Jennifer Ouellette
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I'm a fan of simple, creative design.
Answers to some common questions:
1) I studied Mechanical Engineering in School. I did my undergrad at BYU and Masters at USC.
2) I worked for NASA JPL for 9 years, 7 of which were working on the Curiosity Rover (I made a video about it you should def totes watch cause it's probably my favorite of all my videos). I founded a company called Digital Dudz on my nights and weekends while working at NASA (also made some videos about that) and sold it to the guys who make Morphsuits in the UK. As part of the sale I quit my job at NASA and worked for them coming up with all their new costume ideas for 2 years. Recently, I was presented with an opportunity to return to my Engineering roots to come do some ideation type of work for a tech company near San Francisco.
3) Link to free and therefore substandard build plans for my custom workbench can be found below.
Among this week's highlights: the fluid dynamics of hagfish snot, LIGO disputes claims of galaxy-warped gravitational waves, and measuring gravity by dropping individual atoms. Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree. "Normally we don’t notice because the “wavelengths” of matter are typically tiny—and yet, University of Otaga researcher Shijie Chai and his colleagues, Dr. Mikkel Andersen and Dr. Julia Fekete, have found a way to manipulate them into yielding a precise measurement of the gravitational field." When the new definition of a kilogram takes effect in May, “Le Grand K,” the official arbiter of weight measurement for well over a century, will face a Pluto-style demotion.
On the Third Day of Christmas: Economists try to calculate the true value of Facebook to its users (as opposed to market value) in new study. On the Seventh Day of Christmas: The secret to champagne’s universal appeal is the physics of bubbles. On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Quantum physicists in the 1920s helped found field of quantum biology, much earlier than you might have thought. All we want for Christmas is the first trailer for Jordan Peele’s new horror film, Us, the much anticipated follow-up to 2017's amazing Get Out. Sugar and Spice: There’s suspense but little magic in new teasers for Amazon’s series adaptation of Hanna.
Through the Looking Glass: Spock smiles in the face of danger in new trailer for Star Trek: Discovery S2. How Walkers Avoid Collisions: Observations of large numbers of pedestrians in two new studies offer insights into how humans avoid bumping into each other. White holes are black ones in reverse, spewing out matter– and they could give us our first glimpse of the quantum source of space-time, says physicist Carlo Rovelli. Some of the signature "weird" results of quantum physics turn out to be essential for things we use all the time, including Internet sites talking about physics.
Among the highlights: LIGO and Virgo announce four new black hole mergers; the biophysics of how geckos can run on water; and 3D printing a wormhole for sound waves. Turning It Up to 11: Physicists detected gravitational waves from four new black-hole mergers. Scientists Can't Agree On The Expanding Universe: It's either a cosmic mystery or a terribly mundane mistake. Any time you toast bread, turn on a fluorescent light, or use a computer, you're making use of quantum physics.