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The Pot That Keeps on Giving: Perpetual Stew

Image adapted from "Perpetual stew laughing" taken by Annie Rauwerda is CC BY-SA 4.0. Would you eat stew from a pot that’s been cooking for...
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The Pot That Keeps on Giving: Perpetual Stew

Image adapted from "Perpetual stew laughing" taken by Annie Rauwerda is CC BY-SA 4.0. Would you eat stew from a pot that’s been cooking for...

BC.(I): A Neurotechnological Timeline of Innervating Interfaces

References Hebb, D. O. (1949). The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory. New York: Wiley. Hochberg, L. R., Serruya, M. D., Friehs, G. M., Mukand, J....

Neural Links: The Road to Real-Life Telepathy

  Pssst... you... yes you... Can you hear me?  You hear someone speak to you, but nobody is around. What if that was your reality? Being...

Mind Over Matter: How Brain Implants Are Making Telekinesis Real

Imagine a world where you can move objects and complete tasks simply by thinking about them. Sounds like a pretty relaxing and too-good-to-be-true idea,...
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Clay Miller

Three Dog Star Night (Part 1)

I am just old enough to remember a time when most textbooks only spoke of exoplanets (i.e. those outside our solar system) in the...
Cassandra Lund
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The Undersea Bone Devourer

Osedax, from the Latin os, oris (bone) and edāx, edācis (devourer), is a genus of undersea worms that consumes bone. A genus (which is...
Cassandra Lund

The von Neumann Architecture

The von Neumann Architecture Introduction Have you ever wondered how your computer works? Who decided that we should use keyboards to tell our devices what to...
Joshua Suber

Making Bad Decisions: The Science of Decision-Making

MAKING BAD DECISIONS Ever wonder why you make such bad decisions. We make around 35,000 decisions every day, and they can’t all be good. There...
Joshua Suber

A World with New Plastic

THE PROBLEM Plastic pollution continues to be a growing environmental issue. Around 79% of plastic is gathered in either landfills or natural environments. Due to...
Emily Hokett

Sleep Well: Your Psychological Health Depends On It

  There is some truth to the phrase “waking up on the wrong side of the bed.” When I don’t sleep very well, I will...