DoE with Drinking

Today I learned people work on statistical experiment design by mixing alcohol. Its a journal paper on mixing DoE.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2685100?seq=1

Polaroid Film

Today I learned how Polaroid film works. I mean the actual chemical reactions (at least on a basic level) and how 14 layers were required and activated by a strong base in the bottom white part that was squeezed onto the film when the film was ejected and how the die diffused up to the surface selectively! So cool!  Also the fact that this process took 14 years to develop - something that would never be funded in industry today.

Define: Polysemy

Today I learned the word polysemy: the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase, or as described in this talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html) "the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves".