As We Take Our Last Breath As Undergrads My Fellow Graduates, When you took your first breath on Earth, you underwent a beautiful, irreversible transformation. Before, your lungs were fully immersed in fluid, but your body was now introduced to an alternate input: oxygen. You desperately respired, admitting this new […]
UCSB researchers recently found an evolutionary link between political motivation and physical strength in males, where increased upper body size indicated a more aggressive and self-serving stance toward resource redistribution. Daniel Sznycer, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB’s Center for Evolutionary Psychology, Michael Bang Petersen of Aarhus University in Denmark and […]
In the history of armed conflict, the intelligent use of evolving technologies has been shown to overmatch even the most tested tactics and courageous warriors. The fourth NexTech war-game, organized by the Rapid Reaction Technology Office/Emerging Capabilities Division of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Noetic Corporation, was […]
Writing my final Gaucho’s Guide column fills me with musings on the passage of time. As such, it’s only fitting that today we talk about time travel. Time travel logic is notoriously difficult to get right, and in fact, most writers don’t even try. The movie “Looper,” for instance, has […]
In today’s increasingly connected world, information flows and spreads. Messages get retweeted, photos get reposted and videos go viral. Such online interactions can have real-world consequences, as demonstrated by protests such as Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, in which protestors communicated and spread ideas via social media. Such […]
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