Ahhh. So tired. We are currently watching Bladerunner. This is one hella of a long movie. argh argh im cold by the way. So what did we do today? Ohhh the morning lecture was so much fun. I learned quite a bit of information. What caught my attention was the genetically modified food. A lot […]
Lily thought of the idea of nano monuments. She researched famous monuments and statues as well as shapes/structures. She designed how the structure would look on the outside and the mock up photos to how the pieces would look in a museum, on a desk, ect. She also made the Powerpoint. Edward created the inner […]
It’s been a tiring two weeks, but I guess as a whole, it’s been well worth it. I’ve accomplished many things all at the same time–participating in this program has helped me knock down numerous birds with one stone. Bird bowling. In any case, it started with my being able to visit UCLA and live […]
Today started out with a lecture from Victoria Vesna. She talked about art and how it had influenced her life, taking her places all over the world to pursue different ideas. Some of her works seemed pretty revolutionary to me because I had never seen anything like them before in any museum that I had […]
Today, class started off with the last showing of “Look Around You.” We then had a guest speaker named Jim Gimzewski, who has become a well renowned scientist. Following this lecture, we were instructed to work in our project groups. The day was indisputably productive, allowing us to finalize and complete our animation and power […]
“Incredible,” I thought. Right when I stepped into the Anechoic Chamber, I was immediately able to tell the difference. Everything outside the chamber was muffled, and the door was still open. The walls were made with a type of foam, placed in certain angles so sound would be able to bounce and reflect off from […]
The day started off with a daily introduction. The topic for today was “Coming to Life.” Apparently, we live in what a lot of people call the Information Age. Materials have always been defined by their properties, and glass itself is actually considered a technology of its own time. Advances in materials have enabled us […]
In the daily introductions today, I found out that the whole concept of nanotechnology is not new at all. It has dated back all the way to Leonardo Da Vinci’s time, in which we would perform dissections on dead human bodies, which was not really done at his time. The formation of movies regarding nanotechnology […]
The day started off with a “Look Around You” video, which is a science fiction comedy. Later on in the day, we went downstairs in the CNSI building to go visit some labs, including our professor’s lab, Nano and Pico Characterization. We also stopped by electron microscopy and advanced optical/fluorescence imaging labs. In the fluorescence […]
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 […]