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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,...
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and the Protection of Sensitive Genetic Data
In today's data-driven world, few forms of personal information are as personal and revealing as genetic information. Genetic sequencing has become more widely available...
Benefits of Composting: why you should start composting now!
There is less than 5% of residential food waste that is currently being composted around the world. To be exact, about 3.7% as of...
Science of Spider Silk
Every year I move into a new room on campus at Georgia Tech, I buy a package of sticky putty, hoping that it will...
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...
Pride and [ERROR: FUNCTION TERMINATED]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any homework of significant difficulty is in want of long hours to completion. In this case, twenty...
How Binge-Watching Ruins Your Memory
A Tale of Binge-Watching and You
After years of saying ‘I don’t need it’ or ‘it will waste my time,’ I finally caved last year...
Toxic Birds
Introduction:
To consider something toxic, it must produce “an adverse biological effect” to humans or other animals (“Basic Terminology”). For birds, several species have adverse...
Are All-Nighters in College Actually Beneficial?
In college, it’s hard to balance sleep and studying. Many students sacrifice sleep in the hopes that that time spent studying instead will positively...