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For Tesla’s birthday this week: “The glow retreats, done is our day of toil; / It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring…” Tesla was reciting a Goethe poem when he saw his vision of alternating current.
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And now you know what exactly my husband does for a living over at Light Tape.
A state of the art company that has its product in just about every country you can think of (and then some) is based right here in town. What is Light Tape, what do they make, and why don’t more people know how amazing they are?
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dark matter.
Sure, I work at the internet, but my best friend growing up now gets invited to lecture about dark matter at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Yeah, she’s a Hubble fellow. No big deal.
We talked about really complicated stuff, all those lazy afternoons between preschool and high school graduation. Just kidding. I’d say that statistically, if you graphed it out, mostly we listened to New Kids On the Block.
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While in an MRI machine, the subjects were asked to look at photographs of their ex-partners and think about being rejected.
When they did so, the parts of their brains that manage physical pain—the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior insula, to be exact—lighted up, according to the study.
— Christine Dell’Amore, via National Geographic. (Seriously, this is awesome — not that I needed a study to tell me that rejection is painful.)
