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Cultural FOMO: the neverending struggle to keep up
Books, TV Shows, podcasts, news stories, the latest meme. There's a constant stream of media to keep up with. How do we stay sane?
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We crashed UW’s class on calling BS. Here’s what we learned about sleuthing ‘big data.’
A University of Washington seminar, promises to help students develop a BS detector — and it’s become a global phenomenon.
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Faculty Friday: Marcos Llobera
Marcos Llobera brings landscapes of the past to life through cutting-edge computational methods and digital archeology
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Meet the encephalophone: An instrument you can play with your mind, just by thinking
Neurologists, composers and tech-geeks at the UW's DXARTS program study music and the mind — including the encephalophone, a new instrument you can play without moving a muscle.
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UW Hyperloop team fuels its final dash to the national pod races with crowdfunding
The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line. -
David Thouless Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Thouless, emeritus professor in Physics, is the 2016 winner for his work on exotic matter.
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Stay Woke—With Help From A Bot
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson teams up with artist Darius Kazemi to create a Twitter bot with a mission — and a personality. -
Siri, Can I Be More Human?
What does it take to prove that you are more human than a computer? A&S alum Brian Christian (MFA, Creative Writing, 2008) finds out.
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A Marriage of Art & Neuroscience
DXARTS faculty and students find artistic inspiration in the tools of neuroscience.
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Navigating the Ethics of Neuroscience
Philosophers and scientists collaborate to explore ethical questions raised by neuroscience.
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Decoding Dyslexia
Jason Yeatman's research may eventually lead to personalized intervention programs for dyslexia.
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Former Oregon Lumber Town Rides Digital Wave to a Comeback
A former logging town in Oregon is now home to a few large data centers for Facebook and Apple. The shift in industry is forcing the town of 9,000 to diversify jobs. -
It’s Not About the Moon: The Military and Economic Logics to South Korean Space Exploration
Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim co-published a piece on developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logics. -
Rosetta spacecraft finds key building blocks of life hiding in comet dust – did an extraterrestrial object bring life to Earth?
The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered key building blocks of life in the dust of a comet. -
UW researchers illuminate ways to heal defects in solar cells
New work from the UW Clean Energy Institute suggests cheap energy in the form of solar cells is closer than we think.