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Evan Ackerman

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Evan Ackerman is a native Oregonian who now lives, somewhat unwillingly, in San Francisco. He has a background in creative writing and astrogeology, neither of which are necessarily appropriate for someone who is now a full-time blogger. Evan also writes for IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog, and when he's not parked at his computer with his eyes glazed over, you can find him getting injured on a soccer field or playing bagpipes excellently.

Nano polymer light bulbs outclass the LEDs you don't have

Evan Ackerman
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 4:17pm
 
We've been waiting for the end of the light bulb for what feels like decades. Incandescent lights are little more than poisonous shatter-prone fire hazards and it's high time we trade up to something better. That something better was supposed to be CFLs, then LEDs, and then OLEDs, but now it's looking like it might be nano-engineered polymer matrices instead.

North Korea discovers unicorn lair

Evan Ackerman
Saturday, December 1, 2012 - 12:01am
 
North Korean archaeologists, well known throughout North Korea but nowhere else for being the most amazing archaeologists in the entire world, have discovered the lair of a unicorn. Yes, unicorns have lairs, and anyone who tells you differently is perpetuating western imperialist dogma.

LHC accidentally creates new form of matter

Evan Ackerman
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 8:55pm
 
It must be nice having a Large Hadron Collider to mess about with. One day you're just minding your own business, running lead-proton collisions for reference in order to subtract out background noise from the lead-lead collisions that you actually care about, and then poof, you accidentally create a new form of matter called a color-glass condensate. Nice.

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