PowderCell – Legacy Crystallography & Powder Diffraction Tool
Archival listing for an academic Windows program used to visualise crystal structures and simulate powder diffraction patterns. PowderCell PowderCell is a classic Windows application by W. Kraus & G. Nolze for visualising crystal structures and computing X-ray/neutron powder diffraction patterns. Although unmaintained, it remains useful for teaching, reproducing older analyses, and testing structure/phase hypotheses on…
Fix Your Student Housing Wi-Fi: When Laptops Won’t Connect But Phones Do
(And How I Fixed It in 10 Minutes) The Confusing Problem I recently moved into Yo-Kylä student village and brought with me a second hand Huawei LTE router. Nothing fancy, just something to provide Wi-Fi in my room. I plugged the Ethernet cable from the wall into one of the LAN ports and fired it…
AI & Work in 2025: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and How to Stay Ahead
Is your career safe from AI? Will your degree still matter five years from now? Here’s what the latest research tells us, and what you can do about it. Why Everyone’s Asking 2023 saw a surge in AI headlines from ChatGPT’s viral launch to CEOs promising robot-driven efficiency. By 2025, AI is no longer a…
AI and the Dead Internet: A Call for Human Content
I would like to start this opinion essay by sharing the following quote by Frank Herbert from his book, Dune: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune Once upon a time,…
Harnessing Nature for a Cleaner Tomorrow: Activated Carbon/Chitosan Hybrid Material for Lead Removal
Research Article Details Introduction The issue of toxic metal contamination poses a silent yet insidious threat to our drinking water. My focus as a Sri Lankan researcher is on addressing this problem using waste materials. I’m actively developing a novel material known as activated carbon/chitosan hybrid material (ACCHM), which merges activated carbon(rice husk) and chitosan(shrimp…
