In another example, 1-micrometer-diameter magnetic disks were successfully transferred onto a floss fiber of a milkweed seed. The technique proved successful for a large range of surfaces, including printing onto the sharp point of a pin, and writing the word "NIST" in microscale gold lettering onto a single strand of human hair. Alternatively, patterned materials could be transferred from their original chip onto fibers or microbeads for potential biomedical or microrobotics studies, or over sharp or curved surfaces within new devices. Using this technique, called REFLEX (REflow-driven FLExible Xfer), microcircuit patterns could be transferred like a stencil to allow scientists or manufacturers to etch and fill the materials they need in the right places. Then, using water, the sugar can be washed away, leaving just the pattern behind. The sugar/ corn syrup combination maintains a high viscosity as it melts, letting the pattern maintain its arrangement as it flows over curves and edges. The candy with the print is then placed over the new surface and melted. ![]() Once the water evaporates, the candy hardens and can be lifted away with the pattern embedded. When dissolved in a small amount of water, this sugar mixture can be poured over micropatterns on a flat surface. But that can be tricky too with a freely flowing liquid it can be hard to place the print precisely where you want it on a new surface.īut, as Zabow discovered to his surprise, a simple combination of caramelized sugar and corn syrup can do the trick. There are liquid techniques, where the transfer material is floated on the surface of water and the target surface is pushed through it. Using sugar and corn syrup (i.e., candy), researcher Gary Zabow transferred the word "NIST" in gold letters onto a human hair. They could also leave behind plastics or other chemicals that could be hard to remove or be unsafe for biomedical uses. There are flexible tapes and plastics that can do the job (like using putty to pick up newsprint), but these solids can still have trouble conforming to sharp curves and corners when the print is laid back down. But as the possibilities for semiconductor chips and smart materials expand, these intricate, tiny patterns need to be printed on new, unconventional, non-flat surfaces.ĭirectly printing these patterns on such surfaces is tricky, so scientists transfer prints. Traditionally, these tiny mazes of metals and other materials are printed on flat wafers of silicon. Semiconductor chips, micropatterned surfaces, and electronics all rely on microprinting, the process of putting precise but minuscule patterns millionths to billionths of a meter wide onto surfaces to give them new properties. ![]() Could regular table sugar be used to bring the power of microchips to new and unconventional surfaces? Zabow's findings on this potential transfer printing process were published in Science on Nov. The colors indicated that the arrays of microdots had retained their unique pattern. "It was those rainbow colors that really surprised me," Zabow recalls. But they weren't really missing instead of releasing into the water, they had been transferred onto the bottom of the glass where they were casting a rainbow reflection. ![]() Except this time when he rinsed out the beaker, the microdots were gone. He would just dissolve away the sugar, as normal. The sugar dissolves easily in water, freeing the magnetic dots for their studies without leaving any harmful plastics or chemicals behind.īy chance, Zabow had left one of these sugar pieces, embedded with arrays of micromagnetic dots, in a beaker, and it did what sugar does with time and heat-it melted, coating the bottom of the beaker in a gooey mess. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar-hard candy, basically-and sending these sweet packages to colleagues in a biomedical lab. ![]() NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. The REFLEX process transferred 1-micron disk arrays onto the sharp point of a pin.
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![]() Dunn also hosts the podcast Bad with Money, which launched in 2016 and which primarily focuses on personal finances, while also discussing subjects including poverty and economic oppression. Since 2014, Dunn has hosted the YouTube comedy show and podcast Just Between Us with fellow former BuzzFeed writer Allison Raskin. More than any of the rest of his relationships, this points to some deeper psychological issues going on with Jerry.Gabriel Shane Dunn (formerly Gaby Dunn born June 1, 1988) is an American writer, podcaster, actor, and filmmaker. For Jerry, who’s in his late 30s here, to feel the need to break off a relationship because of his parents’ approval - that’s extremely petty. She’s wonderful, and they have a great relationship. George and Kramer call her a loser, but Jerry actually dumps Ellen because his parents approve of her. Raskin’s Reasoning: “She doesn’t have any friends. When They Dated: “The Van Buren Boys,” Season 8, Episode 14 There’s a real lesson here.” Play 1 Ellen You should be able to handle your partner’s body and the idea that your partner has to be physically attractive to you every moment of the day is really, really petty. ![]() Raskin’s Reasoning: “Not to reveal too much, but I very much relate to this character - I do a lot of my chores naked. Why They Broke Up: She walked around naked too much. When They Dated: “The Apology,” Season 9, Episode 9 It’s petty, but it’s a societal bias, which is hard to work through.” Raskin’s Reasoning: “This highlights the stigma people have around phone sex workers, which is a societal issue more so than a personal issue. Why They Broke Up: He believed her to be a phone sex worker. When They Dated: “The Stall,” Season 5, Episode 12 Plus, he was pretty happy with her before that.” Play 19 Jane I think that’s the reason for the breakup, which is kind of petty because he’s more concerned about how others are perceiving him, as opposed to the actual happiness he was getting from the relationship. I think, when George and Susan became more affectionate, Jerry saw what it was like for someone else to be lovey-dovey and thought it was disgusting. Raskin’s Reasoning: “Jerry says they couldn’t make a mental connection, but I don’t believe that. ![]() ![]() Why They Broke Up: Though she was physically affectionate, they couldn’t make the connection mentally. When They Dated: “The Soup Nazi,” Season 7, Episode 6 I think it’s the saddest one, but it’s more about their own issues around commitment than any kind of pettiness.” Raskin’s Reasoning: “I think Jerry and Elaine are meant for each other, but they’re both too afraid. Why They Broke Up: On the show, Jerry once told his parents that he and Elaine fought too much, and they had an issue with “physical chemistry.” Later on, when they tried to arrange a “friends-with-benefits” situation, they couldn’t make it work because they developed feelings for each other. When They Dated: Before Season 1, and in “The Deal,” Season 2, Episode 9 It’s the most valid reason of all.” Play 37 Elaine Raskin’s Reasoning: “I want to make a firm stand and say that someone being racist is a great reason to break up with them. When They Dated: “The Yada Yada,” Season 8, Episode 19 Some, much to Raskin’s own surprise, were perfectly justifiable reasons to end a relationship, but others are far more petty than they might even appear. She agreed to help me rank every time Jerry dumped a woman on the show, plus the times the women in his life broke up with him due to his own pettiness. It’s one of the pettiest breakups over the show’s nine seasons, but is it the pettiest? And were all of Jerry’s breakups really that petty?įor answers, I turned to comedian, podcaster, relationship expert and Seinfeld superfan Allison Raskin, author of Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD and/or Depression. But Jerry quickly walks back his transformation when he dumps Melanie for eating her peas one-at-a-time. In an attempt to remain true to their word (at least temporarily), George gets engaged to his ex-girlfriend Susan, while Jerry briefly reunites with Melanie, a woman he dumped for shushing him. We’re pathetic!” Afterward, he and George form a pact to grow up. We come up with all these stupid little reasons to break up with these women. “What kind of lives are these? We’re like children. “What are we doing?” he asks George at the coffee shop. During the Season Seven premiere of Seinfeld, Jerry comes to a realization about his dating life. Over pavement holes the Sky's suspension lets the body down with softer landings. The refinement is turned up a notch over the Solstice, and it's noticeable. A more Stay-Puft ride results from a longer suspension travel and shorter jounce bumpers. The exhaust is slightly quieter, the top insulated with another layer of acoustic material. Taken together these options cost $3355 on the Solstice, which also doesn't have the Sky's fancy swabs of "piano black" interior trim to spruce up what is otherwise a concerto in hard plastic. The extra nip gets you air conditioning, ABS, cruise, power everything (except the top, which is manual in all Kappas), keyless entry, floor mats, an alarm, and OnStar for a year. Saturn intends the Sky to rise above the Solstice (don't worry, the next cars, the Galileo and the Kepler, will explain everything), in that the Sky's base price of $23,690 is $3200 higher than the stripper Solstice's. If the Solstice strikes you as too unorthodox, too unembellished and original to be a GM design, the Sky is happy to restore your sense of normality. Why couldn't it have been neatly embossed on the bumper? The lonely "Sky" badge adrift on the rump looks like an afterthought. The headlights and the taillights are busied with proliferating lenses - the Sky has projector-beam headlamps, the Solstice doesn't - and chrome spears. Extra design trinkets include forward-canted side vents, faux hood vents, multiple grille openings with dashes of chrome, and a rear undertray with incorporated backup light. The Sky takes up where the Solstice's clean, orbicular shape leaves off. ![]() It is the Sky that will sell in Europe as the Opel GT, having been styled in GM's Coventry, England, studios by Simon Cox, the chief artiste behind Cadillac's 2001 Cien show car. The Sky, assembled alongside the Solstice in Wilmington, Delaware, is 3.9 inches longer than the Pontiac but otherwise virtually identical dimensionally. First it sired the Pontiac Solstice roadster (December 2005), and now it gives life to a Saturn cub-Vette. The Kappa is now experiencing cell mitosis. GM product czar Bob Lutz smote the earth and up sprang the pipsqueak Kappa platform, a fascinating potpourri of hydroformed steel tubes and stampings, aluminum control arms, and GM-parts-bin bits. Saturn never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things goin' so right.Īt least, that's the giddy feeling people get when first gazing at the Saturn Sky. ![]() Saturn, the official transportation of coupon-clipping pensioners and unemployed psych majors, will become a distribution network for urbane Opels from the Continent. The dealers moved 213,657 Saturns in 2005 against competitors with better reputations and better cars with better resale values.Īnd now GM is taking a renewed interest in its giant ball of gas. Power and Associates dealer-satisfaction surveys, where Saturn consistently rates with Toyota, Honda, and even Lexus - didn't give up. Although GM appeared to give up on Saturn, the division's dealers - who are generally liked by customers, or at least those filling out J.D. Here comes the 2007 Saturn Sky, and with it, Saturn's long-foretold revival goes back onto the front burner. The revolutionary notions that were espoused in the glowing Hal Riney ads - a separate company within GM of eager young minds, the teaming of disputatious labor and management, the one-price dealers - wound up feeling mostly like missed opportunities. The subsequent Vue and Ion have only smoldered, and the division's engineering and marketing bureaus, once independent, have been fully absorbed into the monolithic mother ship. A decade slipped away before Saturn produced a second product line, the lackluster L-series. ![]() The "different kind of company with a different kind of car" that General Motors launched in 1990 with a $3 billion shower of cash and a sickly sweet marketing campaign soon became the same old company selling last year's car. In other words, the Figure is the blank canvas you ‘paint’ all your plots on. You can have multiple independent figures and Figures can contain multiple Subplots It is the overall window/page that everything is drawn on. Matplotlib Figure Sizeįirst off, what is the Figure? To quote the AnatomyOfMatplotlib: You can either change the size of the entire Figure or the size of the Subplots themselves. ![]() You have total control over the size of subplots in matplotlib. To change the height of a subplot in matplotlib, see the next section. plt.subplot(2, 2, 1)Īdd an overall title to a subplot in matplotlib with the plt.suptitle() function (it stands for ‘super title’). You can add a title to each subplot with the plt.title() function. Now, let’s look at how to add more info to our subplots in matplotib. It’s an easy way to make your plots look great.Ĭheck out the docs more information and arguments that tight_layout in matplotlib accepts. I use plt.tight_layout() in every single plot (without colobars or legends) and I recommend you do as well. Now there is less space between the plots but everything is still readable. It accepts a float in the range and is a fraction of the font size. You can adjust this with the pad keyword. Now there is plenty of space between the plots. Let’s see the most basic example without any labels or titles. Also, note that it does not work too well with legends or colorbars – you’ll see how to work with them later. It’s not perfect but often does a really good job.
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