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A Spritz of Sperm Whale
When you think of perfume, what kinds of ingredients come to mind? Some people may think about flowery scents like rose, cherry blossom, or...
The Uncanny Valley – An Exploration of How Humans Perceive AI
Have you ever seen a humanoid design that looks just off? Whether it's the subtle placement of facial features, an abnormal glint in the...
How Science is Reinventing What it Means to “Stay Cool”
Introduction:
On a hot July day, what you wear to stay cool matters. There are common remedies to help you stay cool: wearing cotton and...
Misophonia: The Unofficial Common Neurobehavioral Disorder
For sure most people have already experienced some ‘disliking’ sounds before. For example, the emergency sirens, high-pitched yellings, public space noises, etc. What’s about...
Monkey to Macbook – The expedited progression of the human race
Within the past 200,000 years, modern humans began to appear. Though it took thousands of years to get to the Industrial Revolution, since then,...
An Infinitely Dimensional Orange: A Slice of Machine Learning
What does the Pythagorean Theorem have to do with machine learning? The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula to measure the hypotenuse of a triangle,...
‘IN Synch
Written by: Lauren Mellinger and Julia Raver
Every girl knows what it feels like during “that time of the month” – bad cramps, mood swings,...
Did the Covid Pandemic shock you? The next one is right...
Do you remember those early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Schools were shut down. Zoom meetings were the norm. Graduation parties, birthdays, and weddings...
The Science of Plan B
After Roe v. Wade was overturned this past summer, I saw a spark of online discussions about access to birth control, as well as...
The Sepsis Umbrella
When most people hear the diagnosis of sepsis, they think of one of two things: oh my god or…what the heck is that? However,...