It’s strange how imagination often becomes reality. In the 13th century, Leonardo da Vinci designed machines that were extremely similar to modern day machine guns, submersibles and helicopters. Jules Verne’s sci-fi novels, written in the 19th century, such as Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and From the Earth to the Moon all had elements in them which were deemed quite marvelous, if not impossible, at the time when they were written. Fast-forward two centuries, and we find ourselves with the technology that allows us to travel around the world in much less than…
in which, with respect to our name, we are as confused as you are
By Vivienne Lam
Vivienne Lam is a S/A/F, 24, enjoys looking at DNA bands under UV light and taking strolls along the corridors in the COPP Building perusing fellow Biochemistry alumni. On a more serious note, she is a Masters candidate in Botany, currently working on various podocarps and mycoheterotrophs in her research. She hopes to see, in the future, a genetically modified mango that is at least 80% mango fruit instead of 80% mango seed.