The soundtrack to my life over the last month has been Tycho’s outstanding new album, Simulcast - the instrumental companion to 2019’s Weather. In fact, I’ve been listening to this album so obsessively that it became incentive to resurrect this personal blog of mine.
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'Don't Bother Calling,' Moses Sumney
Photo courtesy of the iSchool.
How the iSchool explores youth tech use through phones, fanfiction and more
This article was originally published in The Daily UW on November 18, 2019. Read it here.
Information, technology, and people. Research at the UW’s Information School (iSchool) revolves around the relationship between these three variables — bringing an all-encompassing approach from a variety of fields around campus.
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The Cure for Colorblindness
This article was originally published in The Daily UW on March 14, 2019. Read it here.
To about 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women, the world doesn’t look quite the same as it does to others. Red — the color of blood, cherries, lipstick, anger, love — is blocked from the brain’s visual input from birth, rendered indistinct from various hues of blue and yellow. The resulting world looks uniformly like a scene from a David Fincher film: dull, desaturated, neutral. People with colorblindness experience the same things as everyone else, but not everything looks as vivid as it may feel.
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‘The Less I Know the Better,’ Tame Impala
Review: Sharp Objects
Despite my avid fondness for storytelling, for five years I never picked up a novel and read it simply because I wanted to…
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Review: Black Mirror
Warning: The following post contains spoilers for season 1, episode 1 of Black Mirror.
It’s been a while since I came across some good television, so I figured I’d try and check off a box on my ever-expanding list of series to catch up on…
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