How a flame works

noreply@blogger.com (Justin) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:06:00 +0000

Ever wonder exactly how a flame works? Well, here’s an amazing explanatory film that’ll make it all clear:

This film is the winner of “The Flame Challenge” put on by Alan Alda. He wrote in the journal Science:

I’d like to try a playful experiment. Would you be willing to have a go at writing your own explanation of what a flame is—one that an 11-year-old would find intelligible, maybe even fun? The Center for Communicating Science is looking for new ways to light up people’s minds with science, and you might point the way. We’ll try out the entries on real 11-year-olds and see which work best… .

So here I am—I’m 11 years old and looking up at you with the wide eyes of curiosity. What is a flame? What’s going on in there? What will you tell me?

The result of this challenge is nothing short of awesome. We need more of this.

And out from nothing comes something?

noreply@blogger.com (Justin) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Hello world! It's me, Justin. Let me introduce myself in not-so many words which will let everyone who may happen upon this site form notions of who I am from deeply ingrained stereotypes.

I guess the name of my blog doesn't help those stereotypes, but shut up, rainbows are awesome!

So yeah, I am in fact gay, queer, homosexual, or whatever word you wanna use that isn't offensive. I'm also a scientist though--a physicist working on getting a PhD from the University of Maryland. I'm very strongly skeptical, a part of my scientific upbringing. I lived in Texas, have a rather conservative part of my family that is none too accepting but not the worst you've heard of, I'm sure (well, at least I tell myself that as I go to sleep at night). I'm an open book, and I will not be shy to post personal stories when I feel like it since my core philosophy is that nothing should ever be a secret.

So I realize that part of this will be talking into the aether, but I'm okay with that. I needed an outlet to post my random thoughts and feelings, so here I am.

So this is the third paragraph to being with 'so'. Yay. May the fun and mayhem of so-called 'blogging' begin.

-Justin

Quantum Observations

How a flame works

And out from nothing comes something?