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The Future of Touch: How Neural Networks are Revolutionizing Prosthetics
You might be familiar with The Amazing Spiderman where Dr. Connors, the villain, has an amputated arm. He tests reptilian DNA to see how...
Don’t Fall for the Galileo Gambit
Image Credit: Galileo gambit. (2018). RationalWiki. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit
Lots of new ideas are introduced to science all the time. Many of these ideas are accurate and...
So You Hate Your Major… Now What?
Imposter syndrome is a phrase that many people in academia are uniquely familiar with. The feeling that maybe you aren’t smart enough for your...
Is Love Truly Blind? An Analysis of the Popular Dating Show
From its initial debut on Netflix in 2020, Love is Blind has captured audiences and secured itself as one of the most popular dating...
England’s Greatest Engineer: The Eighth Wonder of the World
To Isambard Kingdom Brunel, January 12th, 1828 seemed like just another Saturday morning. Little did he know, it could have been his last. Brunel...
The Art of Getting Robbed with Gringo Perdido
As a US citizen who travels internationally to conduct research, I’m well aware of the perception that gringos = $$. Sometimes that perception is...
Cultural Collisions with Gringo Perdido
In case you’ve ever wondered what happens to the items that are too lame to re-sell in thrift stores in our culture, they eventually...
The Ballad of Gringo Perdido
Herpetology and getting lost. These are the two driving themes of my life. They have shaped my career and enabled me to discover species...
Creepy costumes: radioactive Madame Curie
This year for Halloween, why not celebrate Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize? The good news (for you, not for...
Body snatchers: grave robbing for medicine
NOTE: This post is not related in any way to the 1956 sci-fi film that depicts an extraterrestrial invasion where the invaders “steal” human...