My Fascination with the Animation Station
What I really love about the Animation Station is that it reminds me how technology and science often combine to create art.
The Weird and Wonderful Theremin
If you stand on the second floor of WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology, you may hear a strange, [...]
Sleepy Brain Equal Bad
I do know that I’ve personally experienced all of the other side effects. I’ve hallucinated horrifying faces staring at me during fits of insomnia, lost my temper over tiny and otherwise unimportant events, remembered events that never took place, said things that I knew I shouldn’t have, and experienced my thought processes slowing down the more tired I become.
Viruses in the Body
I spent all of last week lying in my dorm room with the lights off. While that kind of break [...]
Robots: The (Not-So) Distant Future
We’ve all seen movies with highly-advanced and terrifyingly deadly artificial life. Terminator, Blade Runner, the Matrix – we all know [...]
So, What Happens in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory?
If you were born in the 1970s or later, chances are you grew up watching either Willy Wonka and the [...]
Break Down or Study Break
While people all over the U.S. just had Thanksgiving, students may have been looking forward to it the most. The [...]
The Twitch, the Shift, and the Fidget: Why does our body insist on moving?
I cannot possibly recall all of the people who have turned to me and shouted, both playfully and angrily, to [...]
A Feat of Engineering
This August, the week before we left for school, a few friends and I took a day trip to Warren [...]
How to Handle the Cold
Humans generally do not handle the cold that well. There are, of course, a few noteable exceptions. The Mongols, who [...]