Gordon Waller

Gordon is pursuing his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and conducts research on lithium batteries. He likes cooking, textbooks, internet memes and the great outdoors. His viewpoint on science is that everything is more interesting when you understand how it works, also being able to impress (read annoy) your friends with your techno-lingo is a major perk.
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Berkeley grads grow mushrooms for cash – legally!

Imagine you are in your last semester at college. You’ve done well academically, studied business, and you have a job offer lined up....

Grad School Confidential: Danger Zone

I am sitting. More specifically, I am waiting. Waiting on the box in front of me, a box that reminds me of my grandmother's...

Let me check in the back: how 3D printing will revolutionize future commerce

  Allow me to transport your mind for a moment. The year is 1999, being an “internet company” is still a viable business model, and...

New Houston: We have a problem

  If you are a technology enthusiast, NASA observer or all around space geek, you don’t need me to point out the connection between two...
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Hey Kids: Brush your teeth, stay in school… and read the...

A co-worker sent this out to our research group in a rare moment of light-heartedness in the otherwise all-work-no-play world of physical chemistry research....
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The Pollinator Commeth!

It’s pollen season, and where I live in Atlanta Mother Nature has given everything with the misfortune to be outside a healthy dusting. Now...
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Water: Prankster of the Natural World Part 2

If you haven't read part 1 (why would you do that?), here is a review of the scenario we are considering in part 2:   Two...
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Water: prankster of the natural world part 1

If you've ever taken a life sciences course your teacher probably mentioned one of several properties that make water particularly interesting. Water is cohesive...
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Zinc has bigger game than you do

  Still struggling to pick out that one in a million Valentine’s Day gift? Worry no longer, because I have the perfect gift idea sure...
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Even though Kim Kardashian’s marriage didn’t last, her engagement ring will....

I have a joke for you:   How long does a two million dollar engagement ring buy you with everyone’s favorite (well, mine anyways) Kardashian sister?   As...