Hi, readers! You may have noticed that the last time SciSlug published a blog was about a year ago. This is because we’ve decided to end weekly blog posts to concentrate more on producing the magazine and re-vamping the website! Also, if you happened to read our latest issue for Spring 2018, you may have noticed that our URL is […]
Any good artist knows that in order to have a beautiful picture you must have the right medium to translate it properly. When painting an ocean you don’t want to use the same shade of blue, so you add variety of colors to represent shadows and highlights. The same concept applies to photography, except time and light are your shadows […]
Time is found, lost, given, spent. Together with space it can bend. Time is a fickle friend. In physics class we are told that time is relative: it ticks by slower or faster, depending on the motion of the object and the frame of reference. Sometimes we forget to apply that to our own human experience. It’s a lot for […]
Space (I believe in) — I’m tired of this world, everything’s fucked, and people are the worst. Okay, okay, I exaggerate, I’ll admit; But it seems to me, if it’s here with us Sooner or later, we’ll turn it to shit. Space though? We’ve telescopes to see, and minds so to wonder eternally; but not much else, as of our […]
“I can’t believe it’s just like all the movies,” I said for what had to be the third time that day. I had my feet up on the dashboard, munching on Hot Tamales as I watched the desert whiz by at 85 mph. It was the highest speed limit I’d ever seen, but then again there really wasn’t anything to […]
CULTURESHOCK – What a word. What a bombastic term. An utterance to strike fear in every exchange student’s heart. CULTURESHOCK! I experienced cultureshock the other day while buying some impressively large broccoli at Trader Joe’s. The cashier was enthusiastic. “Hey there. Would you like a bag?” “Yes please.” So far so good. The man pushes the broccoli across the scanner. […]
We spend much our lives chasing enough of something, to place into something else: words for our thesis, lines for our programs, lovers for our hearts and a long list of other trinkets for the pockets of our life which may or may not be representable as a finite number of Hilbert space products–but what about the spaces between our […]
The new Spring 2016 issue is out and about! Here is a link to the PDF if you have not been able to see it in person!
Hey Sci Slugs! The magazine will be out in 1 more day! For now, take a look at this amazing science fact. Air does not circulate around the earth in a straight pattern. Since the Earth rotates, air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The deflection causes curved paths and is called […]
Hi Sci Slugs! The magazine comes out in 2 days! Here’s another tid-bit of science to start off your week. There is one metric ton of air pressing down on us at all times. One metric ton is about the weight of a car. The combined weight of air molecules causes a pressure pressing down on your body of 10,000 kg […]