Today’s blog post marks the beginning of a series called ‘Postcards from Science’ which features science conducted by UCSC researchers in other parts of the world. The series will explore not only the details of the research, but also why the location is ideal, and what kinds of surprises and challenges the scientists encountered. Join us as we simultaneously explore […]
Once, loneliness led to revelry and camaraderie: falling down stairs and sleeping in a heap. I’d wake up like a groggy beast of burden resigned to drop my shoulder into the harness one more day. Now I watch Faraday shock toads with magnets drawn over copper wires on the page, and I wonder endlessly how a rim of infinite parallelepipeds […]
As I write my genetics lab report while listening to Imagine Dragon’s Radioactive for perhaps the 88th time on the radio, I contemplate whether people can really be radioactive. Wikipedia tells me yes– we earthlings indeed radiate some gamma rays thanks to a miniscule amount of naturally present Potassium-40 in our bodies. Some of this we get from bananas. But […]
context for this post: http://youtu.be/ZB39jT0qq3Y Science is ruining my life. I came to this conclusion the same way I rationale all my life philosophies: partially drunk and alone in my bed, unable to sleep at three in the morning. Three a.m. is a majestic time because I’m not as inebriated as the hours prior and the sheer exhaustion makes for […]
Some of the products of the merging of the left brain and the right brain in a summer UCSC Science Illustration course with a graduate from the Science Illustration Certificate Program at California State University at Monterey Bay, Lucy Conklin – A somewhat artistic interpretation of science, one by which you force yourself to look close enough at the seemingly […]