Piña and Pearls: Filipina Fashion
A brief exploration of traditional Filipina fashion, craftsmanship, and sustainability innovation.
Research
How space exploration influenced fashion and wearable tech
Hello stylish nerds and friends, let’s sit down and talk about fashion and technology! This is a fun post I wrote back in Feb’23 for my cosmology science communication assignment. The only rule was to ‘not bore the lecturer’ – challenge accepted! Whenever I watch or play space sci-fi media there is a noticeably similar
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The Rookie Researcher III: Touring the Cool Science Stuff
My university had an open day last weekend and we got to show our prospective physics students some pretty cool ‘science stuff’. Science outreach is vital to nurture people’s natural curiosity and for those who love science – we mustn’t keep it all in the lab! Science is for everyone. Even for my 80-year-old grandma.
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The Rookie Researcher II: Practising Resilience in the Lab
A continuation of my journey doing PURS (physics undergraduate research scholarship): previous post. This is also a love letter for my peers in the lab, my friends, and those starting out their lives. If there is one thing every scientist must be good at it would be good at processing frustration. Sometimes things don’t go
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The Rookie Researcher
Over the 8 weeks of summer, I will be researching the ‘blanching of varnish’ of fine art pieces. The paintings you see in galleries are basically visual expressions made with soft matter – the paint on the canvas and the varnish top layer. Varnish is the protective layer of paintings from dust and dirt, which