Oscillating reactions are interesting to me because they create concentric circles from two forms of information or chemicals. One reaction that comes to mind is the BZ Reaction or Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction. A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] Reposting old articles to this new section… In my mind, this reality is a design. And to understand design we must define it. The definition of Design means to intensify an already existing message. If reality is a design, reality must have a message. Design, all types of design, contain a set group…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: Tattwas – Sanskrit language of shapes and designs” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text] Tattwa are geometric images from India. they are symbols that can be used in mandala. One of the most traditional symbol sets and one considered to have innate power to effect realization is by using Tattwa. These simple geometric symbols can…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: CL – Researchers Discover How To Control Electron Spin Electrically” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text] ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2001) — Santa Barbara, Calif. — Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) report in the Dec. 6 issue of Nature the first demonstration of continuous electrical tunability of spin coherence in semiconductor…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: WQ: Thoughts and Everything Else” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text] Water Quality I recently started a physical sketchbook to keep notes in about this research interest/project and went through my project notes and copied down anything that mentioned water quality. One tidbit that stuck out was Marasu Emoto. His life’s work was focused on…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: Study: Photographic Sculptures” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text] I have been working on my water quality project, and have been thinking about how to turn the vector graphics I have made into something a bit more photographic as that is my determined medium. I’ve been doing a bit of a search on ‘photographic sculptures’ and…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: Water Quality Update” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text] Over the summer, I initiated a water quality project that would take data from water tests from bodies of water that were near me at the time. One aspect of my artwork is collecting and going out on walks and in the fields to collect items…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: Research Framework” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text] I have been reading up on experimental design for biologists and working on a reading repertoire to get caught up on some knowledge before entering this course. Experimental Design for Biologists by David J Glass was recommended to me by one of my scientific advisors. And I’m…
I recently bought a digital microscope to experiment with microscopy imaging. I am excited to see where this takes me. My two goals for this is to work out the image clarity using my mirrorless 20mp camera as well as ventures into fluorescent microscopy.
LEEDS, MA – Last weekend, I attended the mycological association’s microscopy workshop and learned how to create a slide and use a microscope. This is something I’ve been wanting to get into for awhile now, and now that I have moved and have my own space I can plan/save some money to buy a microscope….
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Inquiry: Solving E=MC2?” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:100%20light%20regular%3A100%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text]While thinking about the conversation I had lately about the manifest world being an interference and that spirals are expressions of intersections of light, I thought about Einsteins’ equation… and remembered that not too long ago I applied the golden mean, 1.61 to Einsteins’ E=MC2… I think I…
