User:RGallagher

Fun Facts:Once I swam 3 and a half laps underwater, no breath (~85m). I've also gotten violently ill 35ft underwater before.

Interesting Grand Challenge Article

Simple Solar Jon Cartwright, New Scientist, published 11/10/2012, accessed September 14, 2014 (Make Solar Energy Economical)

More Interesting non-Grand Challenge Article

I didn't realize this wasn't a Grand Challenge until after I made the link, so it'll stay.

Is the Next Energy Alternative Taking Flight? Megan Michelson, Outside Magazine, published August 1, 2014, accessed September 14, 2014

Most interesting Demo

I liked the Bending Truss demo the most. Even though I understood none of how it worked, unlike how I could at least follow along with the Mathematics and Graphics demonstrations, I still thought it gave an example of a real world application of MATLAB by showing how badly a bridge can get screwed up.