Whether they are printed in a tiny font on a medicine bottle label or rushed through at the end of an advertisement, side effects of medicines seem to not be given much attention. However, they do exist. Today in the lecture, Ron brought up an example with acetaminophen, an ingredient found in aspirin. A study […]
I often call Aspirin my miracle product. Although there are lots of dangerous side affects and risks when consuming it, it can be used externally as well. When dissolved in water to make a paste, it can be applied to wounds for temporary pain relief. By adding a few tablets to your shampoo, you’ve turned […]
Technology is rapidly being improved and each day innovations are made in order to ease our lives on earth. The new Japanese cars that can navigate more easily provide an interesting new way of travel. Seeing the innovative models made me feel more and more sure that the world will achieve ‘the impossible’ faster than […]
July 14, 2009 During the morning PowerPoint lecture, the Morph phone concept by Nokia was displayed. This was an example of ‘imagining the impossible’; although the idea seemed too futuristic to become true, scientists are working on it to make it a reality soon. The main idea behind the Morph concept phone is the use […]
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She emigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family and studied economic history in Canberra before training in Fine Art in Melbourne. In 2003, she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale with her sculpture […]
Today our lecture talked about shape and function. It turns out that the shape of an object is equally as important, if not more so, than the materials that make up the object. For example, graphite and diamonds are chemically identical, and the only thing that is different between the two is the how the […]
July 13, 2009 Today I went to the Basic Plasma Science Facility which performs frontier-level research of the plasma state of matter. It is a misconception that the space in between the Sun and the planets is a vacuum devoid of matter. However space is actually not empty, for the big, hot Sun constantly emits […]
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On Tuesday night – well, technically on Wednesday morning – our whole Sci/Art Nanotech group walked to Westwood to see the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We each paid our counselor nine dollars for a ticket and went around eleven o’clock at night to wait in line to get descent seats. […]
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