Nate Lewis
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Assistant Professor |
| Introduction | I finally graduated after 24th grade! |
| Interests | audio books, reading, research, my wife, chasing our daughters, biking, salsa, bonsai, washing dishes, self aggrandizement, skateboarding, swimming, snow boarding, surfing, tennis, soccer, skiing, wake boarding, making lists of sports I loved as a teenager but haven't done seriously for years just so I can still sound young and cool |
| Favorite movies | Gandhi, Awakenings, Nicholas Nickelby, Amazing Grace, Finding Nemo, Life is Beautiful, Curious George, Pooh's Heffalump Movie |
| Favorite music | Mostly just piano stuff and cheesy love songs, Jim Brickman, Christopher O'Riley, David Tolk, Rob Gardner, Jon Schmidt, Maren Ord, Rosie Thomas, Beautiful South, the Weepies, Lindsay Aline, Kings of Convenience, Chvrches... |
| Favorite books | Developmental Biology by Gilbert, Systems Biology by Palsson, Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics by Strogatz, the Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell, Ender's Saga by Card, the Bible, The Book of Mormon |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Clay is a group of hydrous aluminium phyllosilicate minerals, that are typically less than 2 microns in diameter and rich in silicon and aluminium oxides and hydroxides which include variable amounts of structural water, formed by the chemical weathering of silicate-bearing rocks by carbonic acid or by hydrothermal activity.