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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. My proudest career achievement is the 10 Million Trees project I undertook with Parisa.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

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So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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I think Yves Pomeau already had a theoretical argument for this, but as far as I was concerned, it was (at least at first) just a “next thing to try”. I quickly determined that there were no such rules with 2 colors and blocks of sizes 2 or 3 that achieved any kind of randomization.

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