Dilshan Chandraguptha, Author at FOS Media Students' Blog

Sleep On It!

by Dilshan ChandragupthaAugust 22, 2020Chandragupta / Science and Technology / Science WeeklyLeave a Comment

Tick-tock-tick-tock, it's 5 minutes to midnight. Tomorrow is your big chemistry exam followed by a guitar audition in the evening. You have been studying and practicing for weeks but you still don’t feel ready. What would you do?

Spend the next ... Read more

Tagged : Exams / memories / Neuroscience / Sleep

Invisible

by Dilshan ChandragupthaAugust 13, 2020Chandragupta / Free ThoughtsLeave a Comment

"Look more closer" for things we can’t see Closer we look, the more we can’t see Substructure of matter, the energy we don’t see Do we understand the things we can’t see? You can’t see the future, you can’t see the ... Read more

Tagged : invisible / knowledge / Poetry / time / what we know

Performance Anxiety

by Dilshan ChandragupthaJuly 25, 2020July 25, 2020Chandragupta / Science and Technology / Science WeeklyLeave a Comment

Dry mouth, trembling limbs, sweaty hands, heart racing, stomach in knots, can’t cry for “Help”, not only because the larynx is too squished to breathe, but it’d be so embarrassing. For some, it might be a wild elephant racing behind. For some, it ... Read more

Tagged : fight or flight / Neuroscience / Public Speaking / Stage Fright

Dyslexia

by Dilshan ChandragupthaJuly 11, 2020Chandragupta / Science and Technology / Science WeeklyLeave a Comment

“I lieadf in esmo ebcjstus ni my eaxm, btu my neirfd sedpsa in lal. woN eh is na ngeerien in ocoitMrsf nad I ma het erown of sooctfMir.”

I hope you took some time to decode every word of the sentences above. Well, that was a simulation of the ... Read more

Tagged : Dyslexia / Language learning / Neurological diversity / Neuroscience

Purple Pavements

by Dilshan ChandragupthaJune 18, 2020June 18, 2020Chandragupta / Free ThoughtsLeave a Comment

The purple sky had a weird dose The lamp-lit streets made me froze An iron gate closed, no one close Felt the numb veins head to toes Crows chirped in the lonely park Peeped to the moving wheels in the dark None showed! Where is that ark? Didn’t ... Read more

Tagged : friendship / little moments / love / purple evening / Waiting

Artificial Leaf

by Dilshan ChandragupthaMay 23, 2020Chandragupta / Science and Technology / Science WeeklyLeave a Comment

Do you believe the fact that 10 to 15 drinking water bottles can power up your house for 2 days? The Harvard Professor, Daniel Nocera said that the Chemistry of plants is the most likely place to find a solution for the long ... Read more

Tagged : Artificial Leaf / Artificial Photosynthesis / Biochemistry / Electrochemistry / Genomics / PCET / Photosynthesis / water splitting

A Glance at Particle Physics

by Dilshan ChandragupthaApril 25, 2020Chandragupta / Science and Technology / Science WeeklyLeave a Comment

Scientists were always fascinated by the idea of finding the smallest particle. The electron was the elementary particle known for the longest time. Exploring the atomic nuclei under particle physics led to the addition of more particles. The positively ... Read more

Tagged : Particle Physics / Physics / Standard Model of Elementary Particles