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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...
Hidden Figures Beyond: The First Black PhD in Chemistry, Marie Maynard...
How would you feel if you knew your work inspired hundreds, maybe even thousands of rising scientists to pursue the career that was meant...
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (2019-nCoV) Outbreak that Everybody is Talking...
People have different preferences for how they want to follow what is going on around the scientific world without having to spend too much...
Do You Live in a Kind Area?
When I went home to Kansas over Christmas break, we had a particularly nasty snowstorm, and my family and I happened to be out...
Gauging the Tides of Climate Change
When scientists or politicians begin to talk about climate change, most people become scared by the severity of the issue at hand, thinking there's...
Engineers Exposed: My Favorite Ethics Scandals
Imagine training your whole life to become an astronaut. Excelling in aerospace engineering degrees, going through years of training and exams, only for some...
That sounds fishy…
While scrolling somewhere in the interwebs, I saw a post someone had made about trying to hold their breath during action movies whenever the...