today i learned (til)
The Science of Sharing Information: The A, B, Ts of Storytelling
And, the explosion of information across scientific and technical fields over the past few decades has created a world overflowing with data. Scientific publications,...
Genetic Engineering: Woolld you, or woolldn’t you?
Imagine a tiny mouse with long, golden-brown fur that looks like it belongs on a woolly mammoth! As of a couple months ago, you...
Vertigo: Living like you’re on a perpetual rollercoaster
From ages 6-10, my uncle took my cousin and I to Navy Pier every summer. It’s July, school is out, the sun is shining,...
The Pot That Keeps on Giving: Perpetual Stew
Image adapted from "Perpetual stew laughing" taken by Annie Rauwerda is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Would you eat stew from a pot that’s been cooking for...
The Flower Power Behind Gene Silencing
Have you heard the story about some scientists trying to turn purple petunias more purple, and instead the petunias threw a tantrum and turned...
Infectious Diseases, Immune System and Vaccines
Since ancient times the causes of severe infectious diseases in humans have been puzzling to people. Specifically, the recurrence of outbreaks, the severity of...
The Brachistochrone and Snell’s Law: A Surprising Connection
Brachistochrone - A word originating from Greece that means "shortest time." The brachistochrone problem is a well known problem in the world of physics...
Researching the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
This semester I took a course called Locomotion Neuromechanics. Like me, you might think that it would be a course where you would learn...
Too Hot to Handle
As my previous article mentioned, this will be focused on what my role in The Devil Wears Science and what my group had accomplished...
BTS: The Devil Wears Science
Whew! That was a rollercoaster of emotions. It has been a couple of weeks since our Atlanta Science Festival (ASF) event, The Devil Wears...