elisewho 388 photos · 473 followers “At a live taping of the @Slate political gabfest. Topics include "Why is Washington so dreadful?"” Continue reading →

We've all been there: Banging the back of a glass ketchup bottle, begging it to give you a dollop of the good stuff or battling with a plastic bottle coercing it into giving up the last of its contents. Maybe that will be a thing of the past. Six MIT researchers say they've solved that problem as part of an entrepreneurship competition. The result is a bottle coated with "LiquiGlide," a non-toxic material so slippery that the ketchup or for that matter mayonaisse just glids out when you turn it over. Here's a video from Fast Company: Here's what the students told the magazine: "Condiments may sound like a narrow focus for a group of MIT engineers, but not when you consider the impact it ... Continue reading →

As if the inappropriate quote marks weren’t bad enough, “I don’t even know what the hyphen is doing,” reports Marc, who submitted this. Continue reading →

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elisewho 387 photos · 468 followers “.@NPRStateImpact reporters all together at HQ #nprflyin” Continue reading →