Ten Hundred Words of Science
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Inspired by xckd.
Facilitated by Theo Sanderson.
Compiled by Anne Jefferson and Chris Rowan.
Inspired by xckd.
Facilitated by Theo Sanderson.
Compiled by Anne Jefferson and Chris Rowan.
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“My work is about studying really small things. It turns out that if you take a big thing and make it small, it does something different than what you’d expect. We understand some parts of why this happens, but there is a lot left to learn. So what I do is build something made of lots of tiny things, and look at what they do together. I can make things that respond to light, or put out light, or respond to air! And I figure out what’s happening by putting power in and looking at how it comes out. So I could build something that turns light into power, or power into light, or that moves power around like a computer does, but works more like the brain than computers do. And all this comes from the fact that small things are very different from large things.” -
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