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Gecko footpads are covered with millions of tiny “nanopillars” that can stick to almost anytype of material, enabling the lizards to cling to surfaces, scale walls, and climb trees. Karp and Langer sculpted their biorubber in the shape of these nanopillars and coated it with a sugar-based glue...
...important non-speaking role of the servant in the play as a black man. “When we were auditioning, we would have accepted someone not of color for the role, but when we looked at the cast as a whole, we felt that we had to stick to Williams’ script,” Richards says. When De Metz dropped out, Johnson and Richards had to look for someone new. “We asked BlackCAST to think of anyone they could to fill the role at the last minute,” Richards says...
...fascinates Arnold but also the software--which is to say, the food and, especially, the drink. Cocktails have become his latest obsession. He likes them carbonated with small, even bubbles, which means distilling or spinning out all the little pulpy bits from the juice so the bubbles don't stick to them, which means losing a lot of the acids that give juice its taste, which means figuring out a blend of powdered acids to add back in. That's a lot of effort to solve a problem that didn't exist before Arnold decided that the bubbles needed work...
...Baumeister at Florida State University, for example, suggests that self-control is like a psychological muscle--one that can simply become exhausted. Spend your day trying to maintain your composure with a willful toddler or a demanding boss, and you may not have enough discipline left later to stick to your fitness routine. If that routine involves a diet, things can get even more complicated, as the effort you make to resist having a Snickers in the afternoon depletes your resolve to work out in the evening. "The more you use the self-control muscle," Herbert says, "the more tired...
Even something that ought to help--having a personal trainer--can hurt over time. Research at the University of Saskatchewan shows that while a trainer may ensure that we stick to a fitness program, our resolve melts away once the training sessions end. In these cases, we become so dependent on someone else to monitor our progress that we never develop what psychologists call the self-efficacy to follow a plan...