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The latest Edge talk really blew me away. In super-short summary, Nicholas Christakis, MD, PHD, MPH (Masters of Public Health), talks about studying social networks not by topology, but by the flow of “stuff” through the network. To use his analogy, it’s like studying the physiology of the body as opposed to anatomy. I think […]

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For some reason, design solutions to the plant-water problem keep popping up, but you think that by now people could remember to check if their dying green friends were a bit thirsty.
Yep, the options are ever increasing, as now you can stick an LED into your plants and it’ll flash when the h2o becomes scare […]

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Occasionally I’m called out for wearing stripes too often, but what can I say, they’re so… visually interesting. And that’s not just me talking here, that’s cold, hard science. As I’ve discovered in my Cognitive Development course with Dr. Bob Siegler, the fact that stripes are more visually interesting makes all the difference when […]

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Earlier today Dr. Paul Thagard gave a talk as part of Carnegie Mellon’s humanities lecture series, titled “Minds, Mechanics, and Computers.” My Philosophy of Mind class professor, Dr. Andy Norman, told our class about the talk yesterday, and seeing as it was pertinent to this class and my Cog Sci major I figured I’d attend. […]

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The most personal communication:
Last semester in my Interaction and Visual Interface Design course our professor, Shelley Evenson, made a remark about text messaging that’s stuck with me ever since. She told us, “I think that text messaging is the most personal form of communication.” What? Texting? You mean when my phone […]

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Yes, apparently hops - our little cone shaped friends, humulus lupulus, the heart and soul of your favorite IPA - are in short supply. If you’re not familiar with them, hops are the plant that lead to a beer’s bitterness and its grassy, citrusy, piney or earthy flavors. This is more of an issue […]

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What:
In fact, there’s one word you can add to your whiskey vocabulary to sound like an aficionado.
“Expression.”
That’s it. That’s all you need. But I’ve only put the hammer in your hands, let me show you how to pound in the nails.
How:
For starters, any whiskey, Scotch, Irish, or otherwise, is an expression of the […]

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