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Scary Boots - or Kate Oliver as it will say on the degree - is the only pink-haired female on her Physics course at UCL. Having successfully obtained her BSc, she is refusing to leave and staying for an MSci in organic semiconductor devices. This seems to involve fabricating LEDs by spinning plastic onto them, shining UV light on it, addding more plastic, and measuring it until it dies in the hope that it will be The Chosen LED, she who gives more glow for less juice.
Scary writes science so people can read it, and in the hope that they will.
This started when she discovered that her belief that "how things work is incredibly important and interesting, and by extension, that the scientists who work on it are incredible, important and interesting", is not commonly held. Despite people being very keen on plasma screens, cheap leccy and seedless grapes, when Scary mentions what she does at parties, people take one large step back and scan for the nearest available exit. She lives in the hope that if she writes enough, this will cease to be the case, and she will be invited to more parties and possibly allowed to stay.
Scary writes and draws cartoons for The Cheese Grater, a UCL student magazine which won the Guardian Student Media Awards in the Budget Magazine category in 2006, and was shortlisted for just the plain Best Magazine award in 2022. She also draws in a general way for fun, reads voraciously, pogos to old-school punk and has an unhealthy relationship with her laptop in general and the interweb in particular. She is available for tutoring in Physics and Maths in the London area, should anyone care.
Try some of Scary's stuff at the Null:
- Soft science's ancient roots
- Inorganic is inacceptible!
- The galactic sandwich
- Believe it or not: Astrology
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