Fifty Cents or Five Thousand Dollars?
We need creative, disruptive solutions that make a real and lasting dent on inequalities in college completion.
June 06th, 2017
technology
September 01st, 2015
Searching For Suicide: Can Google Predict Suicide?
In graduate school, I had an engineering friend named Steve who proposed that he and I, a psychologist, team up to create a machine to predict the future.
July 29th, 2015
Rethinking Consciousness: A Q&A with Michael Graziano
Most theories of consciousness, says Neuroscientist Michael Graziano, rely on magic. They point to a feature of the brain—vibrating neurons for instance—and claim that feature to be the source of consciousness.
June 24th, 2015
Google’s Psychedelic Art: This Is Your Computer Brain on Drugs
In the past week, a set of trippy images revealed on Google’s research blog brought the complexity of the human visual system—as simulated by an artificial neural network called GoogLeNet, developed by Google software engineers—to widespread attention.
April 06th, 2015
When Google Speaks, People Listen…and They Should: A Review of Work Rules!
There is another way—a way that leads to happier workers, more fulfilling work, and more successful companies.
December 02nd, 2014
Google re:Work: Shaping the Future of HR
Google is known for its innovative HR practices and office culture, most notably expressed through the array of perks the company provides its employees.
June 28th, 2014
Manipulating Memory through Optogenetics: A Conversation with Neuroscientists Xu Liu and Steve Ramirez
Over the past few years, MIT neuroscientists Xu Liu and Steve Ramirez have been bringing ideas that might only seem possible in science fiction to reality.
May 27th, 2014
Reading Bee-tween the Lines: BeeLine Reader and Spritz Raise Research Questions
We looked into the science behind BeeLine Reader, which was recently awarded first prize in a Social Entrepreneurship competition at Stanford University, and another speed-reading app, Spritz, to find out more about how they work and if they work.
May 08th, 2014
Q&A with Nicholas Epley Part 1: We Need to Talk
We possess a fundamental need to connect with one another, yet connecting with others in a meaningful way can be awkward, elusive, and challenging.
Q&A with Nicholas Epley Part 2: Ourselves & Our Technology
In Part 2 of our interview with Nicholas Epley, we explore his work on presence of mind–how we perceive and relate to the minds of other people and objects.
