Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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Rating: 馃煣 Type: Non-Fiction A bit of a slog to get through to be completely honest, but also incredibly important. The book tells the story of Australia through the lens of union action. Turns out almost all the institutions I like were...
Biology was never not cool to be honest, but I stumbled upon another mind melting phenomenon. The Venus' flower basket Credit: Wikimedia Is a deep sea sponge that grows between 500m - 1km underwater (although it can be found as shallow...
Shoutout to Heals for sharing their own workflow in a Mastodon post for inspiring me. Problem Statement Here are two axioms, which were until recently, incompatible. I want all my notes to be digitized in plain text I enjoy writing in...
1 Blindsight, Transhumanism, and Surveillance Capitalism I can not stop thinking about Peter Watts novel Blindsight (2006). It keeps me up at night thinking about its implications and what it says about humanity. Let me tell you about...
Rating: 馃煩 Type: Non-Fiction this was a very accessible book on philosophy, i have previsoly struggled with a lot of "traditional" philosphy, e.g. netzsche and camus which who i've attempted to read several times and keep bouncing off....
The following is a paraphrased exerpt from Mark Rowland's book "The Happiness of Dogs". I haven't finished it yet, but even from chapter one I would reccomend it. Okay, so according to Camus, in order to understand life's meaning we...
As promised, I printed it in transparent PETG.... And it looked terrible. Somehow the internal support is more visible than the holes I was trying to show, which instead got clogged up. Oh well. I will stick with my Blue PLA one.
Here is a quick write up for method I threw together for getting my writing out of Obsidian and into my website. The problem statement: While Eleventy is capable of turning markdown into html, there are a handful of slight differences...
Something I have been dealing with during my PhD, is that it is really hard to describe the 3D geometry of a photonic crystal just using words. Having pictures helps, but doesn't always cut it. I was mulling over this problem after I was...
Just sharing another neat website out there. On Observing Time. The concept is simple, it is just a collection of live camera feeds from around the world. The creator Jon wrote an essay on the concept here
While "fashion" has never been a hobby of mine, for most of my life I have prided myself on having something of a "bold" personal style, preferring big, colorful, and interesting-shaped outfits over the boring and overdone fashion trends...
I've spent the past week throwing together a new setup in my lab. I can't talk about the end goal of this research just yet for IP reasons. (Cant spoil the surprise ;) ). For now I can show off some of my gear and what I am doing for...
Has anyone ever studied the crystal lattice structure of a box of popcorn? Relevant research questions include: Do the crystal defects introduced by Peanut M&Ms increase or reduce crystal strength? How do Peanut M&M defects compare with...
I found this topic from Jodie Ettenburg's Curious About Everything Newsletter, and considering the cool physics involved I had to re-share it here. Researchers at Northwestern University have just broke the record for the smallest...
NOTE: The following historic argument is more or less taken whole cloth from Yannis Varoufakis' "Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism". Go read the book if you want a better explanation. The conclusions drawn from the historical...