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Data Entry, Coffee Dripping, and Other Things as Interesting as Paint Drying

jczetta
November 06, 2011
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Data Entry, Coffee Dripping, and Other Things as Interesting as Paint Drying

What the title says. A five-minute, 20-slide, Ignite Ann Arbor (http://www.igniteannarbor.com) presentation given on 2011.11.06. Video of this talk can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRN64uKQPCU

All content created by me is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Other applicable licenses are noted on slides.

jczetta

November 06, 2011
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  1. data  entry,              coffee  dripping,

                           and  other  things    as  interes2ng  as              paint  drying   Jackie  Cohen    (6  November  2011)   unless  otherwise  noted,  all  material  created  by  me  in  this  presenta@on  is  under  a  Crea@ve  Commons  ABribu@on  Share-­‐Alike  (BY-­‐SA)  license.   CC:BY-­‐SA:  hBp://[email protected]/licenses/by-­‐sa/3.0.  “Rusted  rim.”     Nic  McPhee.  hBp://www.flickr.com/photos/nicmcphee/30399640/.  
  2. CC:BY-­‐SA.  hBp://[email protected]/by-­‐sa/2.0.     Julius  Schorzman,  “A  small  cup  of

     coffee”,  hBp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_small_cup_of_coffee.  
  3. colloids!   •  like  paint   •  or  milk  

    •  a  substance  microscopically   dispersed  evenly   throughout  another   substance   •  ofen  appear  like  solu@ons   (in  the  chemical  sense)   •  (not  the  solve-­‐a-­‐problem   sense)   •  (though  some  can  be   problem  solu@ons  too)   •  preBy  cool   CC:  BY-­‐SA,  hBp://[email protected]/licenses/by-­‐sa/3.0.  “Espace  Opera  Milk.”  Chedid,  hBp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milk.jpg  
  4. the  Tyndall  effect   CC:BY-­‐SA,  hBp://[email protected]/licenses/by-­‐sa/3.0.  by  Chris  73,  commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WaterandFlourSuspensionLiquid.jpg

      •  light  scaBering  through  par@cles  in  a   colloid   •  blue  light  scaBered  more  strongly   than  red  light   •  used  to  determine  size/density  of   par@cles  in  aerosols,  other  colloidal   maBer   •  colloidal  par@cles  -­‐-­‐  roughly  the  size   of  a  wavelength  of  light   •  poten@ally  no@ceable  on  overcast   days,  people’s  blue  eyes,  when  you   put  flour  in  water,  and  spray  paint  
  5. DOI:  10.1073/pnas.1005537107.  hBp://news.yale.edu/2010/08/09     •  coa@ngs  dry  and  peel

      •  change  the  materials  beneath  them   •  coa@ngs  fail  in  interes@ng  ways   •  can  visualize  the  microscopic  mo@ons  of  par@cles   Eric  Dufresne  lab  @  Yale:   “the  process  is  far  from  mundane  .  .  .  “  
  6. CC:BY-­‐NC-­‐SA,  hBp:// [email protected]/     licenses/by-­‐nc-­‐sa/2.0.   “Paint  in  a

     muffin  @n”,   bethany  actually,  hBp:// www.flickr.com/photos/ bethanygronberg/ 1621021789/