This interview happened on a very cold and gloomy day, over a cup of tea at the University Medical College. It was a maze of a place, and very cool. Unfortunately, the interview was a bit short for various reasons, but Dr Smit brought in some really cool insights into the question of interdisciplinarity. Here …
Category: Science Babble
Interview #4 Dr. Ella Hendricks
I have always love art and museums, and I could easily spend hours in an art museum and still not get bored of it. One of the reasons I moved to Amsterdam was the Rijks museum and the Van Gogh, so when I saw that Dr. Hendricks worked at one of them for a while, …
Interview #3: Dr. Amade M’Charek
I remember, early in 2007, I discovered a TV Show called Bones and fell in love with the lead character who was a Forensic Anthropologist. Since then, I've always wanted to interact with one, and this project was an opportunity for me to talk to one. But, sadly enough, though a lot of profiles say …
Quantum Weirdness
Quantum Weirdness Or What the Hell is this Going On? We all know that Quantum Mechanics is weird; weird doesn’t begin to explain what it really is, but all we can say is weird. Even physicists agree that Quantum Mechanics is weird. It all starts with a simple thought experiment; just put a cat in …
Holding Back Gravity
(This is something I wrote a while back for my University) Take a look at the night-sky and what do you see? Stars, constellations, a moon, the occasional planet, maybe a shooting star, but everything else is dark. Theory and several observations suggest that the Milky Way, the galaxy in which our humble solar system lies, has millions …
Galactica 