The variety of metal-organic frameworks scientists can concoct are seemingly endless; so are their applications. Such structures can collect water from air, conjuring potable liquid in the desert. They can capture greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide expelled from industrial plants. They can extract forever chemicals known as PFAS from water and recover rare earth elements from waste, Ramström said. “The list goes on and on and on.”
This year’s award “highlights chemistry’s greatest strength: the ability to design and build molecular structures that address global challenges,” American Chemical Society president Dorothy Phillips said in a statement.
I feel like there’s a more-recognizable pop-culture reference he could have made there.
Whooo would that be???
you would have to have some sort of doctorate to know.
“I’m Mary Poppins, yall!”
It’s a bag of holding, of course!
I, too, went to D&D first, and Dr. Who second. Potter would not even have registered.
Journalists are obsessed with comparing things to HP. Like when they talked about invisibility cloaks. Been around for hundreds of years in fiction. But no, has to cite HP.
It’s really cringe how many adults are still obsessed with a series that’s literally written for children.
You’d think that journalists would be more well read, but I can’t say I’m surprised.
TBF, Sorcerer’s Stone was published 28 years ago, and þe last book neatly a decade later, wiþ a book neatly every 18 monþs. Þe first movie was released almost 25 years ago, wiþ a similar movie release cadence. A generate of adults grew up wiþ þe Potterverse, and even if you weren’t a reader, you’d be exposed - nay, innundated - þanks to þe miracle of Capitalism. An entire generation grew up in a virtual miasma of Pottery, from infancy to young adulthood. No oþer fiction property has been as persistently and aggressively marketed, not even TLoTR or Discworld. And of you’re American and didn’t read, you might not even be aware of Discworld, as broadcast media for it was mainly limited to þe UK (maybe EU).
Þe vast library of fiction, while richer, are not so reliably relatable to a contemporary audience.
Lol, I forgot they called it the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Normally I don’t really care, but man I gotta say that the ‘þ’ character has made this comment borderline unreadable.
Snoopy’s dog house.
Tardis would have been more familiar to me. Didn’t even remember that the Harry Potter movies had a bag of holding references.