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How to tell a story with music: a brief narrative analysis of the 1812 overture
music

How to tell a story with music: a brief narrative analysis of the 1812 overture

Even if you are not familiar with Tchaikovsky, you've probably listened to the 1812 overture before, especially the climactic finale. This dynamic piece of music, Tchaikovsky forms an effective narrative structure using a collection of distinctively Russian themes.

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 17 Jul 2020 • 5 min read
Architect Josep Lluís Sert tour at Harvard
Architecture

Architect Josep Lluís Sert tour at Harvard

Architectural tour of the buildings designed by Josep Lluís Sert in the Boston area.

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 3 Sep 2018 • 3 min read
Fidelio
law

Fidelio

Around the 1970s, the United States established a de facto moratorium on capital punishment. What happened? Beethoven was undoubtedly a prolific composer, with his work ranging from the monumental 9

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 22 May 2018 • 6 min read
Bells, Zen, and Mahler
Zen

Bells, Zen, and Mahler

What can Zen and Gustav Mahler offer in answering the question?

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Jungsoo Kim 17 Apr 2018 • 5 min read
Elixir
biotechnology

Elixir

Enjoying wine and cheese is nice, but what else can we do? Last weekend, I indulged with a friend on a young Californian Cabernet Sauvignon and some cheese. The world

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 30 Mar 2018 • 6 min read
Star Wars, The Constitution, and the meaning of life.
life

Star Wars, The Constitution, and the meaning of life.

One should be careful when engaging in an expedition to search for "the meaning." Alternatively, avoid an explicit search all together. The Star Wars franchise now has a

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 26 Feb 2018 • 3 min read
Flameout
life

Flameout

Starting a new year with a big personal failure was demoralizing, but I learned something from the experience. Modern life demands us to tenaciously march toward success and "learn

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 13 Jan 2018 • 4 min read
Gerrymandering Round 2: Gill v. Whitford
law

Gerrymandering Round 2: Gill v. Whitford

Background Back in 2004, in Vieth v. Jubelirer, the Supreme Court decided not to intervene in this Gerrymandering case because it is "a non-justiciable question, as there are no

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Jungsoo Kim 11 Oct 2017 • 2 min read
Zen and the Art of Flight Envelope Protection
life

Zen and the Art of Flight Envelope Protection

Who really flies the plane? Why do I meditate? Questions and thoughts I had while on an early Saturday morning flight on an Airbus A321. Disclaimers: Fly-by-wire and flight envelope

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Jungsoo Kim 7 Oct 2017 • 6 min read
Squirrel and Biconvex Optimization
optimization

Squirrel and Biconvex Optimization

an analogy between squirrel vocalization localization and biconvex optimization

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 1 Oct 2017 • 2 min read
3 Stage Model of Large Scale High Impact Change
idea

3 Stage Model of Large Scale High Impact Change

How can one bring a high impact, large scale, and novel change to society? When bringing something new to the mass market (new type of product, method/tool to solve

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 12 Jul 2017 • 4 min read
list

2017-07 list

Last Updated: 2017-07-09 2017-07-09 Lessig on "Aaron's Laws - Law and Justice in a Digital Age" A convergence of the Aaron Schwartz tragedy, cyberlaw, (not-so-moedern) copyrights, and academic publishing. China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance If Buddhist Monks

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 9 Jul 2017 • 1 min read
Laser: why population inversion is impossible in 2-state gain medium
physics

Laser: why population inversion is impossible in 2-state gain medium

I reviewed some basic laser physics from a class. Laser requires a gain medium with state > 2. Here's a quick analysis behind why. Following Einstein's conventions, 3 things can

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Jungsoo Kim 6 Jul 2017 • 1 min read
Towards a better future for all of us
effective altruism

Towards a better future for all of us

Even if you're not a multi-billionaire like Bill and Melinda Gates (see 2017 Annual Letter for their vision and impact), most of us want to do "good" and

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Jungsoo Kim 2 Jun 2017 • 2 min read
list

2017-03 list

Last Updated: 2017-03-17 2017-03-17 The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains - The Atlantic The Real Story Of 2016 - FiveThirtyEight Argument preview: Justices to consider limits on “exhaustion” of patent rights - SCOTUS Blog Perhaps "the most important patent cases of this term.

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 4 Mar 2017 • 1 min read
mussel

Mussel Washer

Richard Garwin is a polymath physicist who earned his Ph.D. at the age of just 21. Enrico Fermi, his doctoral advisor, supposedly said "Garwin was the only true genius he had ever met." Garwin, at the age of 88, won the

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 22 Nov 2016 • 1 min read
aviation

Airbus 320 vs Boeing 737 accident rate

I have always been curious if there's any difference on the safety records between the A320 family and its only competition, the Boeing 737 family (the Classic). I wonder if the introduction of full flight envelope protection system with fly-by-wire in A320 series potentially

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 17 Nov 2016 • 1 min read
Good Morning Fermat
life

Good Morning Fermat

Preface On August 31st 2016, I made a mistake; I left to work during the peak of rush hour. With the college students back in town (the beginning of the

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Jungsoo Kim 4 Sep 2016 • 6 min read
list

2016-08 list

Last Updated: 2016-08-30 2016-08-30 The Fog of War - Errol Morris This fascinating winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary gives insights into both McNamara's life and the history. A Tale of Two Drugs - MIT Technology Review A small insight into drug

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 30 Aug 2016 • 1 min read
The Supreme Laughter
data

The Supreme Laughter

The Court The Supreme Court of the United States—the highest court in the U.S.—makes decisions that can affect everyday lives of many Americans and the course of

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Jungsoo Kim 20 Jul 2016 • 3 min read
list

2016-07 list

Last Updated: 2016-07-26 2016-07-26 Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter’s Latest Production - MIT Technology Review On Craig Venter's latest venture attempting to correlate health data with sequencing information. This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail? This

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Jungsoo Kim 17 Jul 2016 • 1 min read
music

A Musical Tribute To Science

Listen "Light" by Philip Glass on: Apple Music Spotify In the dawn of the 20th century, the United States was enjoying the period of stability, which also applied to science—particularly in physics. Some in the 19th century even suggested that the

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 12 Jul 2016 • 3 min read
mathematica

Processing Messages (iMessage) Data using Mathematica

WARNING: Copy your files. Don't work directly with your Messages db. Thanks to Apple's continuity, Messages.app on OS X allows you to receive and send regular texts (SMS) along with the usual iMessages. Now this Messages database makes analyzing texting data much easier.

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 10 Jun 2016 • 2 min read
list

2016-06 list

2016-06-30 How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics - HBR For any organization or group, politics is not a stranger. This article shares some of the measures that Facebook uses to prevent office politics. The Illicit Perks of the M.D. Club - NYT

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 4 Jun 2016 • 2 min read
list

2016-05 list

2016-05-23 The Doomsday Invention: Will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction? - New Yorker “... the word hanging in the air—an echo of Oppenheimer, who famously said of the bomb, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do

  • Jungsoo Kim
Jungsoo Kim 10 May 2016 • 2 min read
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