Tech’s Energy Conference
It’s easy to get caught up in the bubble of your classes and peers while at Georgia Tech, as everyone in your major struggles together through the same difficult courses. Quickly, you can forget that the world isn’t made up…
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The Lab 1: Hard at Work
The majority of science majors, at least the ones that I know, work in a lab as an undergraduate researcher at some point during their college experience. Those of us that have, know very well the amazing, fun time that…
Serial Sci-Fi: Awakening by Linda Harley, Chapter 1
Check back every Friday for another chapter of Awakening, Nuelda Book 1, by Linda Harley. Learn more about Linda at her website www.rosebuz.com Can’t wait for the next installment? Download the whole book right now at AWAKENING Nuelda…
Grad School Confidential: Danger Zone
I am sitting. More specifically, I am waiting. Waiting on the box in front of me, a box that reminds me of my grandmother’s post-war era microwave on account of its single all-purpose knob, with the only exception being the…
Hey Kids: Brush your teeth, stay in school… and read the citations!
A co-worker sent this out to our research group in a rare moment of light-heartedness in the otherwise all-work-no-play world of physical chemistry research. His take was that we, as disseminators of scientific research, must be careful not to mislead…
Earth Day Festival Turns A Gray Day Green
In 1970, 100,000 people gathered in Washington DC to protest the Vietnam War. The deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin that year had fatally deglamorized the hippie lifestyle. Smog-darkened skies were accepted as a byproduct of prosperity. Environmental concerns…
Check it out!: SciShow
The concept of a series of YouTube videos specifically designed to teach science is one that may scare the casual viral video watcher away. Luckily for Hank Green, one half of the vlogbrothers and creator of SciShow, YouTube is not…
Let’s Get Physical – a pumpin’ playlist to get you moving
Picture a typical 1985 aerobic dancersize class at the local YMCA. Bright spandex, side pony-tails, colored leg warmers, metallic leotards. Lots of makeup, minimal sweat and sex appeal were the 80’s requirements for a good work out. Gym culture has…