Raquel Maldonado

On May 1, 2, and 3, Caltech EXPLiCIT brought another Shakespeare classic to the Ramo Auditorium stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s always a pleasure to watch this play, no matter how many versions you’ve already seen. EXPLiCIT is made up of bright, fresh minds with a real interest in art and culture, and that spirit shapes both how they perform and how we receive them. For anyone who doesn’t know the play, Shakespeare weaves together three storylines in Elizabethan style: the Athenian nob

An interview with Pedro Neves, a visiting researcher from JPL. When I first met Pedro Neves, a visiting researcher from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it was at a Watson Lecture in October 2025. Our shared native language, Portuguese, provided an immediate shorthand, but the conversation quickly moved to the mechanics of the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point. Neves was describing a plan to stabilize the global climate by installing a microscopic sunshade 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Pedro

Today, with honor and great enthusiasm, we share the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prizes, announced between October 6 and 13 in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden. The prize is divided into six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The winners are John Clarke, born in 1942 in Cambridge, UK. PhD 1968 from the University of Cambridge, UK. Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. **Michel H. D

It is well known that A.I. companies have red-teaming, RLHF, and guardrail teams specialized in protecting against hate speech, bomb-making, or any crazy idea that pops into a person’s destructive mind. However, even with protection, the A.I. can be “tricked” and

While the cloud condenses anger, I rain tears While the ant walks to its destination, I fly freedom While the apple sweetens the tongue, I salt the sea While the camellia opens its buds, I pollinate truth While the virtue of the corner dies, I insist on being reborn While the beauty of the day streaks, I fall asleep in thoughts While the cat purrs, I mute my convictions While there is a wall, I expand universes While the melody succumbs, I make love triumph While the sun warms the soul,

Watching William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is always a delve into the delig

I’m Still Here is a 2024 Brazilian historical drama directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road, Central Station) that won Best International and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading Role at this year’s 97th Academy Awards. The film’s story is based on a memoir (Ainda estou aqui) by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, telling the story of his family. It is set in the 1970s, in Rio de Janeiro, during the dictatorship that lasted 20 years in Brazil. The story p

I died, and it wasn’t from pain, or old age, or illness. I died, and it wasn’t from mourning, from ending, from longing, from joy. I died, and it wasn’t sadness, hate, work. I died, and it wasn’t in past lives or future lives. I died, and it wasn’t from anguish, loneliness, bitterness. I died! I died of being me. Walls built with high walls and rough stones died in me. Walls that were so real that I thought they were mine were bigger than the Great Wall of China. Walls of prejudice, dogmas, tho

I analyzed my dreams for two years using AI, and this is my testimony. My interest in dreams began when I was a teenager, and my father, after graduating in Civil Engineering and Computer Science, decided to enroll in a Psychology course to understand the human psyche. I lived with him, and there was a clea

You’ve probably heard a joke about JPL standing for Jack Parsons Laboratory. Or at least you’ve heard that Jack Parsons was one of the founders of JPL and that a crater on the moon’s dark side is named after him. But have you ever delved into the subtext, personality, habits, and life of Jack Parsons? Probably not. So, that’s what I’m here for. Over the last month, I’ve studied the life and legacy of this charismatic, visionary, dreamy, mystical… and possibly crazy guy. Remember that in a new

This interview was conducted two weeks before the wildfire that devastated Los Angeles. Nothing underscores the urgency of addressing climate change more than moments like these. Sandy Krasner has dedicated over 45 years to his work as a System Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is also the leader of the Pasadena-Foothills chapter of Ci

Docudrama. 1h 49 min. 2024. Nicholas Winton is an English stockbroker who has a comfortable life in 1930 London but knows that Hitler’s Germany is invading Praga, Czechoslovakia; with a humanitarian group, he helps save 669 children from Nazism. Winton worked quickly to find foster families fo