RT @calebhuwm: I'm thinking there's a metaphor, maybe even a metaphysics hidden here somewhere. .

in case anyone needs a recipe for turning cells into glass.

The crustaceans are wielding photonic shields against punch-rended shockwaves and see in 12 colors and you think we humans have reached the pinnacle of evolution??.

For fast-causal restaurants packaging costs are typically on the order of a few % of net sales. Perhaps, as awareness and new research insights emerge, consumers will be prepared to eat more cost to eat clean.

Sustainability alone is not a strong enough value proposition for most consumers to switch products when higher costs are involved. But how much more are we be willing to pay when its for our bodies, not the planet?.

But many kinds of biodegradable polymers (PHAs, PBS, CA to highlight a few) have existed commercially decades and largely failed to displace legacy plastic (<1% volume). In large because in today's landscape of technology-energy-infrastructure biodegradable plastics are more.

Particularly in food contact applications, switching to packaging products which only contain plastics capable of full degradation in the natural environment and our bodies seems to me an essential transition if nanoplastics (& Co) are indeed damaging our health (not to mention.

But the barrier properties, manufacturability, and cost-performance of plastics are hard to replace. what can we do if our food packaging (and so much of our built environment) is shedding nanoparticles and other potentially harmful chemical vectors left and right?.

Recent experiments show the of migration of <100nm 'nanoplastic' particles from everyday plastic surfaces into water has been shown to occur readily (even at room temp) in trillions per liter concentrations. Although this amounts to well below the mass-based limits safe human.

Plastic components in food packaging are pervasive in ways we rarely appreciate or are provided transparency to. Your to-go coffee cup? Lined with polyethylene film. That molded fiber bowl your lunch was delivered in? Many are still coated with styrene emulsions. The grease.

Nowadays everyone's only a few naive questions away from stumbling into a good idea.

RT @jacobrintamaki: "Two Paths To Molecular Nanotechnology: A Long-Form White Paper". This is the start of a conversation, but not the end….

I’ve experienced a multiples increase my rate of idea generation since embracing Perplexity + other AI tools this year. Getting oriented in a new field now takes minutes instead of hours. Time will tell what actual fruit yields. Patents and products are in the pipeline.

nanogrants for nanotech

This was a great conversation. @davidavalerio's eagerness to understand the whys that drive work in service of nature is an important inquiry we can all gain from reflections on.

For added context:.I grew up in the same area we now live. She moved here a few years ago. Yes, the cat was named after Dazzle the Dinosaur.

Just discovered the wildest synchronicity that years before we met, my partner unknowingly bought and framed a copy of a painting my neighbor made of my childhood cat Dazzle…

Begin to imagine the space morphologies and functions once Anthrobots become speciated. (no cells here - just mixing up few types of their droplet cousins)

Refinements to detector and experimental design such as biasing electric and magnetic fields would prove indispensable for the study of radiation for decades to come, enabling discoveries of the positron, muon and kaon, as well as an ionic Strokes album cover (2001).

Sighting a Brocken spectre while summitting Ben Nevis in 1894 inspired Scottish physicist Charles Wilson to study the formation droplets in moist air. Years later he would perfect the first cloud chamber device used to directly visualize ionizing radiation (Nobel in 1927).