Splash Biography
ERIK LOKENSGARD, UChicago Senior Studying Bio and Creative Writing
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Major: Biology College/Employer: University of Chicago Year of Graduation: 2009 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Erik was born in New York City. Riding his scooter to school and squirrel fishing in Washington Square Park, he speculates that it was his early city exposure that attracted him to the great city of Chicago for college. He moved to Richmond, Virginia at the tender age of five where he read a lot of books, tickled the ivories, and hunted for crayfish and leaches in the neighborhood creek. He has worked as a counselor at an adventure camp in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and as a biology research assistant in southeast Alaska. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)H288: Splitting the Banana Split -- The Science of Cold in Splash! 2008 (Oct. 04, 2008)
In this class, we will make ice cream while simultaneously exploring the bizarre science behind making cold. How to heat something up has been understood for millenia -- try rubbing two sticks together really fast -- but how to make something cool has baffled great thinkers for centuries.
The first people able to "generate cold" were thought to be magicians. If you want to learn some of the surprising science behind the magic, play cold potato with the noble goal of making ice cream, investigate the strange properties of liquid nitrogen, see a nail get hammered into a board with a banana, learn how animals deal with the intense cold of the Arctic and Antarctic, and explore other amazing physical feats of cold, this class is for you. If you'd like to soak your head in a bucket of water instead (Chicago summers are hot!), at least take time to thank evaporative cooling. Hope to see you there!
B13: Sex and Evolution in CASCADE (2009)
Bizarrely disproportionate sexual features -- like enlarged testicles in Cape ground squirrels -- can confer reproductive advantage. Yet frequently these ...
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