Field Notes
How To Prove That You Are Psychic
Throughout history, many people have claimed to be able to perform amazing feats that defy science and logic. Such claims continue today in many...
Mind the Tentacles: How Octopuses Outsmart Scientists (and Aquariums)
Mind the Tentacles: How Octopuses Outsmart Scientists (and Aquariums)
When you first think of an octopus, you’re probably picturing an animal with 8 tentacles floating...
Navigating Transition in Higher Education – An Analysis of Transfer Students at Tech
While often an overlooked and unrepresented population consisting of 1,252,418 students, or roughly 15% of the undergraduate student population at public 4-year institutions, transfer...
HackMITea: A Hackathon From the Eyes of a Physics Major
Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit a friend up north and experience my first ever hackathon, hosted by none other than MIT. Every...
Behind the Baking: Leavening
Introduction
Welcome to the second installment of my Baking Science series! This time, I'm putting a variety of leavening agents to the test to see...
Math is Friend, Not Foe
Today I’d like to talk about everyone’s favorite, least-favorite subject in school: Math
Math can seem very scary and complicated. And this feeling is very...
How I Applied To Grad School (and How You Can Too)!
Last year I thought that I was 100% certain about what I wanted to do when I graduated. My initial plan was to graduate...
Three Dog Star Night (Part 4)
Welcome back to our discussion on the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox! If you haven’t read part 1, part 2, and part 3...
Two symbols, infinite meanings
What do you think the following means?
1010
One-thousand and ten, right? What if I told you that it meant four-thousand one-hundred and twelve? Or three-hundred...
Three Dog Star Night (Part 3)
Welcome back to our discussion on the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox! If you haven’t read parts 1 and 2 already, it goes...