This is worth digging into: "Sea star skeletons are composed of intricate networks of pores that minimize material use while maintaining mechanical performance. In conventional engineering materials, adding pores usually reduces stiffness and strength. The sea star overcomes this challenge through carefully controlled architectural design."

I wonder how we can use this research to adapt industry. Also, good on Penn for bringing diversity to the research team!

Haha, I wouldn't actually say anything (sarcasm never transfers on the internet). More of it's interesting that many baby boomers I know in real life think the sky is falling based on metrics that are better than they were when they were kids, and they didn't even have COVID as an excuse.

I opened this thread expecting a bunch of "kids these days..." posts, kind of surprised not to see any. People have been raising themselves up by putting down other generations since the very first I assume, the temptation towards the fallacy of composition is too irresistible.

Why is it appropriate for you to suggest how guys will use that emoji, but it’d be wrong for me to suggest how girls may learn to use a different emoji?

This is not how the guys I know use this emoji, btw.

Who's saying it's inappropriate? You might want to ask them why.

P.S. To get the joke, you have to be familiar with this specific tweet from almost year ago https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1503921387484114944?l... I guess you had to be there.

That’s the same perspective as all my college friends who’ve not found a partner to settle down with (~15y out).