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y'all...

Just spoke to the woman who birthed me,

if this: "I respect Walmart greeters, I just don't aspire to be one". is prefacing, would this: "I don't aspire to be a Walmart greeter, but I respect them". then be postfacing ?

phys.org

Scientists discover that water molecules define the materials around us

For decades, the fields of physics and chemistry have maintained that the atoms and molecules that make up the natural world define the char

OKAY THIS ARTICLE IS SO COOL

I'm going to try to explain this in a comprehensible way, because honestly it's wild to wrap your head around even for me, who has a degree in chemistry. But bear with me.

Okay, so. Solids, right? They are rigid enough to hold their shape, but aside from that they are quite variable. Some solids are hard, others are soft, some are brittle or rubbery or malleable. So what determines these qualities? And what creates the rigid structure that makes a solid a solid? Most people would tell you that it depends on the atoms that make up the solid, and the bonds between those atoms. Rubber is flexible because of the polymers it's made of, steel is strong because of the metallic bonds between its atoms. And this applies to all solids. Or so everybody thought.

A paper published in the journal Nature has discovered that biological materials such as wood, fungi, cotton, hair, and anything else that can respond to the humidity in the environment may be composed of a new class of matter dubbed "hydration solids". That's because the rigidity and solidness of the materials doesn't actually come from the atoms and bonds, but from the water molecules hanging out in between.

So basically, try to imagine a hydration solid as a bunch of balloons taped together to form a giant cube, with the actual balloon part representing the atoms and bonds of the material, and the air filling the balloons as the water in the pores of the solid. What makes this "solid" cube shaped? It's not because of the rubber at all, but the air inside. If you took out all the air from inside the balloons, the structure wouldn't be able to hold its shape.

Ozger Sahin, one of the paper's authors, said

"When we take a walk in the woods, we think of the trees and plants around us as typical solids. This research shows that we should really think of those trees and plants as towers of water holding sugars and proteins in place. It's really water's world."

And the great thing about this discovery (and one of the reasons to support its validity) is that thinking about hydration solids this way makes the math so so so much easier. Before this, if you wanted to calculate how water interacts with organic matter, you would need advanced computer simulations. Now, there are simple equations that you can do in your head. Being able to calculate a material's properties using basic physics principles is a really big deal, because so far we have only been able to do that with gasses (PV=nRT anyone?). Expanding that to a group that encompasses 50-90% of the biological world around us is huge.

this image randomly appeared in my head out of nowhere and i had to make it real

this has reduced me to tears

@strange-aeons

this is just the beginning.....

frankieromustdie: 🗣️👂

[Mar 7, 2024]

recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

[october 15, 2024]

Every hand that rises against Internet Archive shall fall

They call me bush on account of my w George

they call me George on account of my W Bush

a website preview just for fun because the home page got updated! (earlycuntsets.org)

thanks Mikey rom’s

IT’S A GOOD WEEK FOR ANNOYING PEOPLE !!!

everybody say thank you mikey way

michael romance. ray toro sighting. two gerard sightings in a week. she has gray hairs. michael is doing things. frank is posting. rehearsal. we are so fucking back

My favorite pirate joke is “why does it take pirates so long to learn the alphabet? Because they spend years at c” not because it’s THAT funny but because it’s a relatively simple joke that nobody ive told it to has ever correctly guessed the punchline for because they all think it’s gonna be a joke about arrrr

I love the old timey phrase "you forget yourself". bro that was so impolite like do you even know who you are rn

sometimes i have a hard time wrapping my head around the existence of doms lol... like u wanna to do all of the thinking FOR ME??? u wanna take care of ME??? u wanna make ALL of the decisions??? u just need me to sit pretty and make you feel good???? literally what are you, an angel???????

​bro I’ve been abandoned so much it’s not even a fear at this point it’s just expected

what if we hyperfixated on each other but like as a joke

Sometimes I still feel the bruise

touching grass is not enough i need to be absolutely fucking railed in the nastiest way possible

god didn't give me a dick because i would read poems & get hard and then everyone would be mean to me

the cure to self-sabotage is to anchor yourself to the universal truth that you are worth it. you are worth the effort. you are worth the difficulty, you are worth the time, you are worth the consideration. there is never a point in your life, in time itself, that you are not worth it. return to this truth when you feel yourself slipping. do not let it go.

Video essays that make me go “oh, so you’re like smart smart”

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Something fucking terrible is gonna happen tomorrow and I’m contemplating getting drunk to cope