Carbonation and Coca-Cola
“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…
Category Story Time
personal stories, essays, and reflections about doing science or learning science.
Bad @ss Birds
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…
Historical Haikus
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…
Scientific Glassblowing
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…
Uncanny Valley
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…
How Corals Changed My Life
I’m a fifth year undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying industrial and systems engineering, and I plan to attend graduate school this Fall–but not for anything related to industrial and systems engineering. I plan to pursue a PhD…