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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...
Neurotransmitter Notes: Dopamine
“I'm just a chemical in your head
I'm just that Dopamine
So come on line me up
Come on line me up”
- “Dopamine”, Third Eye Blind
As a...
CHOOSE YOUR POKÉMON!
CHOOSE YOUR POKÉMON!
I still remember the first time I booted up my brother’s GameBoy Color and saw that iconic title screen of Pokémon Red...
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...