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Flooded Seeds in the Arctic

I came across this article yesterday and couldn’t help but laugh at the irony that this vault was designed for the express purpose of being able to survive a terrible global calamity (such as nuclear war for example). Yet, it somehow isn’t equipped to handle the very real global…

Educational YouTube Channels

I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching what I call “educational channels” on topics ranging from science to geopolitics to philosophy. I started off with most of the “big names” like VSauce, CGPGrey, and CrashCourse, but over the years I’ve amassed quite a collection of…

Go West, Young Man

People often ask me why I decided to come all the way across the country to California for college. Of course there’s the obvious answers of being close to Silicon Valley and that UC Berkeley is one of the top schools in the nations. However, for me, there was something else, a sort of…

Seven Feelings

The adrenaline of doing something unexpected
The serenity of diving under the sea
The wonder of learning something new
The curiosity of trying to solve a problem
The camaraderie of sitting around a campfire
The awe of taking in a spectacular view
The relief of watching something you built actually work

Eagle Scout Court of Honor Speech

First of all, I would like to thank all of you for taking your time out of the day to come to my…

Bringing Two-Way Streets to Berkeley Southside

San Francisco’s Vision Zero Initiative to end road deaths in San Francisco by 2024 highlights the need for action in Berkeley to think similarly about ways in which fatalities, injuries, and collisions should be reduced. Two thousand collisions…

Icarus

Meet Icarus. That’s the name of my drone. Why you ask? Well my roommates and I each won our own drone this past weekend at CalHacks (post about…

A Group Story

I was sitting in my first EE16A discussion when as an icebreaker we had to write group stories. I was trying to come up with an idea, but was at a loss for words…

I looked around and saw that somehow my class had turned into a zoo. The students transformed into various animals…

A Modern Winter’s Tale

Curious to see what Shakespeare would sound like set in modern slang, I translated line 1–64 of The Winter’s Tale Act IV Scene IV into this “new vernacular.”

Here’s what I came up with:

Florizel: Damn shauty, you be lookin’ like ma trap…