Mar 15Seafood Not Caught From the Sea: An Intro To Cell-Based Fish 🐟Adding C-food to your cart! After watching the documentary Seaspiracy, my family stopped eating seafood. So what do you call someone who eats land meat, but not seafood? The opposite of a pescetarian? I guess I knew that overfishing was happening and that it was bad. …Cellular Agriculture10 min readCellular Agriculture10 min read
Jun 28, 2022Bill Gates on How to Avoid A Climate DisasterHow we can get from 51 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions to… zero. Every year, the world emits on average 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Bill Gates, in his 2021 book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, confronts this fact. At this rate, we are…Climate Change13 min readClimate Change13 min read
Jul 28, 2021How I Overcame My Fear of the Ocean“Can we pleassse go to the pool?” Whenever my family took a day trip to the beach, I would ask this question. Ever since I was little, I was not naturally drawn to the ocean. I always preferred pools, since every time I tried to play in the ocean I…Personal Growth5 min readPersonal Growth5 min read
Apr 19, 2021Want AI-Powered Muscles? Introducing: TonalIs the future of exercise in the hands of technology? Yes, you heard that right. Today, you can invest in an at-home fitness screen that sits on your living room wall that will be your new personal trainer for weightlifting. Introducing: Tonal Tonal has revolutionized muscle building through their patented digital weight…Tonal3 min readTonal3 min read
Mar 29, 2021Sapiens: The Quest Towards TruthA book that will change your worldview and thought process. “What is reality?” This is the question that guides Yuval Noah Harari‘s book Sapiens — one that fundamentally shifted the way I view the world and understand history. This is one of those books you want to buy in hardcover…Sapiens14 min readSapiens14 min read
Published inEncode Justice·Mar 16, 2021How Will AI Acknowledge Our Differences in Healthcare?The consequences and causes of unforeseen AI bias in healthcare. A few weeks ago for a hackathon, my team was looking into heart attacks for our heart attack detection wearable. Halfway through our research, we learned that women and men can actually experience different heart attack symptoms, which often go…Ai Bias5 min readAi Bias5 min read
Published instudents x students·Mar 10, 2021A Homemade Lockbox to Protect Your Homemade CookiesHow to make an RFID-based lockbox Now that I’ve made a lie detector test to catch my brother when he eats the last cookie, I decided to take it a step further. What else are you going to do when you have a growing teen brother that eats like this?Iot Projects5 min readIot Projects5 min read
Published inThe Startup·Feb 28, 2021“Alexa, STOP!” — Are Robotic Personal Assistants Making Us Rude?Social Etiquette in the Age of AI Personal Assistants A few years ago, my 6-year-old cousin came over to our house for Thanksgiving. We’d just gotten an Amazon Alexa, my parents’ new favorite toy. And guess what the first thing my cousin said to Alexa when he first met it? …Robotics4 min readRobotics4 min read
Published inAge of Awareness·Feb 25, 2021What I Wish I’d KnownA guide to the college process The hardest part of the college process is about knowing yourself and your desires. Then, it’s boiling that down to one sentence. ___ is who I am. ___ is why we are a perfect match. Your application is essentially an argument for why they…College26 min readCollege26 min read
Published instudents x students·Jan 31, 2021Can You Really Keep A Secret? Let’s Test It Out!Making a lie detector from scratch “Did you eat the last cookie?” “No…” It seems that lie detectors come in handy when your sibling was the one who had the last cookie. So let’s make one, shall we? 😜 How Lie Detectors Work I’m sure you’re familiar with the polygraph lie…IoT3 min readIoT3 min read
