yc grad school advice, beetle
On the Y-Combinator site, there is some interesting advice for someone who is dissatisfied with grad school but still wants to "find elegant solutions to difficult problems that have wide-reaching implications". (via Michael Nielsen)
I had a dream last night in which someone suggested to me to use a beetle shell for a roof. I looked up beetle shell texture, and found this press release at MIT about people who are researching the Namib Desert Beetle's shell and making materials to mimic it. Their scientific paper is called "Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Toward a Synthetic Mimic of the Namib Desert Beetle." It says that potential applications include "water harvesting surfaces, controlled drug release coatings, open-air microchannel devices, and lab-on-chip devices." So maybe some day we will have water-harvesting roofs based on this idea.
I had a dream last night in which someone suggested to me to use a beetle shell for a roof. I looked up beetle shell texture, and found this press release at MIT about people who are researching the Namib Desert Beetle's shell and making materials to mimic it. Their scientific paper is called "Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Toward a Synthetic Mimic of the Namib Desert Beetle." It says that potential applications include "water harvesting surfaces, controlled drug release coatings, open-air microchannel devices, and lab-on-chip devices." So maybe some day we will have water-harvesting roofs based on this idea.