In January 2021, I interviewed Dr. Carolyn S. Gordon, a famed mathematician and Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth University. In this post, I present an essay I wrote on her post the interview. Her love for mathematics and experiences as women in STEM were incredibly inspiring!

A microwave oven is made of metal itself – look at its inside walls to catch a clear glimpse of the metal! Why can’t we put metal in the microwave, then?

How many friends can we handle? We intrinsically know that we can't please or catch up with everybody, but what does science say? How many close friends are we actually supposed to have?

“Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience, and experiment.” -Rosalind Franklin

Have you ever been curious as to how erasers work, so as to allow you to magically wipe out all your pencil marks? I’d take that back though, for its not magic, but merely an intelligent use of scientific principles like friction.

What do the changes (positive and negative) brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic mean for the environment? While there is a presently widespread notion that nature is healing, will this be sustained in the post-COVID-19 world?

In this COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of testing for viral infections has been emphasized more than ever before. However, have you wondered about how these viral tests actually work?

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, food production accounts for 14.5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. If everyone in the United States were to give up meat and dairy, the country’s carbon emissions would reduce by 70%.

Did you know that the first programmer ever was a woman in the 19th century? Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, wrote the first algorithm to be carried out by the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer proposed by Charles Babbage.

Glue stuck things together, but never stuck to its own bottle – why is that so? While that is a question that has confounded many, the short answer lies in the “driving force of all nature” – water.

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Through the Curiosity Series, I aim to explore, investigate, and explain everyday questions (or “curiosities,” as I like to call them) from a scientific lens.

What are the biological, economical, and ethical challenges of space colonization?