Category Field Notes

science travel or individual research

Native Plants at the Georgia Tech EcoCommons

Introduction The effort to bring greenspace and restore natural ecology to the Georgia Tech campus can be seen in the EcoCommons, a park built near the Keneda building and the Center Street Apartments. One of the goals of the EcoCommons…

Behind the Baking: Leavening

Introduction Welcome to the second installment of my Baking Science series! This time, I’m putting a variety of leavening agents to the test to see how they perform based on taste, texture, and overall look. I will be baking three…

Math is Friend, Not Foe

Today I’d like to talk about everyone’s favorite, least-favorite subject in school: Math Math can seem very scary and complicated. And this feeling is very valid to have – math does get more complicated the more you learn. When faced…

Adventuring on Mi Teleférico

Traveling through the aerial space is how I moved across the city during my visit to La Paz, Bolivia, last summer. No, I do not have wings or flying powers. I did not rent a helicopter or any kind or…

POV: You are a Scientist Starting Research

Imagine you are sitting in your lab, racking your brain over what research project to start next. You’ve hit a metaphorical “researcher’s block” and can’t come up with anything. This might actually be you one day in your professional career,…

La Balada del Gringo Perdido

Este artículo fue escrito en el 2012 por el profesor Joe Mendelson, director de investigación en el zoológico de Atlanta e instructor en Georgia Tech. Lo he traducido lo mejor que pueda, pero siempre hay cosas subjetivas y rarezas de…

Two symbols, infinite meanings

What do you think the following means? 1010 One-thousand and ten, right? What if I told you that it meant four-thousand one-hundred and twelve? Or three-hundred and fifty? Or simply ten? The truth is that all of these answers are…