you should never give up before you start

Sailor Moon and the Relationships We Build by Azul Pinochet Barros PLASMA 6 article What kid doesn’t wish they had super powers? In fact, what adult doesn’t wish that too? The ability to control something extraordinary at your command, whether it be your super strength, the ability to fly, telekinesis, or to [...]

SPACESHIP EARTH

“I’ve often heard people say: ‘I wonder what it would feel like to be on board a spaceship,’ and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That’s all we have ever experienced. We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.” – R. Buckminster Fuller First [...]

FANTASY BEFORE SCIENCE

“First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation.” Konstantin Tsiolkovsky by Diana Wehmeier (co editor Armand Guzman) PLASMA 6 article In order to better understand the grand endeavor of humankind travelling into space, we must first look to the thoughts, texts, drawings and philosophical movements, of [...]

Moon Tiara Action

love conquers all by Diana Wehmeier PLASMA 6 article Between classes the girls of our middle-school gathered around excitedly to exchange thoughts and reaction of the latest episode of Sailor Moon. It was the 90’s and the show had just arrived in Germany and was the hottest thing. We waited [...]

Time Machines and TV Screens

PLASMA 6 article by Ramon Hurtado   The End.       I want to tell you a story.   Once upon a time, There was a time traveler. This time traveler lived in the year 2020. One day, the time traveler traveled back to the year 2000. When the [...]

Radioactivity

The Scientific and Cultural Legacy of Marie Curie By Matt Ventimiglia* PART 1 “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” (Character Maxwell Scott in John Ford’s 1962 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance). Introduction A biographical encyclopedia of science entry for Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) — perhaps the most [...]

The Naked Eye In the Night Sky

PLASMA 6 article By Jarred Donkersley Everybody loves the night sky. Rumors of eclipses, meteor showers, comets, and planetary alignments fill our imaginations with romantic notions of cosmic fate and a deep, almost spiritual connection between ourselves and the creation of the universe. And it should. Astronomy is our oldest [...]

Looking for Hubble

A day at Mount Wilson Observatory PLASMA 6 article On the 8th of March 2020, the Global International Women’s Day we met Jessica Rodriguez, STEM program coordinator at Mount Wilson Observatory and strong advocate for diversity and equality in STEM. Jess’s everyday job involves bringing students from across LA to [...]

STAR BEATS

TEASER full article in PLASMA 6 Jim Fuller is a professor of theoretical astrophysics as CalTech. Jim studies the physics of ‘vibrating fluid spheres’ and is currently applying this knowledge to studying plasma movements in stars. Internal gravity waves in stars cause constant vibrations, which can be detected through brightness [...]

May the Other Live in Me

PLASMA 6 article by Bella Spencer Interview with Daria Parkhomenko, Laboratoria Moscow. In 1990, a 5 year old girl visited her father’s laboratory in Russia and stared in amazement at the machinery that loomed over her. Unbeknownst to her, this moment would spark a life-long interest in the beauty and [...]

another universe right here

TEASER full article in PLASMA 6  “The World Ocean is as close as you can get to outer space without leaving Earth. It’s an entirely different universe, nothing like the life we have on land. And while people dream about alien life forms from other planets, there is another universe [...]