07.15.09 UCLA – Today I’m going to dedicate this whole blog to speculation on ferrofluids. According to dictionary.com the definition of ferrofluids “is a liquid which becomes strongly polarized in the presence of a magnetic field”. And this was exactly what we did today, we built ferrofluids. Not on a grand scale bu on a […]
07.16.09 UCLA – Today is the last evening we will share with UCLA. I hope to return here later to continue learning once out of high school. The campus is one that is extremely welcoming. The proffesors are extremely intellegent and they all welcome student help and any question you might ever have. Overall this […]
07.14.09 UCLA – Harry Potter, a very highly regarded popular movie series, was premiering another movie again. And being at a nanotechnology camp we were asked to find ways and relations that us muggles (those who do not have magic capabilities) have with these wizards through innovative technology. One of the more interesting relations the […]
7-07-09 UCLA*- Nanobot technology can only be explored via the modern microscopes of today. We, today, were fortunate enough to learn about the three standard microscopes: the electron microscope, the light microscope, and the atomic force microscope. These tools are the necessities to ensuring a view of the nanobots which are at most a hundred […]
07.13.09 UCLA- Flashes emerged from the window of the large plasma device (LAPD). The surface of this machine is hot like an oven. Inside this giant monster lies machinery capable of reaching temperatures of 250 Million degrees Celsius. Now most people would wonder how in the world this machine is capable of reaching such high […]
07.10.09 UCLA – To elaborate on the ideas of today, some of the midterm ideas were really interesting and most were actually practical. But I’d personally like to speculate further then practical. A hundred years ago a touch screen telephone (one such as the iphone) would not have even been thought of. A hundred years […]
07.09.09 UCLA- Everything in this world deteriorates. However we try our best to preserve some of the great masterpieces for the children of tomorrow. Surprisingly, art is one of the harder things to keep preserved according to guest speaker Giacomo Chiari, chief scientist of the Getty Museum. It seems that its an everyday problem figuring […]
07.08.09 UCLA-Until the mid 1980’s the Vault wouldn’t be truly noted until a study conducted by Professor Leonard Rome who, at the time, was studying the birth and death of proteins. Even today this protein made structure, comprised of three major proteins and a small strand of RNA, remains to hold no known function. Today […]