Astronomical seeing

The year was 2014. I was a senior in high school, already I had committed to go to Colorado Mesa University, I had a track scholarship and I was going to major in Geology, ultimately wanting to go into petroleum engineering. The only thing was, I didn’t want to. I did not want to go be a geologist, I wanted to travel, to see the world! As cliché as it may have been, I dropped out, I worked for a period of time and sent myself on a trip to Europe to “find myself”. Arriving back home after a few…

"Psychopathological persons". According to the national institute of mental health "Approximately 7 or 8 individuals out of 1,000 will have schizophrenia in their lifetime." Those who suffer from schizophrenia experience Hallucinations such as hearing and seeing things that are not there, Delusions such as the government controlling our thoughts through the consumption of tap water, and movement disorder repeating certain motions repetitively. As Chris Caps had described those side effects from…

I I have to say, I went for this one unprepared. I was going to Brazil for summer break and my mom wanted a mother/daughter bonding trip. Unfortunately, it was less than a week after my finals and I didn't have time to read a single guide, just some general stuff I found on the internet. And I'm usually the kind of person who buys 3 different guides, reads them all and plans every second of the trip. Not that I follow my own plans that often, but I do enjoy the planning and the security that…

Life in New Haven was fun with friends and family; I thrived in the loving environment. Weekends meant going for long drives through rural surroundings or running without a care on the beach. Then we relocated to India. I suddenly found myself in the midst of strangers; missed Ronald, Alicia and Zuhaan my pre-school friends. Moreover, the flies were annoying! Nevertheless, I made friends with Dhruva, Shikhar and Dennis, whom I met in the children’s park in our residential complex. Life was fun…

Constellation Dissipation: The Effects of Light Pollution Growing up in a small town in Western Kansas had few advantages. Everyone knew everyone else. There was a small dating pool, so girls would always fight over guys. Life seemed easy, but stressful. Whenever I was feeling stressed or upset, I would look to the stars for guidance. The vastness of the universe seemed at my fingertips, ready to answer any question or conundrum I might have. All I had to do was look up and wait for it…

and devoted himself to it passionately from 1815 until 1820, during which he had studied algebra and wrote a number of articles on functional theory. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and played a leading role in the founding of the Astronomical Society in 1820. However, his position as a liberal in a highly conservative era of England prevented him from obtaining a teaching position for quite some time. Meanwhile, his wife had given birth to 8 children in just over a 13-year…

of these creatures, without ever seeing them? How come some are big, and others are small? Why did some eat meat, and others eat plants? Why did dinosaurs disappear? There are three main theories that explain dinosaur’s extinction, and they each have crucial evidence to support them. These are the mysteries of the dinosaurs. The extraterrestrial theory, or the asteroid theory, was created by a team of scientists that sought out evidence and came to an astronomical conclusion. They discovered…

For 13 years, the scientists of LIGO—the most ambitious, and expensive, project in the history of the National Science Foundation—had been waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been twenty-five years and more than half a billion dollars in the making. It involves 900 scientists and engineers, including many whose entire careers have been spent designing, building, and preparing to analyze data streaming in to LIGO. Their goal: To confirm, once and for all,…

Throughout history, humans have always held a fascination with extraterrestrial life. Science fiction tales were written in the second and tenth centuries (Joy and “Satire or the First Science”). Crop circles were claimed to be found in medieval times (Radford). Searches for canals built by martians were carried out more than two hundred years ago (Simon). The fascination with alien life integrated itself into human culture and as it changes, the beliefs change as well. Science fiction allows…

1. The strongest empirically supportable claim that I can make for the significance of race/ethnicity in criminal justice proceedings is that there exists a “racial empathy gap.” Recent studies have shown that both blacks and whites hold an “empathy gap” towards blacks that can influence the punishments minorities receive in schools and within the United States criminal system. To begin, there must be an examination of what this “racial empathy gap” is. What multiple studies have shown is that…