we can now do thanks to MATH].
The first part is a quote from Veristasium, a scientist video blogger…
and the second part is from ME who watched his video on How a Transistor works with enthusiasm given the fact that I didn’t know how a transistor worked. Part of how a transistor works is through the science of semiconductors and his explanation of this is, I think, the best part of the video, including the aforementioned exploitation of the tetrahedral crystalline structure of silicon. A tetrahedron. One of my all time favorite polyhedra. Not only because you can make one from a standard mailing envelope.
Here’s the video!
Tor.com, in one of this week’s posts, showcases the work of Martin Klimas who breaks things and shows the beauty in the patterns that follow. Here is the picture they posted and one more from the gallery. If you click them, you will go right to more information and more from their post!
Common Sense Media has released a white paper outlining some of the ways that teens can combat gender stereotypes in social media. Here is the link to their article as well as the the paper itself. Yes. Just that. Yes.
*
Now, something beautiful: Nudibranch. Beautiful in and of themselves, of course, but also these photographs courtesy of Explore and my favorite, Joe Hanson of It’s Okay to be Smart. You HAVE to see ALL The pictures. The one I show here is just to lure you in. Click HERE to see them ALL!
And, finally, a post from Brain Pickings about the art of the humorous amazon review. You kind of have to read it to believe it. Here.
That said, I have to say that this is the kind of thing that always gives me hope. For all the insipid reality tv shows that make something really boring out of something really interesting there are just as many people doing really interesting things with some of the relatively straightforward but basic components of this modern world we live in.
LaForge
More than just Math Sightings 