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Results from Electrical Plant Induction experiment
I said last year (less than 2 weeks ago) that I would do an experiment testing if the effects of electromagnetic plant growth induction depended on species. The results I hoped to get the next day with my camera setup, but many things caused the results to get delayed until now. Right after I posted…
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Starting the Effect of Electricity on Plants Part 2
A while ago, I experimented to test the effect of an electrical current on plant growth. It was an experiment with mixed results, which oddly used aluminum and copper as electrodes, and the results were inconsistent. But tomorrow I plan to redo the experiment to get conclusive results and explain many of the mysteries of…
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How is Sharesyllabus supposed to work?
The premise of Sharesyllabus.me is simple. Share and learn relevant information about classes based on their syllabus. But how do users interact with the content? How would new content arrive? And how would information about classes be presented? This post explains many of the nuances of sharesyllabus.me, which is now archived here. In any case,…
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Sharesyllabus.me’s Immaculate Conception
The idea of sharesyllabus.me first came to me in my sophomore year. College Success Club was doing so-so, so my club members and I were trying to figure out a way to claim significance in our school. We decided we were going to do so by fixing one of the biggest flaws in university course…
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Visualizing the human genome in comparison with other hominids and other animals.
In the year 2000, the Human Genome Project released its draft human genome. 1 year later, it released its finalized version. The draft version was around 83% finalized, and finalizing (sequencing the “gaps” in the genome) seems not important. So how can we tell that finalizing the human genome is not just about adding the…
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Causes of Ophelia’s Delirium: Dependent Personality Disorder
This essay was for my ENG-1BH (Critical Thinkin and Writing / AP English). The prompt was to make a psychoanalytical critique of Hamlet. I choose to assess the mental state of Ophelia using the DSM-5. This essay was my best work in the class, getting the highest score. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia sang, “You may…
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Disguise of Feminism: Rossetti’s Goblin Market, Schlaffy, and Serena Joy
This work was for my ENG-1BH Class (Critical Thinking and Writing). The assignment was to make a feminist criticism of Christina Rosetti’s Goblin Market. Elizabeth Browning once said, “A woman’s duty is to be a helpmeet to her husband, and to bear his children. But a woman has a right to her own person, and…
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Use of the second perspective in There There
This work was done for my ENG-1BH class (Critical Thinking and Writing / AP english). The prompt was to make a formalist criticism of Tommy Orange’s There There. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield once said in the novel There There, “One of the last things Mom said to me when we were over there [Alcatraz…
