Scientific Narrative
Ran by Michelle Choo
Recent posts
- Why Are We (A)symmetrical?
- Why Were the Elric Brothers Unable to Bring Back Their Mom?
- The Social Vulnerability Index: Quantitative Insights for Public Health Resources Allocation
- Can Consciousness Be Defined Quantitatively? Investigation of Neural Correlates of Consciousness
- Explain the 2025 Nobel Prize Works in Simple Words!
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We often associate symmetry as a form of beauty, its stable, predictable, and balanced nature having been a quality of wonder and awe. From the outside, most animals, even plants seemed to show some sort of symmetry in our natural forms. In this article, I investigate symmetry in nature with my friends Reya Satam and…
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Hiromu Arakawa points out the limitations to the reductionist, purely technical approach to defining life and its meanings. There’s much overlooked and missed when we fixate on the numbers, components, and ingredients.
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How Should We Prioritize Public Health Resources? Bioinformatics and Tools to Aid Public Health Resource Allocation
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What is the Neural Correlates of Consciousness? What is the “hard problem” of consciousness? How can we scientifically define and research what the state of consciousness is and means?
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Easy-to-follow breakdowns of the 2025 Physics, Physiology/Medicine, and Chemistry Nobel Prizes, even if you don’t know science.
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With the recent release of GPT-5, I’m amazed by the incredibly rapid development of generative AI in just the past couple of years. I do think, in many aspects, there are countless flaws and problems in these systems and that human intervention and verification are crucial for all kinds of work as of now. I…
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At Barnes and Nobles, I found an eye-catching beauty of a book, titled Poison: The History of Potions, Powders, and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard. If you know me, you’d know that I’m currently obsessed with an anime series called The Apothecary Diaries, a mystery romance about the 17-year-old apothecary Maomao, who goes around solving…
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Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University I visited the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University this afternoon. Among the collections of artworks from all across the world, I lingered in the circular room of Asian pottery and ceramics in the warmly lit first-floor gallery. How they ended up across the ocean in San Francisco, CA…
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