Last week, as I walked through Downtown Santa Monica, a flashy storefront on the side of the street caught my eye. The sign in front read “3DAR Art Museum”. My eyes widened at the beautiful graphics displayed in front of the building: huge dinosaurs looming over museum-goers, magical worlds seemed to be unfolding just beyond those swinging doors. But, as I began to talk with … [Read more...] about An Exploration of XR in Museums
Archives for March 2022
A Poetic Justice System: Changing the Stigma of Incarcerated Individuals
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it? - Kendrick Lamar, Poetic Justice Like a flower, in order to grow and flourish, a child needs to be nurtured. Sadly, not every child is raised under conditions that foster proper development. Some grow up in poverty, others in the midst of violence, and oftentimes because of their vulnerability, a … [Read more...] about A Poetic Justice System: Changing the Stigma of Incarcerated Individuals
“It is Not Necessary to Accept Everything as True, One Must Only Accept it as Necessary:” A Treatise on the State and Ideology
In his essay, Politics as a Vocation, German economist and sociologist, Max Weber, asserts that the State is the ultimate authority of a society. Unlike other forms of authority, there is a singularity to the State. What makes the State unique, according to Weber, is its monopoly of legitimate violence, how it is the only entity that possesses the power to use violence … [Read more...] about “It is Not Necessary to Accept Everything as True, One Must Only Accept it as Necessary:” A Treatise on the State and Ideology
Food Insecurity and San Francisco-Marin Food Bank as an Agent of Change
With globalization acting as an evolving force for a long period of time now, the number of global challenges that we must readily fight to overcome have increased and our task of maintaining a sustainable and viable future for our posterity has only gotten harder. While solutions on the global scale remain imperative for the eventual cessation of such plights, we must start … [Read more...] about Food Insecurity and San Francisco-Marin Food Bank as an Agent of Change
Unlocking the Secrets of Fluid Mechanics: Oil Film Flow Visualization and More
Fluid mechanics has been notoriously difficult to understand. This is primarily because the fundamental equations that describe fluid flow, the Navier-Stokes equations, can be nearly impossible to solve. In the year 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute offered $1 million to the first person who could prove the existence of well-behaved solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations … [Read more...] about Unlocking the Secrets of Fluid Mechanics: Oil Film Flow Visualization and More