It’s Discovery Channel’s 26th Shark Week! Of course everyone has to write something about sharks this week, so here’s my small contribution. Being Singaporean Chinese, the obvious shark topic then would be shark’s fin soup.
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Electrifying Wastewater: My first video for Bytesize Science!
Video: Watch Professor Bruce Logan from Pennsylvania State University explain how microbial fuel cells, a device that can produce electricity from wastewater, work.
Traveling for Bytesize Science: Animals, machines and a little bit of history
I’m back from a long week of travels filming for Bytesize Science. A colleague, Kirk Zamieroski, and I went up to Boston filming at MIT and the New England Aquarium, then traveled back to Washington DC through New York City and Princeton, New Jersey. If you haven’t yet, check out the video series online at BytesizeScience.com
Dear Readers,
I am alive! And I am appalled at myself for not having posted anything since 21st April. Here are some updates: I am on internship with the American Chemical Society in Washington DC producing videos for their online video series, Bytesize Science! And dear readers, I hope you’re all enjoying flip-flops and summertime.
Compost For Better Boston Soils
This graphic was produced as part of a large-scale multimedia project, Boston Agriculture, for my Online Journalism class with classmates Poncie Rutsch and Matthew Hardcastle. With two more classmates, we created the website, Boston Agriculture, covering the expansion of urban agriculture in Boston in spring 2013. This graphic is part of the Nuts and Bolts… Continue reading Compost For Better Boston Soils
Urban Hydro Farmers: The Story Of Boston Teens Growing Green
Audio Slideshow: Two Boston teenagers, Leslie Bellamy from West Roxbury Academy and Roshanna Clark from Urban Science Academy in West Roxbury, share their experiences growing and selling hydroponic vegetables as part of College Bound at Boston College.
Hotpot, a shared act of creation
I had a reservation for four at 7 pm on Saturday night. I had reminded the three friends joining me for dinner to be punctual, and we were all at the restaurant as the clock struck seven. Still, we had to wait fifteen minutes before we were finally seated in the crowded restaurant.
An interview with Dipul Patel
Another class assignment, this time a one-minute interview-style video of an expert explaining something that he/she is familiar with. My pick – Dipul Patel of ecoVent. Smartphones? Smart homes. from XiaoZhi Lim on Vimeo.
ecoVent for our silly apartments
Whenever it gets cold outside, my room’s heat just gets magically sucked out through my exterior wall and window. My Indian roommate has it even worse – she has two exterior walls and windows. These are times when we beg our American roommate, who has the interior room with the thermostat, to turn up the heat. Having lived through my first winter in Boston in a leaky apartment, I was very glad to find that someone was working on apartment heating efficiency: Dipul Patel of ecoVent.
Explainer for the question: Can the batteries in your laptop catch on fire?
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration grounded Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner fleet recently because of lithium-ion battery fire incidents. Similar lithium-ion batteries are found in many consumer electronic devices such as laptops, cameras and cellphones. Can the batteries in your laptop catch on fire?