The average person has 35 apps installed on their phone and spends over two hours per day on social networks. When social media originally took off in the early 2000s, its purpose was for users to connect with friends and family, share positive moments, and seek interesting information about the world. Today, social media platforms […]
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No one can deny the rise of intrigue for crime television over the past decade. Maybe you binge-watched “Criminal Minds” during quarantine, saw episodes of “NCIS” over the years, or perhaps just caught a glimpse of any popular crime show. Regardless, many have a preconception of the forensics involved in these fictional investigations. The process
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What sets a group of monkeys on a mission to a new place? What compels large schools of fish to change direction from a predator? How do flocks of geese decide to land in the Fens or pick away at the grass on Centennial? On the individual level, researchers have explored decision-making capabilities, and studies
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By the mid-twentieth century, quantum mechanics was the most contentious debate in physics, with its revolutionary descriptions of the interaction of particles in terms of probability, uncertainty, and discrete values. Albert Einstein infamously disagreed with one of its defining principles that reasoned the shorter the duration of a measurement on a particle, the less precisely
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Despite the seemingly inconsequential nature of information behind a screen, the ubiquity of social media allows it to seep into the reality of many adolescents. The culture of likes, comments, shares, and followers is widely known to seem superficial, but it has a very real connection with the mental health of developing minds. The ways
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A lot of us have people in our lives who seem to experience one chaotic situation or crisis after the next. After a while, you might think that this person, on some level, enjoys the chaos and unpredictability of these situations. Indeed, it may be true that people manufacture chaos in their lives because they
In 2018, Quantic Dream and Sony Interactive Entertainment developed a game with over 100 pages of script and months of filming: “Detroit: Become Human.” The year is 2038, and androids are being used by humans all throughout the United States. However, following the lives and growth of three androids, players start to realize that these
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In a 2017 interview with The Guardian, software engineer Loren Brichter said “smartphones are useful tools, but they’re addictive. Pull-to-refresh is addictive. Twitter is addictive. These are not good things.” What makes this quote significant is the knowledge that it was none other than Brichter who invented pull-to-refresh, a feature now ubiquitous among smartphone apps.
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The brain, arguably one of the most complex organs in the human body, has more difficulty repairing itself than most other parts of the body. While the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, which make up the peripheral nervous system, regenerate automatically, the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord,
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