If you had the opportunity to electrocute your brain to treat your mental illness, would you do it? For millions of people worldwide suffering from treatment-resistant depression, this may well be one of the new ways out of their suffering, research shows. How to cure a brain The brain is
Think about how often you use your phone, computer, or tablet each day. As technology progresses, it is becoming more and more ingrained in our daily lives. Research in technology has developed a field known as human-robot interaction (HRI) that specializes in understanding how people interact with technological systems and
Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated simulation that allows users to interact with a three-dimensional environment as if they were there. VR has been around for decades, but it has only recently become affordable and accessible enough for education [1]. There is a great deal of potential for VR to
The Tree of Society can be considered the sister of Yggdrasil (the Norse Tree of Life). Its branches are complex, interwoven rules, ethics, and customs, connecting separate entities of cultures across cities, countries, and continents. Its trunk defines common law, and its roots are written and unwritten codes of consequences
What is the “new normal” for the modern workplace? The COVID-19 Pandemic altered the global workplace and introduced a variety of online resources to connect remote employees during quarantine. Zoom meetings, Slack chats, and PJs became synonymous with the typical workday. Yet, despite the ubiquity of remote work during the
During the last few years, there has been a lot of noise surrounding both modern medicine and artificial intelligence (AI). Across social media platforms, you will see users sharing misguided opinions on both of these topics, which has driven a great deal of fear and misunderstanding across our greater society.
By Nichelle Wong Background What’s your first reaction to a compliment? Do you smile modestly and brush it off? Do you accept it with a gracious “thank you” and let it brighten your afternoon? Praise may seem innocuous, but women and female-presenting individuals must deal with an invisible obstacle [1].
‘Mini-brains’, or lab-grown clumps of neurons, are a groundbreaking new technology that scientists are using to learn more about how our brain works. “What makes the human brain unique?” Dr. Madeline Lancaster, a neurobiologist at the University of Cambridge, has focused her entire career on answering this one question [2].
One of many fascinating and bizarre phenomena to emerge out of TikTok has been videos of “talking” dogs – dogs apparently communicating with their owners using a set of push buttons labeled with words. We know dogs are capable of making simple associations between a button and a particular action
Graphic art by Margaret Cartee Highly diverse: 20% women. Lampooning this graduate program advertisement lightened the hilarious tragedy of our thermodynamics course – a 17% female proportion. Out of a fairly diverse introductory calculus physics class, I persisted as the only female physics major over the last four years. Let
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