North and Clark » Science

This Man Will Fashion Your Brain Waves Into a Hat

Casey — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:03:06 +0000

Sean Montgomery, Doctor of Nueroscience, is fasinated by biofeedback (the body’s external manifestation of thought, feeling, and status).

Your body is constantly communicating with the outside world. Sean’s “Fashion Devices” take these communication (sweaty palms, heartbeats, and neural impulses) and makes a visual representation of them on hats, t-shirts, and bracelets.

To find out more about these fashion devices you can check out Sean’s website here.

Nanotech (Mini-Podcast)

shbh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:08:00 +0000

My other headline was:

A Research Tech on Nanotech; Minipodcast with Zach Feiger

This Mini-Podcast was inspired by frequent commenter Charles. His question (for biology Research Tech Zach Feiger) on Nanotechnology lead to the edited discussion which appears below.

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This is the second of two interviews with Zach Feiger the first is available here

Studying Cancer, Flourecent Cells and the Life of a Research Tech

shbh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:17:00 +0000

Zach’s job involves the tiny tiny proteins that move human cells. He stops by North and Clark to tell us about his work, and why its important to make proteins glow in the dark.

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“You shine this infrared light on the whole body and the (cancer cells) light up.”