My dad is a US patent examiner and he mainly works with companies like Honda, Toyota, and Mazda when they submit patents for things such as electro-hydraulic power steering. As a result, his vast knowledge of cars has rubbed off on me quite a bit since he often takes me along to different car shows […]
Day 5: Shapes and Plasma “Shape” is defined as the external form or appearance characteristic of someone or something. Undeniably, shape has an underlying theme throughout science as reoccurring structures can be found in the unlikeliest places. The spherical shape of the atom’s orbit to the solar system’s orbit, the universe is held together by […]
As we explored the motif of shape in both art and science in our morning lecture, the similarities between the two subjects grew even greater. Shape was discussed in the context of music, architecture, molecules, as well as art in the form of dance. A change in the shape of an atom, with the changing […]
We began today’s lecture with an intro to future technology. Being a fan of cars, the video from a car show a few years ago was very interesting to me. I was stunned that engineers, who work to design and create the most advanced cars, have such extraordinary ideas. Years ago, it would have seemed […]
The concept products and inventions that were showed to us during the morning presentation were amazing. The Nokia Morph phone was really cool because it completely revolved around nanotechnology and it gave me an idea for a possible product maybe something that I’ll just throw out there. I think it would be really cool if […]
It was so cute. Black in color and extremely smooth to the touch, we gazed in the adoration as it playfully traveled around the little blue plate. Our precious ferrofluid. We were proud. Today was essentially the very first time we got to “get our hands dirty”, this expression in our case […]
Today was a very hands-on day as we spent most of the afternoon working on fairly simple yet interesting lab projects. The first project involved the creation of ferrofluid. Essentially, the ferrofluid was a highly magnetized viscous, black liquid that was easily manipulated through the use of a small magnet (as pictured in the […]
July 10, 2009 There are 3.4 million cases of anemia in the United States with a rate of about 4,500 deaths per year. Anemia is a condition in which are not enough healthy red blood cells in the body, which can be detected when there is an insufficient level of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin […]
The Fowler muesum of art was very nice. It was a cool change of pace to what seems to be the intense science that we have been learning. Seeing the art of the Australian natives was amazing, the patterns pretty psychedelic and i was pretty inspired. The plasma lab was very crazy. The had this […]
Usually when I think of shapes, I think of geometry and of circles and triangles and squares and what not. I also think of curves, lines, hyperbolas and parabolas. I remember in Algebra 2 my teacher would make us to “Math Aerobics” in which our arms would mimic the shapes of different quadratic functions. Today’s […]