Exploring sound waves from instruments to telephones.
I’m a prairie kid who loves research. I have a Master’s in economics with a focus on public programs, labour and education. Long before that, I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor.
Besides my resume, you’ll find this page full of sewing projects, the odd published poem, and stories about Canadian science.
A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.
What does the leftover phosphorus in the soil looks like? Is it inorganic, bonded to other metals in forms plants can use, or is it mostly organic, which microbes must break down to plant-available forms? And what sources of phosphorus do plants actually rely on?
My boyfriend is thirty. He is also kind of my best friend's boyfriend. He and I kiss, but they talk.
Mimicking plant cells to build teeny-tiny reactors.
Using the world of dinosaurs to bring numbers to life with young learners.
A challenge to make a CD hovercraft results in engineering troubleshooting and a simple air pressure demo.