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Inside the Helmet
Inside the Helmet
The Hidden Psychology of Football
Rishi Sukumar
What Fans Never See
Every Sunday, Monday and Thursday of every single week from September to February, millions...
Blinded By the Bytes
Blinded by the Bytes
Can AI Out-Swift the Superstars of Music?
Introduction
The Science Behind (Artificial) Hit Songs
Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Bad Bunny,...
A Skillet, Some Eggs, and a Story of Migration
I didn’t know what shakshuka was until my partner moved to Boston and convinced me to try a bite during brunch one weekend when...
Psychology’s Replication Crisis
One of the cornerstones of modern science is the criterion of replicability. Replicability is the idea that if a phenomenon is real, it should...
One flesh, two minds
A good way to stop seizures is to simply cut the brain in half. Such a procedure isn’t performed after one or two episodes,...
We need to talk about the women founders of modern science:...
(collaged images of Ada Lovelace, the "analytical engine", and a letter between Lovelace
and life-long friend Charles Babbage"
As a founding person of modern computer programming,...
One TA is Not Like the Others
If your teacher was AI, would you notice? Would you feel duped that you weren’t being taught by a real human? Or would you...
Should We Be Ignoring Duolingo’s Threats? A Look at the Sapir-Whorf...
The recent year has brought to the forefront an unexpected, slightly unhinged new pop-culture icon: Duo, the Duolingo owl. Duolingo is a popular language-learning...
Psych and Tech: Creating a Social Media Trap
In the digital age, social media has become a staple in millions, if not billions, of people’s lives. From Tumblr to Twitter, the digital...
Interstellar’s Movie Depictions: Real or Unreal?
Produced in 2014, Interstellar is an all-star classic space movie, a favorite for many space lovers! Director Christopher Nolan's Interstellar movie is a science-fiction film that...