• Donating Blood: It’s Not As Scary As You Think

    When I impulsively registered to be a blood donor, I didn’t expect it to take another six months to actually sign up to a session. I’m not particularly scared of needles or blood, but I must admit, I was a bit freaked out by the whole thing. Given the...
  • Esme Explains: the Fermi Paradox

    Aliens, probability, physics—it might not sound like the most simple or most interesting of concepts, but the Fermi paradox poses perhaps one of the most existential questions of all time: are we alone in the universe? Although commonly associated to Fermi, the question of probability in relation to extra-terrestrial...