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  • covid,  Journal,  videos

    Quarantine World

    / June 22, 2020 / No Comments

    Mid May. The world has shutdown. We’re locked in our pods. Got a text from my friend, singer Danielle Reich, about doing a remote duet. We settled on the…

  • Mathematics

    Green’s Functions Illustrated

    / January 15, 2020 / No Comments

    There's no shame in admitting this: Green's functions can be a tad bit confusing. The purpose of this post is to provide an overview that will hopefully help you…

  • Mathematics

    Harmonic Functions: Why They’re Nifty

    / January 2, 2020 / No Comments

    Harmonic functions arise in countless engineering and physics applications. Here's an overview of these mathematical marvels.

  • words

    Crossedwords

    / May 19, 2019 / No Comments

    Abseil, Acacia, Adz, Aegis, Aga, Ague, Alai, Alb, Aleph, Anodyne, Arcadia, Arete, Ashlar, Aspe, Attar... To name a few

  • Featured,  in detail,  photos,  travel,  world

    A week in Sayulita 

    / December 9, 2018 / No Comments

    A week-long trip to Sayulita, Mexico in pictures.

  • books,  Featured,  in detail,  Journal,  Tribute

    An Unearthed Journal Joins Social Media

    / May 6, 2017 / 1 Comment

    A lost journal discovered. The fates of books. The fate of fate.

  • Featured,  in detail,  Journal,  learning

    Brain Drains

    / January 4, 2017 / 2 Comments

    Learn, forget, learn, repeat

  • Journal,  learning

    Brain Gains

    / October 8, 2016 / No Comments

    A few years ago, I stumbled on a free online course from Yale University called The American Novel Since 1942, a self-paced, semester-long study of the so-called Great American…

  • in detail,  Journal,  photos,  travel

    Oregon

    / June 2, 2016 / No Comments

    My family travels into two rental cars across Oregon. What a state. The place is nice too.

  • 1972 MiniMoog
    Gear,  music-o-mat,  Synthesizers

    Resurrecting a Minimoog

    / May 29, 2016 / No Comments

    A celebration and extended riff on a classic Moog synthesizer. PS, I own one.

  • music-o-mat,  Synthesizers

    A Forgotten Gem: The Voyetra

    / May 13, 2016 / No Comments

    In 1982, Keyboard magazine began running ads for a new synthesizer called The Voyetra Eight. Was it too far ahead of its time?

  • Featured,  in detail,  Journal,  learning,  Organic Chemistry

    The Orgo Experience

    / May 10, 2016 / 1 Comment

    It's Wednesday, 5pm, and I'm nervously awaiting my grade in Organic Chemistry, the class I've been quietly suffering through since January. I've been getting anxious, speculative texts from classmates…

  • in detail,  Tribute

    On Losing a Pet

    / May 5, 2016 / 2 Comments

    One afternoon in March, our beautiful cat Target went outside and never returned.

  • biochem

    The Ten Steps of Glycolysis

    / August 20, 2015 / No Comments

    Glycolysis (glycol: “sugar”, lysis: “to split”) is the process by which a six carbon glucose molecule is broken down, or catabolized, into a pair of three carbon pyruvate molecules. Doing so releases energy…

  • biochem

    Protein Classifications

    / August 8, 2015 / No Comments

    Tertiary Structure: the arrangement of secondary structure (sheets, helices, and loops) within a single polypeptide. Quaternary Structure: arrangement of several polypeptides within a protein complex that performs a specific…

  • biochem

    Amino Acid Structure and Shape

    / August 8, 2015 / No Comments

    Notes from the edx/harvardX biochemistry class (2015)     The amino acid sequence is the protein’s primary structure. The chemical nature of the polypeptide and the constraints creates its…

  • biochem

    The Amino Acids

    / August 8, 2015 / No Comments

    Notes from the edx/harvardX biochemistry class (2015) A protein is a linear polymer, or polypeptide, of amino acids, each linked by a peptide bond. Proteins are responsible for the…

  • Mathematics

    Reversible Pairs

    / August 15, 2014 / No Comments

    The math of reversible numbers, e.g., 123 and 321; 40012 and 21004, etc.

  • books,  Journal,  music-o-mat,  review-o-matic

    Houston Rap, The Book

    / June 30, 2014 / No Comments

    On the Walker/Beste book, "Houston Rap"

  • books,  in detail,  learning

    Slow-Reading with Proust

    / June 30, 2014 / 1 Comment

    The Swann's Way experience. #literature #proust

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