Jason's Musings

Thesis Journey Part 1: Looking for Research Purpose

What am I doing at TU Delft? Why am I here? This post visits these questions and also what I intend to do for my thesis....

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Superpowered Literature and Reference Management

Alternative title: how to connect your computer to your brain to make literature management and writing way easier!...

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Big Moves To A Better Future

Originally published on The Green Medium on 2017-02-03 [link]. In our global move towards a more sustainable future, there are two main ways we can make an impact on mitigating climate change: * Overcome our dependence on fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy sources * Reduce our consumption - of everything...

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Super Supermoon

This morning was the closest a full moon has been to Earth (at the Perigee) since January 26, 1948. It was supposed to be 14% larger and 30% brighter than a usual full moon. The next time it will be this close will be November 25, 2034 - only 18...

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How I run my website

Since some friends have asked about how I host my website, I thought I'd write a short little guide. As I wrote in a previous post, I recently migrated hosting services. Here's a crash course on how websites work: 1. A computer somewhere, a 'server', is linked to the internet...

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Stockholm in Photos

I arrived in the early hours of Saturday, April 30 by plane from Copenhagen to Stockholm Skavsta (NYO) airport. It turns out that this budget airport is actually over an hour away from the city! If you are going to travel between these two cities, I would recommend taking the...

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Energy Storage Matters

It's been over a month since I arrived in Leeds now. Given how behind I am in my travel blog, I thought I would skip ahead a bit and talk about why I travelled to Europe and why I'm actually here! I am spending my summer at the Centre for...

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Quirky Vehicles and Copenhagen

I'm finally back on here. It's been a long month of... a lot of things. I'll save that for another post though. The important thing is that I'm alive and really well. If you're not following me on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, you're missing out! I've been given history-focused tours...

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Communications and Miscommunications

I've officially hit the road (or rather, skies). Today marks day 4 of the journey. So far, I spent a day in in Reykjavik, Iceland, a half day in Copenhagen, Denmark, and two in Stockholm, Sweden. Although all of these countries are very fluent in English, I've had some trouble...

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Revamped Website

Of course, it's all behind the scenes! Though the University of Alberta offers hosting services to its members, they unfortunately restrict this to "static" pages. This means that to edit my site, I have to literally edit the HTML and CSS code that governs it. This method is crude and...

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