by Claire Brevik | Aug 18, 2013 | Generally Cool Stuff
For years, it was thought that the only organized and purely carbon substances that could exist were graphite and diamond. Within the last twenty years, the discovery of buckminsterfullerene molecules lead to the isolation and recognition of carbon nanotubes...
by Claire Brevik | Jun 5, 2013 | Generally Cool Stuff
At Innovation Works 10th AlphaLab Demo Day and University Preview, Lucky invitees were treated to a sneak peek at some of the technologies featured companies have been developing. CEOs made a case for why their product deserved attention at this informative...
by Claire Brevik | May 24, 2013 | Generally Cool Stuff
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) the Enterprise’s navigator, Lieutenant Chekov, suffered serious burns to his hands from a sparking console when V’Ger probed the ship. A spray gun spritzes his hand with regenerative material, and the skin is healed. The same...
by Claire Brevik | May 2, 2013 | Generally Cool Stuff
This is an excerpt of a version of a paper I wrote for a physics class. Who knew we’d ever be thanking the laws of probability or our respective intelligent designer of choice for William Shatner? Let’s face facts though- Star Trek: The Original Series...
