Category Archives: Science and Technology

Physical Appearance Still Triumphs Competence.

I’ve never played the MMORPG’s that Lam and Riedl evaluate in their study, but “Expressing My Inner Gnome” still raises interesting psychological questions in a rapidly evolving world that uses technology as a major means of communication and social interaction. … Continue reading

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Paving Online Dating: A Mass Path of Risk

Facebook, Twitter and other mass forms of social media provide us with personal updates from people we may never even speak to. We find out that Mary just got a new cat and that Bobby bough a new shirt today but … Continue reading

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The Next Big Step in Mobile Communication: Project Google Glass?

The technology world has formed a new invention, but is it really new, or just an altered form of an invention we already have? For those of you who have not yet heard of Google’s Project Glass, here’s your chance … Continue reading

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“Harlem Shake:” The Rise and Fall of a Meme

Remember a few weeks ago when those “Harlem Shake” videos on YouTube were going around? To refresh your memory, sometime around early February amateur web comedian George Miller came out with a compilation video on YouTube that featured a a … Continue reading

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“Meat…is it really good for us ?”

A lot of times we as consumers eat meat and we may sometimes ask the question, “is it good for us ?”  Well a recent study by ABC news reported that lean finely textured beef (L.F.T.B.) or pink slime as … Continue reading

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Progression of the Human Brain with Modern Media

Are internet search engines like Google and Bing changing the way we think? Nicholas Carr delves into this issue in his article, “Is Google making us Stupid?” Referring to media he states that it supplies “the stuff of thought, but … Continue reading

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April Fools Day In the Technological World

It’s the same thing every April 1st, technology companies try to outdo each other with pranks, there even seemed to be a little prank war going on between rivals Google and Microsoft Bing. This is the one day where productivity … Continue reading

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We Are Not So “Tech-Savvy”

Some elders would call our generation “spoiled” before they called us “tech-savvy”. Part of me wants to agree with them. However, I would not go as far as spoiled but privileged. Everything is a lot more accessible nowadays because of … Continue reading

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Away with Solitude, Power to Visibility

In The End of Solitude, author William Deresiewicz begins to describe how our independence and our “small voice” gradually become less important to us.  It seems the greater the advancement of technology becomes, the more we begin to lose who we … Continue reading

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Who Prefers Nature Over Technology These Days?

With technology at the touch of our fingertips, it is easy to revolve your life around it. Millions of kids, students, adults, and grandparents use the computer every day. Yet, many people seem to believe that my age group is … Continue reading

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