personal stories, essays, and reflections about doing science or learning science.
Hear that music??? That, my friend, is the sound of classic vinyl… You know that round spinning thingy that plays music that your grandparents and/or parents used growing up? Well, good news – it’s not extinct! When it comes to…
Dr. Thaisa Storchi Bergmann is a Brazilian female astrophysicist whose work on LINER-type galaxies is shaping the way we currently look at space. My team, Hidden Figures, decided to do a youtube video about her life and her accomplishments as…
Humankind as a species is over 200,000 years old. We are travelers, storytellers, and connoisseurs of legends and tales. For thousands of years, mankind has entertained our children and fellow tribesmen with fables and stories of the unknown, the cryptic…
“What is the difference?” I asked the person across from me after they tasted the flat Coca Cola and the carbonated Coca-Cola. While it took them a while to get to their answers, they all followed the lines of “The…
I didn’t realize that birds were cool until I was a senior in high school (4 whole years ago). Just to be clear, this article is talking about the kind of bird that flies in the air, not the electric…
Famous Scientists Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) He proposed madness We revolve around the sun Woke before others Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Brilliance in design The Alternating Current Still lives on today Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) Having ALS Did not stop his…
Ever walk by an organic chemistry teaching lab and wonder why people were standing behind blowtorches looking frustrated? First week of my senior year, I actually walked into that classroom. In this class we learned a lot about organic and…
One month ago, my boyfriend and I went to Savannah for a visit. I’ve always heard there are a lot of nice little stores down pedestrian streets there. As a girl who has no resistance to delicate handicrafts, I couldn’t miss…