“The perfectly harmless conversation you had yesterday might come back to hurt you years from now. That’s why we don’t write down every spoken conversation and keep it forever. Encryption is just a way to give digital communications the same basic protections.”
Matt Green, Computer Science, on end-to-end encryption’s role in digital privacy in a post-Roe world.
““It’s about time. It’s fantastic. Now I can stop asking the guy at Chipotle to staple my burrito.”
5/18/22, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon, on the invention of “Tastee Tape,” an edible adhesive invented by a group of chemical and biomolecular engineering undergrads.
“So let’s stop arguing about the precise source of the pandemic, and start taking steps to prevent the next one.”
Steven Salzburg, Biomedical Engineering, talking about a Vanity Fair/Pro-Publica expose on the origins of SARS-CoV2.
“The act of taking a huge piece of metal and putting it up into the sky is going to be an enormous carbon footprint.”
Peter DeCarlo, Environmental Health and Engineering, on the carbon footprint of private jets used extensively by celebrities from Taylor Swift to Drake.