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Sometimes I cook things even though I have significant doubts that they will be in any way delicious. Why is this, how is this so, you ask? Because I live in a mental place I affectionately call Hope. I wish to be surprised. I aspire to be wrong from time to time (though not, as Alex can but probably will not argue, because he is polite, too often, and certainly not if it would make him right) because if the sum of the parts that together comprise the world as I know it is all there is, I'd be kind of bummed. I'd be kind of bored.
Often enough, things exceed my expectations. There are better-than-Campbell's Cream of Tomato Soups, there is Fennel Ice Cream and Red Velvet Cake and, loudest as of late, there is brining.
And then there are the other times that my hunches are actually-spot on, such as a recent one that whole segments of citrus fruit should not be baked. They they can be juiced, they can be zested and, most gloriously, they can be pureed whole into tarts and sorbets, but baked, just plain old baked, their segment skins become dry and papery and their lovely fruit within gets a bitter tang and you, if you are like me, will likely wish you had just eaten them when they were at their most tempting.
I'm not too bummed, however, as I may or may not, have picked most of the segments off my slice and just eaten the delicious baked custard underneath. Furthermore, this means that I am due for a recipe that proves my skepticism wrong, and, oh, I really hope it is these Italian pretzels.
One year ago: Deb Three-Bean Chili, Corn Bread with Cheddar, Jalapeno and Green Onions, Pasta with Sausage, Tomatoes and Mushrooms [Hibernation Fare]
Anything-But-Clementine Clafoutis
Adapted from The New York Times 1/9/08
As noted above, I did not care one bit for the baked clementine suggested in the original recipe, but this doesn't make clafoutis any less of a delicious dessert. Here are some fruits I would consider using instead: cherries, blue-, heck, any berries, grapes, thin slices of apples or pear and if you are really itching for summer, perhaps you can find some not-too-sordid plums or peaches.
Serves at least six
Butter as needed
1/2 cup flour, more for dusting pan
3 eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Pinch salt
3/4 cup heavy cream (I used milk)
3/4 cup milk
Dash of flavoring, such as almond or vanilla extract, a liqueur or brandy (optional)
About 3 cups of fruit (sliced pears or apples or any of the others listed above)
Powdered sugar
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a gratin dish, about 9 by 5 by 2 inches, or a 10-inch round deep pie plate or porcelain dish, by smearing it with butter, just a teaspoon or so. Dust it with flour, rotating pan so flour sticks to all the butter; invert dish to get rid of excess.
2. In a large bowl, whisk eggs until frothy. Add 1/2 cup flour, and whisk until smooth. Add granulated sugar and salt and whisk until combined. Add cream and milk and whisk until smooth.
3. Layer fruit over bottom of the dish. Pour batter over fruit to as close to top of dish as you dare; you may have a little leftover batter, depending on size of your dish. Bake for about 40 minutes, or until clafoutis is nicely browned on top and a knife inserted into it comes out clean. Sift some powdered sugar over it and serve warm or at room temperature. Clafoutis does not keep (not sure I agree with this); serve within a couple of hours of making it.


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Jupiter's jet speeds in 2016.
When Voyager passed by Uranus in 1986, none of this was going on. Of course, the "blue" image above is false color, applied to infrared images of Uranus from the Keck Observatory. These storms are a lot more dramatic in the infrared. But still, seven years after equinox in Uranus' 84-year annual cycle, storm activity seems to be picking up.
The storms themselves, at least visually, look similar to storms on Jupiter and Saturn, as seen in the infrared. These storms are rare on any of the giant planets, but there are a lot of questions about them. How much of the planets' internal heat do these superstorms carry? How often do they happen? Are they part of long term cycles?
This is what I love about studying the solar system. It never gets old. Things change and evolve over time.
Microblogging is really big at LPSC. I'm not a microblogger, or any kind of blogger really. I worry that as technology advances, and attention spans shrink, I am developing a mental disability. Short attention spans used to be characteristic of an attention deficit disorder. But now short attention spans are normal, and those who prefer to devote attention to things for longer amounts of time are the anomalous ones. So I think I have Attention Excess Disorder. Pharmaceutical companies, please develop some medicine for me so I can microblog.
I had lunch today with Max Mutchler from STScI (a collaborator on Planet Pipeline and Planet Investigators), and I was amazed to find out that he's a kidney donor just like me! I'm not shocked to meet a kidney donor. But to collaborate with one for more than three years, only to find this out halfway through lunch, was quite a shock. We talked about how we were affected by the situations that made our operations necessary, rather than the operations themselves.
I forgot to ask Max whether he was ever told, as I was recently by a friend, "You? You're the LAST person I would expect to be a kidney donor!"
On my quest for free stuff in the exhibitors section, I came across edible rocks courtesy of the CPSX booth (which they bought from a store nearby). Pictured are a black one and a yellow one. They look exactly like rocks, but they're chocolate! I'm looking around for Laurie Leshin, because she said during her talk that Curiosity finds 150-μm grains to be the "yummiest" dirt; but now, the rover is not the only one who eats rocks!
I hate change! That's why I still use pine. My nephew saw my screen last night and was like "Wow, look at all those lines of code!" It was just pine. Nobody even knows what it is. But for the few that still use it, and who want to be able to use it with Berkeley's new bMail service, here's how to set it up.
SMTP Server (for sending) = email@example.com
Inbox Path = {firstname.lastname@example.com}inbox
touch ~/pine.pwd. The file name can be anything, but this is the name they used on the page that showed me how to do this. The file wil contain your google key, but encrypted.
cat alias 'pinemail pine -passfile ~/pine.pwd' > .cshrc. For other shells, you would probably need to change the syntax for the alias command, and/or store the command in another file (like profile.bash instead of .cshrc or something).
Thanks Google! That was much easier than trying to get pine to work with Microsoft Exchange.
I had a great time this week, speaking to 311 students at South Pointe Middle School in Diamond Bar on Tuesday (thanks, Kellie Muragishi!), and 36 students in the Robotics Magnet Class at Audubon Middle School in Crenshaw yesterday (thanks, Eric Yu!).
JPL's Mars office set me up with a rover model and a full size model rover wheel, and Scott gave me some NASA "meatball" stickers to hand out. These were great bribes to encourage the students to ask questions at the end. Some highlights:
What an exciting night. Or day. Or sol?
I slept in yesterday, missing some key emails, and showed up to work "early" for my shift doing MSL operations work (at 8pm). That's when I found out there was another Jupiter fireball. This one was discovered by Dan Petersen in Wisconsin by visual observation, and confirmed when George Hall went back and found the flash in his archived video.
Being simultaneously pulled to work on Mars and Jupiter made me almost believe in astrology. I definitely felt that the planets were controlling my life.
About the image: My lightcurve has a large uncertainty, but is sufficient to predict that this event is too small to create a visible impact scar. George Hall was kind enough to share his video data for this analysis. The inset image consists of 22 frames of George's data, stacked by Ricardo Hueso and treated with a mild high-pass filter. Light curve data points are based on radial brightness curves, extrapolated to compensated for saturated pixels in the original data.
More detailed reports include:
I just found out about this awesome video by Sander van den Berg, using Voyager and Cassini imaging data. If you're like me, you've seen some of the videos in this compilation, but this is a really breathtaking new way to absorb them. A lot of physics, some understood and some not, is captured in this 1:52 piece.
I just went to browse MAST, formerly the Multimission Archive at STScI, and found out that it's been renamed. It's still MAST, but now it stands for the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
Senator Barbara Mikulski was honored for becoming the longest-serving woman in U.S. Congressional history, and also for being a great defender of space exploration and research. There are nice writeups about MAST and Sen. Mikulski on the about MAST page and a Hubble press release. Although some NASA advocates focus their support on the manned space program with its associated defense contractor expenditures, Senator Mikulski's record shows support for the kind of stuff I do: science. I'm proud that they renamed the archive after her.
My career is not not going quite the way I thought it would, back when I was 18. Shouldn't I have a faculty job by now? Or a civil servant position at NASA?
These days, many people adopt different paths. We branch out, or we work at scientist farms, where top-quality researchers can sustain themselves on grants. So I'm starting a new (part-time) Visiting Scientist gig at University of Michigan, following on an awesome Visiting Scientist stint at Space Telescope in 2009-2010. At Michigan I'll be working with the SAM instrument on the Curiosity rover.
Although a part-time visiting scientist arrangement is odd, and inconvenient... I don't think it's extremely unusual these days. I'm a Space Ronin; I have no tenure and I work here and there. I'm well regarded internationally in my field, but just without the job to match. I console myself in the quote usually found on the whiteboard behind the bar at Tommy's: "IF YOU LIVE IN S.F. PLEASE REMEMBER HOW LUCKY YOU ARE."

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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Seesmic Acquires Popular Twitter AIR Client Twhirl — San Francisco video/chat startup Seesmic has acquired Twhirl, a popular application created by German developer Marco Kaiser that allows users to access the Twitter service directly from their desktop, and also cross post to other services like Pownce and Jaiku.
Discussion: VentureBeat, Loic Le Meur Blog, paidContent.org, ReadWriteWeb, bub.blicio.us and The Last Podcast
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl
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Video chat startup Seesmic acquires Twitter client Twhirl — Seesmic (review), which is working towards the public release of its video nanoblogging and chat service, has acquired Twhirl, an AIR-based Twitter client. Twhirl is the most popular third-party client according to ReadWriteWeb …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Apple Investigating Backdating of iTunes Press Releases
Dan Moren / MacUser: Apple beats up on Wal-Mart
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple confirms leaked data: iTunes tops the charts
Apple confirms leaked data: iTunes tops the charts
Discussion: paidContent.org and PC World
New York Times:
MySpace and Record Companies Create Music Site — SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest effort by the ailing music industry to bolster its declining prospects, three of the four major music companies have struck a deal with MySpace to start an music Web site. — As part of the deal …
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post: MySpace, Major Labels Join Forces for Online Music Store
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: MySpace and record companies plan one-stop music site
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Major Record Labels Form Joint Venture With MySpace
Brad Linder / Download Squad: MySpace and 3 major labels to launch MySpace Music
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: MySpace Music On The Way — Settles with Universal
Blake Robinson / FaceReviews: MySpace partners with Sony/BMG, Universal and Warner to form MySpace Music
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
MySpace Music: Here comes the latest iTunes killer
MySpace Music: Here comes the latest iTunes killer
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman: Apple Becomes Top U.S. Music Retailer
Google Public Policy Blog:
Cone of silence (finally) lifts on the spectrum auction — For three weeks at the end of January and early February, a small team of us holed up in double super secret "war rooms" in Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. to bid on Google's behalf in the FCC spectrum auction.
Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET News.com, Gearlog, InformationWeek Weblog and Phone Scoop
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Google sounds off on spectrum auction results
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com: Google: Spectrum bid goal was openness, not winning
Chloe Albanesius / Gearlog: Google: 700 MHz Bids Were Serious. Honest.
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop: Google Bid in Auction Strictly to Trigger Open Access
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone — Microsoft made it official on April 3: There will be no new reprieves for Windows XP (other than on Ultra Low-Cost PCs). — Some customers and partners had been hoping the company might extend again the deadline for all PC makers …
Discussion: IDG News Service, Microsoft, Techlog, InformationWeek, GottaBeMobile, Tech Tracks, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, BetaNews, Engadget and Electronista
Elizabeth Montalbano / IDG News Service: Microsoft Extends XP Through 2010 for Ultra-Low-Cost Laptops
Harry McCracken / Techlog: Windows XP Gets a Reprieve—Kinda Sorta
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek: Microsoft Gives Windows XP A Limited Reprieve
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile: Windows XP June 30 Cut-Off Final, The ULCPC
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: A tea leaf about Windows 7 in Windows XP announcement: It's still on track
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Windows XP to live until 2010... on the Eee
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft will extend life of Windows XP—again
Microsoft will extend life of Windows XP—again
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way: Windows Driver Foundation 1.7 slated for April 15
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Microsoft will support Windows XP until 2010 — on low power laptops only
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: Missing a Trend? — This story about XP being extended …
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Rumor: Ad network Federated Media raises $50M from Oak Hill Capital Partners, at $200M valuation — The ad network Federated Media has raised $50 million at a $200 million pre-money valuation from private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, I've heard from a source, with investment bank Savvian helping to broker the deal.
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TechCrunch v DEMO Smackdown! Calacanis Blasts IDG, Offers Shipley a Job — Now that TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis have scheduled their TechCrunch50 start-up celebration conference at the same time as IDG's DEMO start-up celebration conference, the allegations are flying:
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You only get to lose your virginity once
You only get to lose your virginity once
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Study: 'Influencers' Possess Less Clout — IN THE WORLD OF SOCIAL media, so-called "influencers" might have less clout than some marketers think. — According to a new study from Canadian research firm Pollara, self-described social media users put far more trust in friends and family online …
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Study: There is No Tipping Point, Blog Readers Are Skeptical
Study: There is No Tipping Point, Blog Readers Are Skeptical
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South Park kills 10 YouTube memes for good — Viacom continues to pursue a $1 billion lawsuit against Google's YouTube for allowing video piracy. On Viacom's Comedy Central, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't helping their corporate parent's legal case.
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Motorola to eliminate 2,600 jobs — Ouch. — Motorola took another hit Thursday in announcing, through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that it will lay off 2,600 employees. As a result, it will take a $104 million pretax charge in the first quarter of the year for severance costs.
Discussion: Electronista and Engadget
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Motorola to cut another 2,600 jobs
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OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID — You've heard a lot about OpenID, the decentralized framework for authenticating users across the web. OpenID is convenient for end users, allowing them to login to numerous web sites using one set of credentials - their OpenID.
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A Camera for the Shot You Missed — When you're a professional gadget reviewer, you see plenty of cellphones, music players, camcorders and computers. But in two weeks, Casio will offer an entirely new device for sale, the first of its kind: a time machine. — Now, the Exilim EX-F1 is not a time machine in the H. G. Wells sense.
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Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Trademark Dispute Pits Apple vs. The Big Apple — The Big Apple has a new logo, and Apple says: Drop dead. — At issue is the emblem for New York City's GreeNYC campaign, which has started to appear around the city on bus shelters, hybrid gasoline-electric taxicabs and even Whole Foods shopping bags.
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Apple vs. NYC: What's really going on
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Terrence O'Brien / Switched: Apple Questions NYC's GreeNYC Program and Logo
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: We look like idiots in this battle with New York over a trademark
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John Markoff / Bits:
A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos — The tension between computing technology that augments human activity and technology that automates it goes all the way back to the 1960s. — It can be seen today in Viewfinder, a demonstration of a photo-sharing or photo-placing system developed …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
The bubble to end all bubbles? — Are we in a bubble? Far too late to be asking that question, says Chris Nolan, a former Valley newspaper gossip who now runs a startup, Spot-On. She weighs in on the current market crisis and its effects on the tech business.
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ProBasketballTalk 2013-14 Preview: The Atlanta Hawks
Last season: It was the end of an era. Josh Smith's final season in Atlanta ended the only way it really could: with plenty of ill-advised shot attempts, tons of highlight-reel plays, and probably most importantly, another early playoff exit. After a first round loss to the Indiana Pacers in six games, it was fair to yet again classify the Hawks as a very good team that just didn't have enough weapons to hang with the league's elite in the postseason.
Signature highlight from last season: Jeff Teague summons Spud Webb. Nastiness ensues.
Key player changes:
IN: Paul Millsap (Jazz), Elton Brand (Mavs), Dennis Schroeder (17th pick), DeMarre Carroll (Jazz), Gustavo Ayon (Bucks), James Johnson (Kings), Jared Cunningham (Mavs), Damien Wilkins (76ers), Pero Antic (Greece).
OUT: Josh Smith (Pistons), Devin Harris (Mavs), Ivan johnson (China), Dahntay Jones (Bulls), Zaza Pachulia (Bucks), Johan Petro (China), Anthony Tolliver (Bobcats), Deshawn Stevenson.
Paul Millsap should be able to replicate Josh Smith's offensive numbers with shots from smarter locations, but replacing Smith's rim protection and defensive abilities will be a much tougher task. To help Millsap out on that end, the Hawks brought in quality defenders like Brand and Carroll to help fill the void. Schroeder, meanwhile, should quickly cement himself as one of the best on-ball defenders in basketball. He's a weapon in the mold of Avery Bradley defensively.
Although Smith was a highly underrated passer, Hawks GM Danny Ferry made sure to bring in big men highly capable of operating from the high post, which should be a great fit if new head coach Mike Budenholzer's offensive system resembles what the Spurs ran while he was in San Antonio.
Keys to Atlanta's season:
1. Can San Antonio's blueprint work in Atlanta?
The Hawks have moved on from a period defined by stagnation to become "Spurs East" with Ferry and Budenholzer at the helm. Financial flexibility has been at the heart of most of the major decisions thus far, but the Hawks have still managed to do a fantastic job molding a team in the Spurs vision on the fly. Jeff Teague's raw speed and ability to score in the paint with floaters is reminiscent of Tony Parker, and Al Horford's bankable production and reliable 18-footer are a little Tim Duncan-esque. You don't have to strain much to see the similarities.
It's no wonder why after 17 seasons under Gregg Popovich, this was the team and situation Budenholzer left the nest for. The Hawks have the shooting with Kyle Korver and John Jenkins to spread the floor for their multi-talented big men, which could make this offense dynamic -- particularly if sixth man Lou Williams comes back healthy off a torn ACL.
2. Can the Hawks defend well enough to take down the beasts of the East?
The East is littered with great defensive teams like Chicago, Indiana, and Miami. Will the Hawks defend well enough to approach that level of play? Ferry loaded up on intelligent players this offseason, but there will certainly be challenges on the defensive end. Can Millsap help protect the rim? Can the wings (Korver, Jenkins, Williams) close out against shooters after finishing 28th in three-point percentage allowed last year?
The Hawks did finish 10th in defensive efficiency last season, but the system this year will have to be greater than the sum of its parts. Depending on size and athleticism to clean up the messes simply won't cut it anymore.
3. Can Jeff Teague make the big leap?
With the ball in his hands more than ever before, Jeff Teague enjoyed the best season of his career with averages of nearly 15 points and 7 assists a game. Is an even bigger breakout year on the horizon?
If you believe in the Parker comparison, the answer is yes. Through four years, Teague has put up nearly an identical PER as Parker did (15.6 to 15.5) along with a better true shooting percentage and a better assist percentage. Parker really blew up in his fifth season, however, earning his first All-Star bid while shooting a ridiculous 54.8 percent from the field.
Asking that of Teague is a little much, but the dynamite young point guard could be in line for a big leap this year. For the Hawks to really contend in the East, they'll need it.
Why you should watch the Hawks: Korver's jumper belongs in a textbook, Millsap and Horford's post passing will be a treat, Teague's crazy athleticism will make for plenty of highlights, and Schroder's minutes will be must see TV. The Spurs play beautiful basketball, and so should the Hawks. If you get only five League Pass teams this year, make the Hawks one of them and thank me later.
Prediction: 49-33. This is an extremely intelligent basketball team that should be able to recognize and account for shortcomings elsewhere. With solid depth, good specialists, and a core that could be in line for big improvements in a new system that should better accentuate specific skills, I'm bullish on the Hawks improving from their 44 wins last season.


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While participating in a panel discussion at Moody Church recently, Dr. Erwin Lutzer asked me a question a Muslim man had asked him. He was trying to highlight the plight of persecuted church in Muslim majority countries. The Muslim had argued Islam was the true religion simply because there were no mosques turning into churches but there are churches turning into mosques. The question was, "Are there any mosques turning into churches?"
In my answer, I noted the only mosque I knew of in Cordova, Spain, which was turned into a church building. Muslims had conquered Cordova and turned a Catholic church into a mosque. It remained a mosque for a few centuries until Spaniards overthrew the city and turned the mosque into what it used to be, a church building.
How this Muslim man would claim Islam is a true religion based on mosques not turning into church buildings is baffling. I wonder if he knows most Muslim majority countries do not even allow repairs on existing church buildings let alone establishment of new ones, which is an avenue for turning mosques into church buildings!
I added, no mosques are turning into church buildings because the playing field is not leveled in Muslim majority countries. There is no religious freedom for non-Muslims. Many Muslims who secretly follow Jesus Christ would come forward and establish a place of worship for themselves if it weren't for threats they face.
We need to tell our Muslim friends a building is not what constitutes a church. A church is a body of believers. A Christian—one who professes Jesus Christ is the Son of God and abides by His Word—is a member of "church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven." This Church even has members who are of Muslim background in a country as restrictive and hostile to Christians as Saudi Arabia. Though without walls, this church is flourishing and if freedom of religion were granted, would convert mosques into church buildings.


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Glass has potential to be stronger, researchers say
(Phys.org)—Glass is strong enough for so much: windshields, buildings and many other things that need to handle high stress without breaking. But scientists who look at the structure of glass strictly by the numbers believe some of the latest methods from the microelectronics and nanotechnology industry could produce glass that's about twice as strong as the best available today.
Rice University chemist Peter Wolynes is one of them. Wolynes and Rice graduate student Apiwat Wisitsorasak determined in a new study that a process called chemical vapor deposition, which is used industrially to make thin films, could yield a glass that withstands tremendous stress without breaking.
Wolynes, a senior scientist with the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, and Wisitsorasak reported their results this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their calculations were based on a modified version of a groundbreaking mathematical model that Wolynes first created to answer a decades-old conundrum about how glass forms. With the modifications, Wolynes' theory can now predict the ultimate strength of any glass, including the common varieties made from silica and more exotic types made of polymers and metals.
If metal glass sounds odd, blame it on the molecules inside. Glass is unique because of its molecular structure. It freezes into a rigid form when cooled. But unlike ice, in which water molecules take on regular crystalline patterns—think of snowflakes—the molecules in glass are suspended randomly, just as they were as a liquid, with no particular pattern. The strong bonds that form between these randomly-arrayed individual molecules are what hold the glass together and ultimately determine its strength.
All glasses share the ability to handle a great deal of strain before giving way, sometimes explosively. Exactly how much strain a glass can handle is determined by how much energy it can absorb before its intrinsic elastic qualities reach their limitations. And that seems to be as much a property of the way the glass is manufactured as the material it's made of.
Materials scientists have long debated the physics of what occurs when glass hardens and cools. In fact, the transition is one of their last great puzzles of the field. Cooling temperatures for particular kinds of glass are well defined by centuries of experience, but Wolynes argues it may be possible to use this information to improve upon glass's ultimate strength.
The elastic properties of the finished product and the configurational energy (the positive and negative forces between the molecules) held in stasis by the "freezing" process determine how close a glass gets to the theoretical ideal—the most stable glass possible, he said.
"The usual impression of glass is that, relative to other materials in your life, it seems easy to break," said Wolynes, Rice's Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science and a professor of chemistry. "The reality is that when it's freshly made and not scratched, glass is very strong."
Wolynes, who specializes in how molecular systems move across microscopic "energy landscapes,"particularly as they relate to protein folding in biology, has an interest in glass that goes back many years. His random first-order transition theory of glasses, which quantifies the molecules' kinetic properties as they cool, helped set the stage for decades of debate among theorists over how glass actually forms.
But the theory, based on work by Wolynes and collaborators that goes back to 1989, did not consider the strength of glass.
"You can come up with a theory of something and ignore one of the most practical implications because you just don't think about it," Wolynes explained.
A chance encounter with a metallurgist last year made Wolynes think again about just how strong glass could be. "We had never worked on that kind of property, and the problem struck me as intriguing – and relatively simple in the framework of the theory we already had. We just hadn't thought to calculate it," he said.
Traditional glass is so ubiquitous that people rarely think about it (until it breaks). "Even though we now have Gorilla Glass and other tempering developments, they've been developed in a somewhat Edisonian fashion," he said, noting that such hardened glasses commonly used in cell phones have a self-healing surface treatment that protects the glass itself from scratching. "Our paper is about what determines the limits on the strength of the glass, if there is no surface problem."
Wolynes noted the strength of materials has been studied since the 1920s, when Russian scientist Yakov Frenkel "calculated how strong something could be if we just take into account the direct forces between atoms. He made a simple calculation: If you have a row of atoms and pull it over another row of atoms, when would it go from one way of aligning to the next?" Wolynes said that determines a material's elastic modulus—"how springy the material is"—an easy concept to understand in metals that bend before they break.
"The elastic modulus is related to the thermal vibrations in the material," he said. "Basically, if you have a material that has a very high melting point, its elastic modulus is also very high. According to Frenkel, the strength should also be very high.
"That overall trend is true. That's why fighter jets are made of titanium, one the highest-melting metals, and low-melting aluminum, which is not as strong but lighter, is used for other things."
The theory didn't seem to relate to glasses, however. "In the early days, when people first measured the properties of glasses, they found they were easily breakable. Silica glass is very high-melting, so you'd expect it to be strong," Wolynes said. "Then they did finally figure out this was because cracks at the surface were propagating in. If they could eliminate the cracks, they would get much higher strengths."
Current metallic glasses like the Liquidmetal famously licensed by Apple for consumer electronics "come to be about a quarter of this theoretical Frenkel strength," Wolynes said. "So what is it that limits their strength? We ask whether the collective motions that go on in liquids as they're becoming glasses are the same motions that are being catalyzed when we stress the material.
"Basically, we applied our theory for what determines how the liquid rearranges as it's becoming glass. Add to that the extra driving force when you apply stress, and see what that predicts for the limit of how much it can be pushed before the atoms roll over each other" and the glass breaks, he said.
He noted the theoretical results closely match experimental ones for most materials. "The good news is, according to this theory, if you could make a material that is much closer to ideal glass – the glass you would get if you could make it infinitely slowly – then you would be able to increase its strength." That may not be possible through traditional cooling of silica, metal and polymer glasses, which Wolynes' and Wisitsorasak's calculations indicate are approaching their limits.
But it might be possible through vapor deposition of atoms, akin to the chemical vapor deposition process used in microelectronics and nanotechnology to make thin films. "It would require tuning the deposition rate to the liquid/glass transition properties," he said.
"Our theory says the best you can do with this is get about halfway to ideal glass," which he said some experimentalists have demonstrated. "It's possible there's some loophole we don't yet see that will let us get even closer to the ideal," Wolynes said. "But at least, at this point, we can get halfway there. That means it would be possible, in principle, to get glass with at least twice the intrinsic strength of current glasses."
Wolynes' theory comes with a caveat, though. Glass hardened even to the point of near indestructibility can still be destroyed, and with dramatic effect. "If you could have something infinitely strong, then you'd never need to worry about it," he said. "But there's a little bit of a problem if you make something that's very strong but can eventually break. It contains a huge amount of energy, so when it breaks, it fails catastrophically."
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The practice of fully feeling our pain allows us to see through it. We are then led to forgiving ourselves and becoming more aware of the different realities residing within conflict
Practice of Forgiveness
In being fully alive – through our pain and difficulty.
By Zoketsu Norman Fischer | June 9, 2001
Abridged and edited by Barbara Byrum
One of my practices, which I would recommend highly, is
watching morning television. It's very
educational. It really is. The other day, an expert came on, who had
figured out a really good method for achieving happiness. You would write in a journal for twenty
minutes a day. Not randomly,
though. There were several areas of
personal concern that you were supposed to write about in a systematic way. The
categories were the physical – including your diet and exercise, emotional,
relationships, and spirituality. You
were supposed to write for five minutes on each of these four areas. What impressed me was that under spirituality,
you were supposed to write about forgiveness.
Every single day you would write in your journal about your efforts to
forgive yourself for what you had done that was harmful, or to forgive somebody
else for what they had done to you that was harmful.
So I thought about this afterward. It seemed really startling to me, the idea
that there would be so much hurting going on in the world. That every day – because there was that much
hurting going on in the world – every person would have to spend time forgiving
themselves and others. I had never
really thought about it quite in that way before. But as soon as I thought about it, I said,
"Of course, that is really right. People
hurting themselves. People hurting each
other with all kinds of abuse and disrespect.
Diminishment of all sorts." The
kind of hurting that you read about in the newspaper – the violence, the anger,
the hatred; but also the more subtle, everyday kind of hurting. Hurting that comes just from failing to love
enough. Failing, little by little, day
by day. No one notices. And yet, it really is a powerful, negative
force in our lives.
I thought the expert had a really good idea. It really made a lot of sense. If you are going to take care of yourself –
take your vitamins and follow a good diet and all that, it would really make
sense to have a daily hygiene of forgiving.
Forgiving seems to be a really necessary practice.
But how do you forgive?
Well, it is not that easy. Why is
it so hard? It's hard because it is
literally painful, and nobody wants to feel pain. It is a natural, human response to run away
from pain. So when pain is there, before
you even have a chance to feel it, you are already fleeing in the other direction,
covering it over with distraction. And
distraction takes various forms: denial, blaming somebody else, or just
oblivion. Somehow wiping it out. Forgetting it somehow. As I often say, we live in a society that is
masterful at all of this. Our society is
literally organized to promote this kind of distraction and oblivion.
Of course, as far as blame is concerned, we don't need any
help for that! We automatically blame
people. So if you have ever hurt
yourself, and I think that we often do, and if you have ever hurt anyone else,
which we often do (knowingly or unknowingly), there is pain. And if somebody has hurt you, then obviously
there is a lot of pain.
If you are going to follow this woman's advice and practice
forgiveness, the first thing you have to do is to allow yourself to feel acutely
the pain of that hurting. This requires work,
since most of the time, I think, that pain in
its fullness does not exist within the frame of our awareness. You need to allow it, to evoke it, to bring
it up, to bring it forth, and to let it blossom into your heart. It is very rare that we are willing to sit
still for that. But we have to, if we
are ever to forgive.
This is one reason why meditation practice is not always
peaceful. If you practice meditation
with a sense of really being present and open and aware to what comes,
sometimes that is what comes. Pain. Difficulty.
But actual meditation practice itself, if you follow it closely and are
honest with yourself, will naturally lead you down the path of
So that is the first part.
To forgive, you really need to allow yourself to feel the fullness of
the pain.
The next thing you have to do is go to the root of the pain,
beyond the story that comes associated with it, and beyond the dismay that you
feel. You really have to go to the root
of it. The root of pain, I feel, is
really always the same. The root of pain
is existence itself. Because you are, there is this pain. If you really are going to forgive, you have
to feel the pain of the hurt all the way to its core, and see right through
it. Yes, it is true. You have been hurt. Maybe it is also true that someone has done
something to you. But if you weren't, that would not have
happened. If you didn't have a mind, a
body, an identity, that wouldn't happen.
But since you do, it is guaranteed that you will be hurt. When the conditions of hurt come together, as
they will, you will be hurt.
The one who hurt you, the story, and the history of that
hurting, are ultimately incidental to the sheer fact of hurt being built into
the condition of life. So if you can get
to that level of experiencing your hurt, or having hurt another (because in the
end being hurt and having hurt another amount to the same thing). if you can
allow yourself to feel the pain to that level, then it is easy to forgive. It is a natural thing. The heart just opens to forgiveness, because
you see that we are all in this together.
So I agree with the woman that forgiving oneself, and
forgiving anyone else who has hurt you, are necessary for spiritual and
emotional health. I am not quite as
confident as she is that twenty minutes a day of journaling will do the trick;
but I am willing to believe that it is possible. You never know! But whether or not it seems true, it really
seems right that forgiveness has to be a daily, regular practice. It has to be a path that you walk down,
probably for your whole life.
For me, the hardest thing of all is forgiving yourself for
being yourself. I think that on some
very deep level, this is the hardest thing.
I think that we all are slightly annoyed with ourselves for being
ourselves. I have always considered it
to be the pinnacle of spiritual life just to allow yourself to be yourself, as you are. They always talk about this in Zen. They talk about it as the supreme and
indelible mark of awakening: That you simply are yourself. It sounds crazy. "Of course I am myself!" What they mean, though, is totally accepting
that you are the way you are. Forgiving
yourself for it, all the way to the bottom.
Short of this, we are always a little bit embarrassed about who we are,
thinking, "I should be better. Why is it
this way?"
So it is hard to forgive yourself. Very hard.
And it is also very hard to forgive somebody else. To forgive another person is actually an internal
act of your own. It is something that
you do, not necessarily for the other person, but for yourself. Because your forgiving someone cannot absolve
that person of responsibility. You
cannot take away their responsibility, because nobody can ever escape the
consequences of their actions. So
although we forgive them, our forgiveness doesn't get them off the hook. It is a mistake to think that somehow we have
gotten them off the hook by our forgiveness.
Only they themselves can do that.
So forgiveness is for us – for the openness of our own hearts, and for
the possibility that we could actually learn how to love. I think we need forgiveness before we can
Some of you know that Kathie's brother, my brother-in-law,
has been ill in the hospital, so I have been spending a lot of time with my
mother and father-in-law. We were talking
in the hospital the other day. It had
been the day after this horrible bombing in Israel, in the disco in Tel
Aviv. My mother and father-in-law were
baffled by this. They could not
understand what is going on there. How
could two peoples – yes, they are different and have different world views –
fail so miserably to appreciate each other?
How could they go on for so long, persisting in hating one another, with
such disastrous consequences? How could
people hate each other just because of their cultural and religious differences? It makes no sense.
Well, the fact is that it does make sense. People have
very good reasons for hating one another: They hate one another because they
are afraid of one another. And since
fear is such a disempowering and unacceptable emotion on a visceral level, we
can't really allow ourselves to feel fear.
It's too much. So we distract
ourselves from it with hatred. Why do
they fear each other? They fear each
other because they feel on a gut level – not just because they made this up,
but because they have past experience to base it on – that the other person,
the other peoples, are a threat to their very existence. A direct threat to their whole sense of
identity. The truth of the matter is
that most of us in the world, including most of us Buddhists, base our life on
identity. If your senses of the world,
if your beliefs, seem not only different from mine, but seem somehow to
absolutely deny the reality of mine, then I am terrified to my very bones. Then I feel that there is no choice. I have to hate you out of self-defense, because
your existence threatens mine.
That is how hatred works on this kind of level. Nobody thinks of it like that, really. They think it is about land, or this or that. They see it manifest every day in external
events. "Members of your group have killed
my family members, have killed my brothers and sisters. have killed my
countrymen – people that I know and lived with.
They have been killed by your people, and their property was taken away;
their language was taken away; their rights were taken away. How could I be
myself if I could forgive or accept that?
How could I face myself in the morning?
It would be like denying my own existence if I were to accept that. How could I face my relatives if I were to
forgive you for having killed them? How could
I deal with my own self-loathing for having betrayed my family?" That is how hatred is created.
Nightmare situations happen in cultures. I saw this in Israel. Jews and Palestinians can't talk to one
another, because they don't even share a basic understanding about what is
going on. There is no narrative or historical
basis for having a conversation. They
even call the same places by different names, and refuse to acknowledge that
the other name exists. If you ask where such-and-such
a street is, somebody will say, "Never heard of it." Not because they don't know it by that name, but
because they refuse to acknowledge that other people do know it as that
It is not that they feel that they are living in different
worlds. They both think that there is only
one reality, but that the other one's view is distorted. They all think that their attitudes are based
on sound, historical events, but if you talk to them about the history and the events,
their stories are different. It seems as
if there are no facts at all about
the past – only faith-based myths disguised as history. So there is no way to talk about it, because
they can't even say what happened. There
is no way to get to the peace table and agree: "This is what happened. This is where we want to go. This is what we need to do."
Again, my point here is that the root of all this sorrow and
pain and suffering is identity and fear – the tremendous fear that we all have
of loss of identity.
I think that we have to respect identity and fear as
powerful motivators in our lives. I
think we can't kid ourselves about that.
Probably, if we could only realize and respect how powerful those
factors are in motivating us, that in itself would be a major political
breakthrough. Just to realize that would
be a huge advance, I think, because this is what motivates all of us in our
social contacts and our relationships.
We always need to know how to negotiate and have some
realistic, hard-nosed ability to make trade-offs; but I am convinced that real
reconciliation, real change of heart, is possible and necessary, not only for
individuals, but for whole societies. It
begins with internal, spiritual work that we do on our cushions and in our
lives. And it continues, when we get up
from our cushions, with how we meet each other – with the heart of forgiveness,
the heart of reconciliation.
Internal work. But
not just internal. I think of some lines
from the poet Robert Creeley:
Inside and
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With Dokic's amazing performance came a chance for Fila to showcase their spring women's collection. We're not going to lie — it's taking us some time to warm up to it. The season's loud print worked best as trim and accents on solid-colored pieces — this is no Cavalli runway show, after all — worn by Dokic and Anna Chakvetadze in their second-round match. Dokic won 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3.
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