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No full textThis installation contains four components. A small book, an animal-print dish, and a dark-red and purple blanket rest in the corner between two walls in a vertical composition. There is a single light source that awkwardly shines on the first two objects and while the blanket remains mostly in shadow. (Nicole Wang\u2726).https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhou/1604/thumbnail.jp
Plastic Pollutants to the Brain: Wrong Kind of Plastic for the Nervous System
Get PDFThe plastic revolution is here: we store our food in plastic containers, walk around with our coffee in plastic cups, and sit all day in our plastic chairs. We also know that our plastic waste floats around poisoning waters, cluttering streets, and choking wildlife. But it may be doing so much more than we realize - what if it is rewiring our nervous system
Verifying Methods for Placing Upper Limits on Gravitational Glints
No full textGravitational waves (GWs) are a natural phenomenon predicted by general relativity (GR) that are emitted when two compact objects inspiral in a compact binary coalescence (CBC). The systems detectable on Earth include binary black hole systems (BBHs), binary neutron star systems (BNS), and neutron star-black hole systems (NSBH). Another consequence of GR is that when these waves pass through spacetime deformed by gravity from other compact objects (perturbers), a glint is expected to appear. This glint is a copy of the gravitational wave that travels at a slightly slower speed near the perturber and with an amplitude a fraction of the original signal. This project focused on placing upper limits on how large a glint could be without being detected in LIGO and Virgo’s first through third observing runs. The search for these upper limits is necessary because a direct search for glints in the data resulted in none being found, so theoretical limits on these glints must be determined
