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Speculating An Affective Gaze in Scientific Practice: Biotopy and Bio-digital Worlding
2024. Caldo Worldwide
What if gamers become scientists? What if microbes become digital pets?
A mix of lab notebook, journal manuscript and game dev log, this essay recounts the thinking and making of Biotopy. It discusses citizen science, human-biology interaction, and what it means for the history of the scientific self to play real biology.
Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China
2024. Asimov Press. DOI:10.62211/81bp-06ft
Chinese scientists discovered artemisinin in 1971 as part of a secret military project that merged Eastern and Western medicine
Selected by The Syllabus as “Best Journalism” of the week.
Neuroscience Towards an Awe-Inspiring Spatial Design
2019. Conscious Cities Anthology 2019: Science-Informed Architecture and Urbanism. DOI:10.33797/CCA19.01.19
Design guidelines informed by the neuroaesthetics of awe
Primordial Vision: 02021
2021. ecodao.
On seeing before categorization
Unpublished
Making Sense of Icy Times: Early Cold War Science in Alaska and the Founding Years of Arctic Research Laboratory
2023. Undergraduate Thesis
Cold War polar imaginations, scientific practice in extreme environments, and how two biologists studied frozen life
Winner of Horace H. Wilson ’25 Senior Thesis Prize in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Princeton University.
Hybrid Times, Hybrid Natures
2022.
Mammoth de-extinction, history of catastrophic thinking, and the new nature-technology relationship
Playing and Collecting Universal Histories
2022.
On the shape of historical knowledge from a Victorian board game
Forward, to the New Arctic Sublime
2022.
What happened to the Arctic sublime in the late 19th century?