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   by birgitt 5y ago

   We're commercializing highly repellent, nature-inspired, liquid-infused coatings here: We're also commercializing one of them here: https://spotlessmaterials.com/ Our tech: https://www.nature.com/a
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   by birgitt 5y ago

   This is so cool! Liquid-infused coatings and materials often are more slippery than Teflon. I wrote a book chapter with my colleagues about nature-inspired repellent materials: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&amp
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   by birgitt 6y ago

   I think we had a few copies of this in my high school's jazz band (the director of the movie Whiplash was from the same band). I played the flute so had inch thick folders of handwritten music transposed from the tenor sax or trumpet p
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   by birgitt 6y ago

   I used to think rhetorical devices were just ways to sound fancy, but they can be effective tools for transferring emotion or conveying nuanced concepts from author to reader. E.g., analogy can be more efficient at this than plain descripti
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   by birgitt 6y ago

   Groundhogs are wonderful too! I had one for 4 years before she passed away. Best pet I've ever had. https://instagram.com/winniethewoodchuck
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   by birgitt 7y ago

   Hi Everyone! Birgitt here from spotLESS Materials -- we are commercializing this technology and some of the authors of the Nature Sustainability paper are part of our team. I'll try answering some of the questions I'm seeing. Woul