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...make it work. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick. On this day (to help protect his patent, Grier won't say exactly when it was), they tried a $5 piece of plastic as a joke. "It should not have worked," Grier says. Yet it did - where earlier optical traps could capture a maximum of two substances, this cheap plastic one split the laser beam into 16 parts which, when properly harnessed, gave them the potential to trap 16 separate substances. It was the breakthrough they had been...
Music critics often joke that at the end of the world, all that will remain are cockroaches and Keith Richards. But if only one aged talent can sustain music through nuclear holocaust, the world would be safer in the wrinkled, but infallible, hands of Mr. Robert Zimmerman...
...photo shoot for the jacket of his soon-to-be-released novel, meets the stunning photographer Anna (Julia Roberts), and mutual attraction quickly turns into a brief moment of indiscretion. Ultimately rebuffed by Anna, who is aware of his relationship with Alice, Dan responds with an internet sex joke that is both cruel and hilarious...
...times the film plays on our modern fantasies of sexual debauchery—desires most of us would never disclose—to consistently amusing ends. Dan’s joke ultimately has unintended effects as Anna meets and begins to fall in love with Larry (Clive Owen), a dermatologist possessing—being euphemistic here—an avaricious sexual appetite...
...happen—how the group would spread or if it would.” Guren’s group went from 15 members to 193 in a matter of weeks. For Guren, the group wasn’t so much a political statement as a “joke for other students who were depressed about the election and were not sure what...