Brief Biographical Sketch:

First off, I'm a big physics enthusiast. Though I've always wanted the toys to go with it (Tesla coils, plasma chambers, etc), it's more than that: it even amazes me that when I throw something up in the air it always comes back down. Think about that for a minute... From paper airplanes to cell phones, from laser printers to pop rocks, there's no shortage of weird and fun physics out there, and I love to share that fun with other people.

As for the boring details, I'm a Stanford physics graduate student. My research focuses on the physics that happens between the surface of the Earth on up to a few thousand miles up, including the atmosphere, storms, the "ignorosphere", and low Earth orbit. My job is to figure out the sorts of electrical things that can happen there, from ripples in the atmosphere to 100-mile-long lightning bolts.

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