It’s always interesting to hear how people got into the field of Extended Reality. It’s not like being interested in medicine or journalism. It is inherently interdisciplinary, and because it is so often not offered in course curriculum for many schools, it tends to be something that people find themselves drawn to through an intense sense of curiosity. Last semester, I had the … [Read more...] about Samantha Gorman: Creator of The Under Presents
Archives for 2023
The Housing Crisis: Criminalization of the Homeless and its Duality with Incarceration
The multidimensional nature of homelessness extends beyond “selected episodes of rooflessness;” rather, it involves “deprivation across several different dimensions—physiological (lack of bodily comfort or warmth), emotional (lack of love or joy), territorial (lack of privacy), ontological (lack of rootedness in the world, anomie), and spiritual (lack of hope, lack of … [Read more...] about The Housing Crisis: Criminalization of the Homeless and its Duality with Incarceration
Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponents: A Tool to Discover Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows
Welcome back. I hope my readers are having a great third week of the semester. In this installment of “Introduction to Flight,” I am very excited to discuss finite-time Lyapunov exponents (FTLEs), which are powerful tools in the fluids research community. When we think of turbulence, we might imagine an infinitely jumbled mess of fluid moving erratically throughout space. This … [Read more...] about Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponents: A Tool to Discover Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows
ECT Therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has a lot of negative associations in the mind of the public. When most people think of ECT, they think of mental patients receiving this treatment without their consent in the 1950s (Scientific American). It would probably be terrifying to imagine a treatment involving electricity running through your head. Staff at mental hospitals used this … [Read more...] about ECT Therapy
The Continuum Hypothesis
Welcome back. I hope that all of my readers have had an excellent summer and a great start to the fall semester. Today, I wanted to gently continue our discussion of aerospace engineering by reviewing a core concept that underpins nearly every macroscopic fluid flow analysis. This concept is the continuum hypothesis, which states that a fluid can be treated as one smooth, … [Read more...] about The Continuum Hypothesis