Today we made this really cool ferrofluid. A ferrofluid is a liquid that becomes strongly polarized in a magnetic field. The word itself is sort of explainable; ‘ferrum’ is latin for iron and that word is combined with ‘fluid’. We made this black liquid stuff by mixing some iron stuff with some ammonia stuff and […]
Monday was a really neat and eventful day. First the museum, then the LAPD plasma lab, and finally the book collection. First of all, I thought the art we viewed at the Fowler Museum mind-expanding. The exhibit consited of Aboriginal ‘Dream’ paintings from Papunya in Australia. These painting were recent, considering that most Aboriginal art […]
Harry Potter, wow, that is all I can say. I thought it was pretty bad actually, I am an avid Harry Potter fan, and it mis-represented the book pretty badly. The concepts in The Half- Blood Prince were intresting though. Some include the idea of apparition, or the the thought of going wherever you wanted […]
What a film, what a film! It was SO disappointing! But that’s not important. Instead, let us try to be OPEN-MINDED, and search for technology in the midst of a movie about magic and fantasy. Only though our fantasies can we hope to “imagine the impossible”. For example, let us think about the brooms. Witches […]
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince was not bad but not great. I never read the books so i guess thats why i was kinda lost and had some confusion, but i’d seen every movie. Though maby i was just expecting more or something different but threw out the movie there were random scenes to […]
Today I began my understanding of the artscience program. The motif for the day was magnification and microscopy. We saw multiple microscopy labs and met lots of people who worked with imaging and magnifying devices all day. Most of what I saw I had heard about before. We saw a normal light microscope and even […]
Hands on! Finally! My group had the best ferroliquid by far. It worked great and had large spikes with one magnet, but when we combined six or seven it was even better. I found the idea of making a liquid that can be pulled by a magnet interesing because it is so unlike any other […]
Today at the very beginning of the morning our group saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince, who turned out to be a teacher at the Hogwartz School of Magic, which involved huge hallways and magic potion rooms. Harry was successfully able to create this potion out of actual modesty, even though his book had […]
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 […]
On Friday, most of day revolved around our midterm topic proposals. My group consists of myself, Matthew, Nicholas, Mason, and Charlotte. We wanted our project to be socially relevant as well as involving the necessary nanotechnology and practical application of science and art. After considering a large amount of topic ideas, we decided upon our […]