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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...
The Horny Human’s Siberian Adventure: An Evolutionary Tale of Anthropological Proportions
Let me set the mood for you: you’re an anatomically modern human living in mountains of Siberia. The year is circa 80,000 BC. Siberia...
The movie “Contagion” is so realistic it’s boring
I have been looking forward to seeing the movie Contagion since it came out last year and I finally got to see it last...
Tap That
Conservation is not a commonly exercised word for most Americans. A booming economy once offered us blissful ignorance from contributing our share of frugality...
Ultraviolet radiation: what you can’t see can still hurt you
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine showed me an article on MSN about a man whose face was obviously more wrinkled on...
New Houston: We have a problem
If you are a technology enthusiast, NASA observer or all around space geek, you don’t need me to point out the connection between two...
Whale Fall
Normally, the term “dead whale” reminds me of long, tedious hours slogging through Moby Dick or sad images of beached or slaughtered animals, but...