While I imagined the previous house as scaling upward in size, arched linear space, mosque like balance, and you could add silos for vertical wind turbines resembling minarets. I also imagined smaller more compact bundles of cargo containers. The half height container used as a girder covers a lot of space under it's length and serves as roof beam, skylight and solar power. Also employed are half quonset sides which could be replaced by a retractable pool/patio covers to open to the outside. The fun comes in: what if your cosplay and afrofuture outfits were standard attire and metaphysics the common understanding?? Does the present Paul Revere/western reserve architecture match your mind spread? I think before we get to amorphous forms we will combine standard form units into a variable architecture. Look forward to more digital artwork (trans-imaging) and more embracing of nature in a balance.
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The Occult World of Philippa Schuyler
by James Goodridge
The circumstance was the visit of my son and his girl friend visiting for the holidays Christmas 2016 a brutal year in the world of music that made me do what I did . "Hey pop can I play with this ?"( I've change
her name to Ruth for this story) asks , smiling at my OUIJA board sitting all by its lonesome self on a shelf
among cds,dvds, vhs tapes(don't judge me I keep them because among the tapes I have left to view is a classic home recorded Plan 9 From Outer Space I taped off of the old WOR channel 9 ) and books. I myself have never used the board having brought the glow in the dark, hours of fun item at a thrift shop for a dollar , but after hearing way too many stories on late night radio advising against it use , being that it could be a portal for unnamed evil unknowns, in other words you think your talkin to Grand ma , but in fact its the Demon Box of Ebril your chatting with . I give in to her innocent pleading , but I warn her sounding like Peter Cushing in an old Hammer film what she may be in for trying to contact her Aunt, but Ruth being a millenial doesn't pay me no mind . A lone red candle helps us see the OUIJA board in the livingroom darkness, my son Monte I can see does what to do this but hes a trooper. We get a message from her Aunt more like a warning that who or whatever is NOT her Aunt , the planchette moves back and forth. Then I can't help it " Philippa are you here?" yell out.
Afican American classical pianst , right wing journalist,feminist in her later years along with parleying with Stokley Carmichael and devout Catholic, Philippa Schuyler was a woman of paradoxical life flows. A child prodigy with an IQ said to be 185 , the biracial daughter of George Schuyler a figure in the Harlem renaissance movement and Josephine Codgell Schuyler a member of a prominent rich Texas family, Philippa would be compared to Mozart early in her career( for a haunting rendition of Ravel's "Alborada del gracioso " it can be found on Youtube) as a composer. I first came across Ms. Schuyler"s life story while doing research on lesser known black historical figures to be included in a series of occult detective stories. I was fascinated by the contradictions in her life. A role model to the black community yet , at one point she tried to pass herself off as white using the name Monterro in the classical music world which had its biases. " Compositions in Black and White" by Kathryn Talalay(Oxford Press 1995) is a well written biograghy of Schuyler's life and the racial dynamic and conflict during the piansts life, I credit her book with helping my research. But it seems whether intended or not Schuylers occult leanings where left out. By chance while online looking for a book on dream divination , I came across a title : Kingdom of Dreams by Josephine and Philippa Duke Schuyler , (1966 Award books) and then reprinted in 1968 a year after her death and around the time of her mothers suicide.I ordered it. While this book is not mentioned in Talalay's book (another mystery is the middle maiden name Duke) she does let on that Schuyler's interested started in 1952 while on tour in Curacao, after being targeted in a kidnapping attempt she met a mysterious Herr van Kleed who introduced her to the reading of TAROT cards and a crystal ball reading , which among other visions predicted a plane crash . Kingdom of Dreams seems to me having read her style of writting in snipets was written by Philippa in the majority. A book that speaks to us in symbolic terms about dreams (as a child she would sleep for ten plus hours dreaming) and their meanings and self help, it stretches into a defense of alchemy and its heroes the immortal St. Germain, Paracelsus and Robert Fludd. Schuyler also felt a connection between Kasl Jungs theories and the alchemists work within the natural world was the key to life along with dream divination and numerology.
The unseen realm of demons vampires,leprechuans,gnomes,pidwidgeons,mermans/maids ,trolls
sucucbi, incubi etc.. included. And while she admits it is a fake Schuyler has a defensive interest in the Wheel of Pythagoras representing : God, microcosm/man and macrocosm/world. Schuyler believed that science was not infallible and that there was a "theory of analogy or the magic association of ideas" led by the signs of the zodiac. Phillippa Schuyler drowned off the coast of Vietnam in the Da nang sector when a U.S. army
helicopter she was riding in with Catholic orphans she was taking to a safer haven crashed into the
ocean in 1967. After a funeral in St. Patrick Cathedral she was cremated. My temples feel as if someone is pressing books or some thing hard on both sides, the planchtte moves under Ruth, my son Monte and I hands across the board giving Phillippa's or I hope Philippa's answer :
N V 3 . N V 3 ?
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| The Quantum Neural Network comprises a 1 km loop of optical fibre, a phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) (Courtesy: QNNcloud) |
Topics: Computer Science, Quantum Computer, Quantum Mechanics
An optical system for solving combinatorial optimization problems has been made available for use online, say its creators in Japan. Called the Quantum Neural Network (QNN), the system has been developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, and the University of Tokyo.
Combinatorial optimization problems involve evaluating large numbers of possible solutions to a problem and identifying the best one. A familiar example is the "travelling salesman problem" whereby a person wishes to visit several different destinations by the shortest possible route. Such problems can be found in a wide range of human endeavour from scheduling medical procedures in a hospital to maximizing the performance of a complex system like an aircraft.
Observation/Comment: In a paraphrase to "they are laughing at us," the rest of the world seems to be lapping us, technologically.
Open-access quantum computer goes live in Japan, Hamish Johnston, Physicsworld.com
I cant even say i was surprised at this one. Went to go see the Justice League movie and came away with the result that it was a rush job. Sorry DC fans this one sucked, they had everything to create a great rivalry with Marvel and they blew it by rushing this to the theater too quick. Aquaman came out like he was nothing Cyborg man please dont get me started on Cyborg. Each of the charachters needed their own movies as intros to the team up but nooooooooooooo! Number one Steppenwolf aka cgi master, can knock out Aquaman in the water that easy????? Man please! Underwater he is can take out superman one on one. All that work into Jason and thats how they play him like he was second rate. Oh but superman just waltzes in and whooped up on Stepchild like he was a red headed step son easily???!! Pitiful?!! What kind of crap was that? Struggling at the box office, oh yeah because everyone is pissed off at what they saw!! I want that hour plus back in my life!!!!!!!
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| The band structure of a bandgap-opened bilayer graphene is shown in the upper left corner, where the trigonal warping effect results in three pockets near the edge of conduction and valence bands. Infrared light illuminates bilayer graphene and creates an exciton (a bound state of an electron and an electron hole), located mostly in the top and bottom layer of carbon atoms respectively. Courtesy: Long Ju and Enrique Sahagún Alonso (Scixel) |
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Graphene, Particle Physics, Nanotechnology
Researchers in the US have succeeded in observing excitons in bilayer graphene for the first time using photocurrent spectroscopy and modified Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy techniques. The new result could help in the development of next-generation optoelectronics instruments, such as tunable infrared detectors, light-emitting diodes and lasers for molecular spectroscopy, thermal imaging and astronomy applications.
“The excitons we observed can be tuned using an electrical field, have a high quality factor, strongly absorb light and lie in the technologically important mid-infrared to terahertz wavelength range,” explains team member and lead author of the study Long Ju, who is at Cornell University. “No other conventional semiconductor contains such excitons.”
Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms just one atom thick arranged in a honeycomb lattice. It is a semi-metal and does not contain a bandgap in its pristine state. Bilayer graphene is different, however, in that a large and tunable bandgap can be induced in it using an applied electric field – something that cannot be done for single-layer graphene.
Researchers theorize that bilayer graphene also supports tunable excitons (electron-hole pairs) but these had never been actually observed in an experiment until now.
Excitons seen in bilayer graphene, Belle Dumé, Nanotechweb.org
I live in South Korea and it's been a weird month at the DMZ/related to the DMZ.
First, there was the Louisiana guy who tried to break into North Korea. He got caught.
Then there was wild DMZ escape by the North Korean staff sergeant you've undoubtfully read about in the news. He came with ringworms/roundworms about 10 inches long and several bullet wounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ7gEg90K08
And finally, the black guy Jimmy Carter rescued died in tragic circumstances in San Diego. Tragic and mysterious.
What's gonna happen next month, huh?
Above is the link for the pinup of book of Little Miss Strange... more goodies coming
Hello Peeps,
Currently I'm in the final stages of applying for a grad program at Michigan State called Literary Neuroscience. This program has had "general" internet info circulating for maybe only 7 years, with arguably a location of no more than 5 schools in the whole USA. After taking the GRE today and sending out my scores to these scores, I was curious in wondering, "Are there any predominantly/historically black schools that house programs with similar combined studies of literature and cognition?" Even though the term "literary neuroscience" is relatively new, I'm sure the concept isn't. As an old saying goes, "There is nothing new under the Sun." Plus, one of thee world's foremost conventional experts on Brain Surgery & Neuroscience is renown doctor/author, Ben Carson, also from Detroit, MI. If anyone has answers and/or feedback to this vital question, let me know. And even if I do end up in Michigan, East Lansing is likely to be somewhat of a post-gentrified Nu Detroit, where in the next 5-10 years, they'll be no shortage from people of color.
Happy Black Friday Shopping Season - AL Bey
That's right i said it Challenge for the week if you are an Artist,Writer, whatever the case. If you are a writer do 10 Pages a day for the next week and prove it by Saturday the 25th. That is 70 pages by one week. Now here is the caveat you have to do it in the time frame of your normal day if you cant than try using an hour by hour schedule to see what you are doing that is wasting some time. Nuff said we are all adults here we go!
Also, I launched my comics line last month with WINTERMAN COMICS #1
#2 drops at the end of this month and so on. In 2018 three new titles will arrive in a very interesting way.
The comics are sold digital-only on AMAZON (for now. other outlets when i get some free time to make the appropriate files)
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Topics: Commentary, Diversity, Humor, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Women in Science
I finally used my Fire Stick - post the Kodi "jail break" for watching some well-deserved (and on-demand) escapist TV, especially appreciated while doing graduate school.
I'm glad the producers ignored the misogynist/racist rabid puppies/sad puppies/pound puppies (my add) with regards to a female Captain Philippa Georgiou, played by Michelle Yeoh and a female first officer that's the main focus of the series - Michael Burnham, played by Sonequa Martin-Green. I guess the need-of-neutering crowd missed all those female admirals in TNG, DS9 as well as Captain Katherine Janeway that probably rose up the ranks on their command and management skills* as well as knowing a few things theoretical and practical about their respective (fictional) warp cores. It's annoying that as a person of color, I cannot see or watch a science fiction (the operative word is "fiction") without commentary when the genre has been diversified and some get their panties in a wad. It's as if we're invisible and not credible (at least in their mindsets) in technical realms. Also note Thor: Ragnarök - Tessa Thompson; NK Jemisin (Google rabid puppies/sad puppies - they're a hoot!).
Klingons: uglier. Some have compared them to fans of our current POTUS (for however long that, or the species lasts). I'm not sure about the 24 houses thing, but I'm a little concerned in a hundred years, we're supposed to get Worf out of these guys! They remarkably improve their looks, apparently.
Vulcans: snootier. I mean we got they didn't like Sarek, his human wife Amanda (Pon Farr, dude?) and his half breed son Spock, but they threw a sister in the mix of an already unique family to reveal other than Sarek, Vulcans are xenophobic pricks! And isn't "logic extremist" an oxymoron? We're a far cry from T'Pring, Stan and the whole Pon Farr ritual mating, as in this reboot time line, Spock gave the middle finger to the Vulcan Science Academy and apparently has a ("it's complicated") thing with Uhura.
Humans: PTSD. That was a shocker, since Roddenberry left us with the impression science cured everything from the common cold to world hunger. Although, Captain Lorca sauntering about with a phaser in his back hip to his door is probably NOT a good look! (If he has an accident, you KNOW someone's going to post it on Galactic Facebook.) With the reintroduction of Harry Mudd, they obviously didn't eliminate money either, else the character has no motivation to be a smuggler and all-around jerk.
The Trek series are always influenced by the time periods the respective series are produced in. In the 1960s you had miniskirts, The Cold War (that's lately gotten chummy, picking our president for us and all); Sean Connery's James Bond, so William Shatner's James T. Kirk had to be his space cowboy equivalent (with the exception of green alien women). Worf on board the Enterprise and the United Federation of Planets' allegiance to the Klingon empire preceded the Berlin Wall coming down by four television years. TNG discovered quite late in the maturity of the series that Jean Luc Picard - a faux Frenchman who rarely spoke French, drank Earl Grey and said English colloquialisms like "shed-yule" - might have sex once in a while (can't let William T. Riker have all the fun). Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine was during both terms of the Bill Clinton presidency (per Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, our "first black president" before we actually had one). Captain Janeway led Voyager through the Delta quadrant between an infamous blue dress and hanging chads with three powerful women that seemed clones of Hillary Clinton: Janeway, B'Elanna Torres (half Klingon) and former Borg 7 of 9. Enterprise brought up the rear with a short series that matched our shortened attention spans post 9/11, plus the future was here and our infatuation with it waned as we worried about explosive shoes and dwindling civil liberties in the War on Terror. This new series has an openly gay couple - a scientist, Lt. Stamets - played by Anthony Rapp - responsible for "spore drive" (using a macro-ripper, souped up five-dimensional tardigrade, because speeds > c on fungal power is so plausible) and the ship's doctor played by Wilson Cruz, something that would have gotten Roddenberry and company canceled in a fortnight (Exhibit A: the kiss between Kirk and Uhura wasn't broadcast in southern markets for years). Times have truly changed.
Tongue-in-cheek commentary: I'm taking umbrage with the openers for TOS and TNG:
(TOS) Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
(TNG) Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Sounds regal...noble, almost altruistic. I'm here to say it's pure hokum and futuristic political posturing. I'll explain.
Remember the growth formula?
N = N0ert, where N0 = initial number, r = 0.02 (for humans) and t = time.
As of 2017, we're roughly 7.6 billion people on the planet.
The fictional World War III on the Trek time line takes place in 2026 (eek) to 2053, shaving off 37 million souls - a lot, but assuming this subtraction is calculated AFTER the fictional war (27 years duration):
2026 - 2017 = 9 years, so that increases us to 9,098,851,960 at the beginning.
9,098,851,960*e0.02*27 - 37,000,000 = 1.55766924 x 1010, or 15.6 BILLION people, presumably after nuclear war, nuclear winter, eugenics, famine, drugs, etc before "first contact" with what we'd soon discover as Vulcan snobbery.
To get to Kirk's time 110 years later: 1.55766924 x 1010*e0.02*110 = 1.405798592 x 1011, or 140.6 BILLION people. I leave it to you to calculate the 24th century's burst at the seams. All it requires is a calculator with a "ln" (natural logarithm) function key. ex is usually the second function key option, or close by. It also requires places for all these people, who are being "fruitful and multiplying" to go, and a means to get there for cities, schools, industry, potable water, food, video games and procreation.
See how our future descendants' motivations might be a little less than altruistic?
You just might need force fields, phasers and photon torpedoes as you "boldy go" and "explore" real estate in somebody else's parsec. Humans - gotta love us - can get downright pushy when we colonize anything!
We've also got a history where that didn't work out well for the natives encountered.
And other sentient beings - Klingons, Vulcans, Romulans, Borg, et al despite space being the "final frontier" and a lot of it, might they consider our encroachment - and our prodigious human reproductive powers - at sub light (most likely) or warp speed - rude?
It boils down to the admitted grit and tensions designed in Star Trek: Discovery are simply the same we're experiencing over resources and politics on Terra Firma. It is the Trek for these times, and the most realistic thing about the fantasy franchise.
Related links:
[Article] – Star Trek: Discovery – The Sci-Fi We Need Right Now, Ronita Mohan, Film Debate, UK
Den of Geek: Star Trek: A History of Female Starfleet Captains on TV
Internet Movie Database - To "Boldly Go": The Women of Star Trek
*Memory Alpha:
Captain (promoted to Admiral) Kathryn Janeway
Star Trek dot com's interactive database - you'll catch up quick.
okay.
It's been a while so i think is should start out with this.
Next year, in addition to what we all expect to be the miraculous and life-changing BLACK PANTHER feature film, there will also be a new version of the Marvel animated AVENGERS series, featuring Black Panther as well.
When I say "feature" I really mean "focus on" because this next season is so much about Black Panther that they retitled the show to make it clear.
For four seasons the show was called MARVEL'S AVENGERS: ASSEMBLE. NEXT season it will be called MARVEL'S AVENGERS: BLACK PANTHER'S QUEST.
I'm mentioning it here for two reasons.
1) Folks around here need to watch the hell out of this show. It's a totally different vibe than what's gone before on these TV series.
2) The reason I know this is because I'm the head writer. I'm not legally allowed to say anything more than this at this time.
Working for Marvel is like working for the CIA. But I thought I'd drop some info now so you guys can get prepped. By "prepped" I mean "Buckle up."
Here's some of the redesigned characters from the show.
That's it for now. come find me at GAME OF THORNES on twitter if you want to stay up on it or, just watch this space.
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| A simulation of the dark matter distribution in the universe 13.6 billion years ago. ILLUSTRATION COURTESY VOLKER SPRINGEL, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ASTROPHYSICS, ET AL, NatGeo |
Topics: Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Neutrons, Research, Theoretical Physics
Alliteration source: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13:12
Scientists at the University of Sussex have disproved the existence of a specific type of axion - an important candidate 'dark matter' particle - across a wide range of its possible masses.
The data were collected by an international consortium, the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment (nEDM) Collaboration, whose experiment is based at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland. Data were taken there and, earlier, at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble.
Professor Philip Harris, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex, and head of the nEDM group there, said:
"Experts largely agree that a major portion of the mass in the universe consists of 'dark matter'. Its nature, however, remains completely obscure. One kind of hypothetical elementary particle that might make up the dark matter is the so-called axion. If axions with the right properties exist it would be possible to detect their presence through this entirely novel analysis of our data.
"We've analyzed the measurements we took in France and Switzerland and they provide evidence that axions – at least the kind that would have been observable in the experiment – do not exist. These results are a thousand times more sensitive than previous ones and they are based on laboratory measurements rather than astronomical observations. This does not fundamentally rule out the existence of axions, but the scope of characteristics that these particles could have is now distinctly limited.
"The results essentially send physicists back to the drawing board in our hunt for dark matter."
Hunt for dark matter is narrowed by new research, Phys.org More information: C. Abel et al. Search for Axionlike Dark Matter through Nuclear Spin Precession in Electric and Magnetic Fields, Physical Review X (2017). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041034
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| Illustration of the ten-qubit processor (Courtesy: Chao Song et al/ Physical Review Letters) |
Topics: Nanotechnology, Quantum Computer, Quantum Mechanics, Superconductors
Physicists in China and the US have built a 10-qubit superconducting quantum processor that could be scaled up to tackle problems not solvable by classical computers. The performance of the device was verified using quantum tomography, which showed that the new approach can generate a true 10-partite Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state – the largest yet achieved in a solid-state system.
The field of quantum computing is in its infancy, and a genuinely useful, practical device that outperforms classical computers has not yet been built. At this stage of development, researchers do not even agree on the basics of implementation, but techniques employing superconducting circuits have an advantage over some other designs in that they are based on established and scalable microfabrication processes.
Superconducting quantum computer achieves 10-qubit entanglement
Marric Stephens, Physics World
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| Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region Flickr (CC BY 2.0) |
Topics: Climate Change, Ecology, Existentialism
A U.S. Forest Service scientist who was scheduled to talk about the role that climate change plays in wildfire conditions was denied approval to attend the conference featuring fire experts from around the country.
William Jolly, a research ecologist with the agency's Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Mont., was supposed to give a 30-minute presentation titled "Climate-Induced Variations in Global Severe Fire Weather Conditions" at the International Fire Congress in Orlando, Fla., next month. The event is hosted by the Association for Fire Ecology (AFE).
The travel denial follows reports last week that U.S. EPA blocked three scientists from making presentations at a conference in Rhode Island featuring climate change. Critics accused the Trump administration of stifling the dissemination of taxpayer-funded science.
"It's kind of weird that they would make it hard for a government scientist to take part in this because managing wildfire is a huge challenge logistically and financially on a vast array of federal lands," he said. "These scientists, by participating in these kinds of society meetings, share their thoughts and hear other people's thoughts, which is important because their work is supposed to form how these lands are managed and how we prepare for and adapt under climate change."
Government Scientist Blocked from Talking About Climate and Wildfires Brittany Patterson, Scientific American, ClimateWire
Rollo Ahmed sounds like someone worth looking into, His volume on magick and the supernatural might make a good addition to libraries on the subject.
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| Penn researchers are collaborating to study how giant clams convert sunlight into energy, which could lead to more efficient production of biofuel. Photo credit: Malcolm Browne |
Topics: Biochemistry, Green Energy, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Physics, Solar Power
Alison Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania has been studying giant clams since she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. These large mollusks, which anchor themselves to coral reefs in the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, can grow to up to three-feet long and weigh hundreds of pounds. But their size isn’t the only thing that makes them unique. Anyone who has ever gone snorkeling in Australia or the western tropical Pacific Ocean, Sweeney says, may have noticed that the surfaces of giant clams are iridescent, appearing to sparkle before the naked eye. The lustrous cells on the surface of the clam scatter bright sunlight, which typically runs the risk of causing fatal damage to the cell, but the clams efficiently convert the sunlight into fuel. Using what they learn from these giant clams, the researchers hope to improve the process of producing biofuel.
Sweeney, an assistant professor of physics in the Penn School of Arts and Sciences, and her collaborator Shu Yang, a professor of materials science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, refer to the clams as “solar transformers” because they are capable of absorbing bright sunlight at a very high rate and scattering it over a large surface area. When the light is distributed evenly among the thick layer of algae living inside the clam, the algae quickly converts the light into energy.
“What those sparkly cells are doing,” Sweeney says, “is causing light to propagate very deeply into the clam tissue and spread out.”
“What those sparkly cells are doing,” Sweeney says, “is causing light to propagate very deeply into the clam tissue and spread out.”
After coming across Sweeney’s work, Yang struck up a collaboration to see if they could mimic the system by abstracting the principles of the clam’s process to create a material that works similarly. She and Ph.D. student Hye-Na Kim devised a method of synthesizing nanoparticles and adding them to an emulsion — a mixture of water, oil, and soapy molecules called surfactants — to form microbeads mimicking the iridocytes, the cells in giant clams responsible for solar transforming. Their paper has been published in Advanced Materials.
Penn Researchers Working to Mimic Giant Clams to Enhance the Production of Biofuel Ali Sundermier, Evan Lerner, University of Pennsylvania News
