Building balancing structures turned out to be more of a challenge than expected.
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.
Building balancing structures turned out to be more of a challenge than expected.
Building catapults takes nothing more than popsicle sticks and elastics and a bit of invention.
SO! As an introduction to molecular gastronomy at Saturday Science, we did both caviar and spaghetti, made out of JUICE.
May-Britt and Edvard Moser discovered grid cells, which help our brains map their surroundings. Now they have the Nobel.
A tsetse fly bites a girl. She becomes itchy, feverish, and her joints ache. Weeks later, she loses coordination and some sensation in her limbs. It becomes difficult to think, to sleep.
Whether it be Schwartz’s or Pete’s, smoked meat has a special place in the hearts of Montrealers.