Life – Beyond The Standard

Cutting Costs, Engineering Safety, and Researchers’ Safety: You Can Only Pick 2

June 18, 2024

Academic tenure-track careers are built on reputation, domain-specific knowledge, and demonstrated achievements, especially those built in the face of hardship and insurmountable odds. In contrast, practicing safety requires going slow, admitting one’s gaps in knowledge, and slowing down and even stopping work if things are not clear or conditions no longer permit optimal work practices. … More Cutting Costs, Engineering Safety, and Researchers’ Safety: You Can Only Pick 2

Furiosa (2024) as political awakening allegory

June 17, 2024

Furiosa began her journey down the Fury Road in the Summer of 2015 and 9 years later has finished telling her story of the long and arduous journey through the wasteland in search of the culprits that poisoned the world and stole her childhood. I too embarked on a long road trip in the Summer … More Furiosa (2024) as political awakening allegory

Rewatch – at the drive in: Get Out (2017) – Jordan Peele

April 25, 2021

Watching this a second time (and this was my first time watching a movie at a drive in theater), with the benefit of knowing the conclusion, is even more interesting … More Rewatch – at the drive in: Get Out (2017) – Jordan Peele

Impressions: Luce (2019) – Julius Onah

April 23, 2021

Luce tackles a lot of interesting and thorny topics. I have to say though, even though I recognize a lot of the white-people tendencies on display with Luce’s parents (like avoiding conflict, pretending like nothing is wrong, and white-savior mentality) it is a bit of a stretch to think they are really so bad at seeing through Luce’s B.S. … More Impressions: Luce (2019) – Julius Onah

Impressions: Palm Springs (2020) – Max Barbakow

April 19, 2021

Palm Springs asks “what is the meaning of life?” and gives a myriad of answers before settling on something between “you only live once” and “let’s make something out of this while we still can.” … More Impressions: Palm Springs (2020) – Max Barbakow

An open letter to Physics and Astronomy faculty at Stony Brook University

October 10, 2020

The pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, our students and faculty alike. Much to our dismay however, we learnt that the graduate students are facing a second blow from the SBU administration: this administration just increased the graduate student fee yet again… … More An open letter to Physics and Astronomy faculty at Stony Brook University

I walked in feeling like I was different and other, and I left knowing that there is still work left for all of us to do to heal that long standing societal and personal damage. … More What I felt at The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum as a white Mississippian