"Colonoscopies--even you if make them free, people aren't going to buy them very often." -Susan Doerr Gould at #TEDxUofM #InformTransform

Some more light bedtime reading: Chen et al., Discrete & Comput. Geom. 44, 253 (2010) bit.ly/H45RHT #TEDxUofM #InformTransform

Sharon Glotzer learned about van der Waals forces in kindergarden?! #TEDxUofM #InformTransform #NanotechnologyForEvilGeniuses

wondering if he can talk anyone into a lunchtime double IPA at Ashley's. #TEDxUofM #InformTransform

"These are not Feynman diagrams. I have no idea what they mean." -Jacob Bourjaily at #TEDxUofM #InformTransform

Some light bedtime reading for #TEDxUofM: Parke and Taylor, Phys. Rev. D 35, 313–325 (1987). bit.ly/GYpnLa #InformTransform

weeping inside for Rebecca Coulborn, Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso who contracted HIV while aiding an injured stranger. #TEDxUofM

"There is no shame in failing while attempting to achieve a worthy goal, the only shame is in not attempting" -Jim Bagian at #TEDxUofM

Jim Bagian is both an awesome person and an awesome public speaker. #TEDxUofM #InformTransform

Politics is almost always the problem. #TEDxUofM #InformTransform