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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...
Why Rejection Hurts
When people describe the feelings that result from social estrangement, they often use words that typically are used for describing physical pain, such as...
Makin’ Biscuits
Some cats are oftentimes seen engaging in a rhythmic motion of pushing their paws back and forth on a soft surface, which is referred...
Face the Trauma
Post-traumatic stress disorder, so-called PTSD, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or endeavored a traumatic event. Commonly we...
Detect True Feelings
After watching the drama series, ‘Lie to Me’, I got curious about facial micro-expressions. Facial micro-expressions are rapidly involuntary facial expressions which reveal disguised...