WHY IS SNOW BRIGHT?

It is winter at the home of The Procrastinating Scientist which means it is time to haul snow in the yard. It also means that it is time to get my sunglasses out because the snow is damn bright! Now, why exactly is that? This time around, we tackle this question with an infographic!

HYPERNOVAS: Even bigger than supernovas

Look to the night sky and amid the vastness of space, you will find candles that have burned bright for eons. In their light, we find stories that take us back to a time when the universe was younger and darker. But, father time catches up to all of us. As they near the end […]

CLIMATE CHANGE – PART 4 – WHAT CAN WE DO?

Now, in a much-belated part 4, let’s put it all together. A quick recap of what we have learned: Climate is long-term and refers to atmospheric behavior over long periods. Small climate changes, over a long period, can lead to major effects on global ecosystems. Our planet is warming up with new temperature records being […]

NO MORE PROCRASTINATION

Just kidding. Belated New Year Greetings to all my readers! A quick update! It took a while to relocate but I have my office up and running again. A new home and a new year deserves a fresh start to The Procrastinating Scientist. I have made some changes to my humble blog, as you may […]

I will be back soon! – Blog Update

For the last two months, your procrastinating scientist had to take a break. Yeah, I know, irony much? My time away was not to literally procrastinate rather to actually get some work done. What work? Well, a new full-time job as a science writer, an impending move to a new city, and a whole lot […]

Climate Change – Part 1 – The Basics

With the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) underway, I thought a refresher on climate change would be useful. This will be a four-part series, inspired by a post I had written several years back in The Pensive Reverie, my personal blog. The science behind climate change hasn’t changed too much (though my writing […]

Does the Great Filter spell doom for humanity?

Much like how we use a sieve to strain or refine liquids and dry ingredients, the Great Filter is a universal sieve with its primary ingredient being actual species, and in our case, humanity. The Great Filter is the response to a question posed by Nobel Laureate and physicist Enrico Fermi when he pondered about […]

My first GFX project at PBS Spacetime: Vacuum Decay and the End of the Universe

Recently, I was offered the opportunity to work with the team at PBS Spacetime, a Youtube Channel that explores all things crazy in astrophysics, and pretty much everything beyond our planet. Collaborating with the Spacetime team, I was responsible for Graphics Visualizations, in an awesome experience where we try to find means to illustrate and […]

My First Project at Watch Mojo’s Unveiled: What If We’re Living Inside A Black Hole?

Recently, I became a script writer for WatchMojo’s science channel Unveiled. My first project script had me address a topic in a field that I love: astrophysics. The question? What If We’re Living Inside A Black Hole? One of the more spectacular theories to come out of astrophysics involves the possibility that our universe exists […]

First Steps as a Science Writer

Following the theme of my last post in February, I have finally made some progress (Very small, but still counts!) in my aspirations to be a science writer. My ComSciCon-CanWest submission has finally been posted on their blog. The subject matter covers my own doctoral research in plasmonics: Mimicking photosynthesis in nature using metal nanoparticles. The […]