#Toughness

[arabdoll]

“Mental toughness is knowing life is unfair and still playing to win.”

Marcus Aurelius

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New polymer design breaks the tradeoff between toughness and recyclability

Plastics underpin much of modern life—areas like medicine, technology, and food safety would be unrecognizable without plastics and their useful properties. However, the toughness of plastics, which is often desirable, also makes them a dangerous pollutant and difficult to recycle. The solution to this serious and growing problem is making plastics easier to recycle. In a study published in Chemical Science, researchers at Osaka University have found a way to make tough, high-performance polymers, the main component of plastics, that can be broken down easily and precisely into their component parts and recycled into materials that are like new. The main component of plastics are molecules called polymers, which are long chains of small repeating units called monomers. Current physical recycling simply reuses the polymers without breaking them down, and the recycled plastic is usually worse than the original.

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[mindblowingscience]

Scientists have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi). Not only is the metal extremely ductile—which, in materials science, means highly malleable—and impressively strong (meaning it resists permanent deformation), its strength and ductility improve as it gets colder. This runs counter to most other materials in existence.

The team, led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, published a study describing their record-breaking findings in Science.

"When you design structural materials, you want them to be strong but also ductile and resistant to fracture," said project co-lead Easo George, the Governor's Chair for Advanced Alloy Theory and Development at ORNL and the University of Tennessee. "Typically, it's a compromise between these properties. But this material is both, and instead of becoming brittle at low temperatures, it gets tougher."

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[blindedbyadream]

This page is to keep a video/photo of myself, my thoughts, me when I’m alone. And authentically

K. gray

Fear eats the soul.

Enjoy and hopefully people will happen. To see this fly by in their feeds.

-K

[simpleman193]

[tonyburgessblog]

The Strongest Steel From A Dumpster Fire

I found this on the Facebook and it is so very true. We all have dumpster fire days. Those are the times that show us the metal we are made of. Fire burns but it also purifies and strengthens things. What do you think of the message of this patch?

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

Toughness vs Strength vol. 1

- IH (Intelligent Hoodlum)

[postersbykeith]

[jessicalprice]

unbrutally honest

(Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska)

I overheard someone say, today, “Well, he prides himself on being brutally honest.”

The thing about that is no one who fits that description actually gives a shit about the “honest” half. They’re there for the brutality. They’re there for the chance to be cruel and feel morally superior about it. They don’t care about honestly anymore than a witchfinder cared about the safety of the community.

And you can tell, because they’re almost never brutally honest about themselves. They might tell you you’re never going to be loved because you’re annoying, but they’ll never say “but to be honest, part of the reason I wanted to say that to you is because I’m jealous of how successful you are at your job, how confident you are that people listen to you, and that’s really what I find most annoying.”

The truth can sometimes be brutal. And sometimes, there’s no way to give it to someone without hurting them. It’s a rare situation, for example, where telling someone you want to break up with them isn’t going to hurt. But you can always try to minimize the hurt. You can always strive to be kindly honest.

But that made me start thinking about toughness. I have a mother who sometimes engaged in cruel teasing to try to “toughen me up” when I was a little kid. And I’ve gone through some fairly horrific things in my life and survived them and now a lot of my friends tell me I’m tough.

The thing is, tough is not a virtue. 

It doesn’t make you morally superior. It doesn’t make you more mature. It’s just an adaptation that sometimes, tragically, you have to learn. Toughness can fuck you up--it can get in the way of connection, it can mean you don’t actually listen to people, it can inure you to others’ pain. But sometimes, it’s how you get through something. 

The job of people who love you is not to make you “tough.”

Their job is to help you become resilient. Not to ensure you don’t feel it when others hurt you, but to ensure you heal quickly from it, that it doesn’t damage you. 

Trying to “toughen someone up” by being cruel to them is trying to give them a thick skin by covering them in scar tissue.

The thing is, some things are still going to get through it. But when you’re covered in scar tissue, sometimes they can’t get back out.

And it’s hard to experience tenderness of the good kind with others when you’re not, you know, tender. 

And the thing is, it should hurt when someone is cruel to you, or even when they hurt you without meaning to. That pain is information: it’s a warning signal. It might mean that something is wrong with this relationship. It might be the first realization you have that they touched on something that is deeply important to you. It might tell you something about the parts of your identity that are important to you, and how you want to be understood by those around you.

We’re biologically hardwired to care about what other people think about us because we are social creatures. Being in community with others is a big part of how humans survive. Things that threaten bonds with other people, even in a minor way, are information we are instinctually primed to pay attention to.

What the people who love you should be doing isn’t trying to make you feel less. They should be helping you learn how to set appropriate boundaries (one of the most important things an adult can do for a child, I think, is to say “you don’t get to talk to her that way” when someone is cruel or belittling, and hell, sometimes it’s an important thing you can do for another adult).

What they should be doing is loving you enough that you know what healthy love feels like and know how to recognize it in other relationships, so that when someone says something that hurts you, either you love yourself enough to know it’s not true--which is not the same as it not hurting, it’s normal to be stung when someone says something cruel--or if it might be true, to be able to reflect on that without it becoming an obsession or a source of continual anxiety. What they should be doing is providing you enough love that you have safe people around whom to unpack something you’re worried might be true.

Being a mature, healthy human isn’t about being impermeable. It’s about being self-healing. 

Anyway, shabbat shalom or happy and restorative weekend.

[maniacaldeity]

slowly accepting myself hihi

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Uncrackable: Scorpions and sponges inspire sustainable design

Humans are by no means alone in the search for more sustainable materials. Nature, too, has been "working" on the problem of sustainability, and it's been at it for a great deal longer. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science show how design tricks employed by ancient creatures such as scorpions and sponges can help optimize the resilience of human-made materials, ultimately advancing sustainable design. "In the natural world, materials have evolved over millions of years, in environments that are often defined by limited resources and harsh conditions," says Prof. Daniel Wagner of Weizmann's Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Department, who has been studying the mechanical aspects of natural materials for several decades. "Our point of departure was an intuition that biological structures around us—trees, plants, bones, skeletons of various organisms—developed in a way that is, by definition, sustainable."

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[simpleman193]

[bettydice]

writing dialogue for Astarion in like a normal text editor is very difficult actually because it feels like all his dialogue should be created with WordArt

[theartofmadeline]

yeah i'm wlw (wench loving wench)

[marisasonoftom-blog]

[echoesofphilip]

Sometimes, it’s the tough times that define us, not the happy moments.