Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It
Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer.
My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20