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I am Lara Nikaela Rubinos and I blog about my trips. I am a Philosophy Graduate . Feeling like a robot now .
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Hazy
There are times like these that I just want to sleep forever or wished I wasn’t born.
Created and recorded March 9, 2013
Graphene: The Miracle Material
Graphene is 200 time stronger than steel, harder than diamond, super flexible, and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity—and yet is only one atom thick. It’s a material made out of a single layer of pure carbon atoms, arranged in a honeycomb lattice connected by the strongest bonds known to science. Basically, graphene is just a super-thin sheet of graphite, the material found in pencils—so thin that a stack of three million sheets would be just 1 mm thick. Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discovered it in 2004, and later received a Nobel Prize for their work because graphene is an incredibly versatile material—comparable to the vast range of uses that plastic has—and can even be modified to take on different properties: researchers have successfully made it magnetic. Graphene’s amazing mechanical, electrical and optical properties mean that it could be used for vast range of applications, from stronger and lighter car and airplane parts, to super-tough textiles, to healthcare, to a replacement for silicon in nano-electronics—which could lead to faster, thinner and more flexible electronic devices. It may be some years before we see these applications fully realised because there are still obstacles to overcome, but there’s no doubt that graphene has incredible and unparalleled potential.
Fun fact: There is a poster about graphene in my physics teacher’s classroom, I sit on the exact opposite side of the classroom from it so I haven’t read it yet but it features a cat, so I’m going to go ahead and assume that you can use it to support cats.
YOU CAN. Geim and Novoselov calculated that a hammock made of one square metre of graphene could support a 4 kg cat—but it would only weigh as much as a single cat whisker, and it would be almost completely invisible.
Another fun fact: Geim won an Ig Nobel Prize for his work on magnetically levitatating frogs. He’s actually the first person to win both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel Prize!
Carabao Dreams
by: Lara Nikaela A. Rubinos
Many things begin to make more sense with age. Funny memories, some of them, suddenly became not funny anymore.
One funny memory I had was during my first grade. My teacher gave us a recitation activity about what we want to be when we grow up. She made us fill the blank at the end of the phrase “I wish I were”. Of course, everybody said their own desired professions, doctor, teacher, nurse. I was six years-old at that time and I said “I wish I were a lawyer”.
Then, it was my classmate’s turn. He stood up and said, with confidence and a smile on his face, “I wish I were a carabao!”And everyone, my classmates and I and our teacher, burst out laughing.
We thought he didn’t understand the instruction and we all laughed in his little idea. Come on! Who wants to be a carabao, right? Carabaos work hard under the sun and they only do what their owners tell them so.
Years passed and life got harder. I lie in my bed one night, sad and frustrated of the problems in life. I wish I would not worry too much. I wish there is a way not to feel the loneliness. I wish I were a carabao! Yes, one lonely night I dreamed of not being human at all. I dreamed I was a carabao tilling the earth, working hard in a humid day under the harsh yellow sun, and despite of these, not feeling anything. No sadness at all.
The Town of San Jose
camera: 28mm Vivitar T201
The Town of San Jose
camera: 28mm Vivitar T201
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