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What do selfies, aliens and Bob Dylan have in common?
Kim Kardashian may be the reigning queen of selfies, but even she could learn a thing or two from UC Berkeley senior Lydia Tuan, who is teaching a class on what lies behind the compulsive self-portrait snapping phenomenon.
Why Are Habits So Hard to Break?
By now, you might have discovered that taming your sweet tooth as a New Year’s resolution is harder than you think.
Do you need a doula?
A doula (professional labor assistant) provides physical and emotional support to you and your partner during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
Zoning Out or Deep Thinking?
Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you’d never compromise for any reason – such as “I’d never hurt a child,” or “I’m against the death penalty.”
3 Questions: Neil Gershenfeld and the spread of Fab Labs
Ten years ago Neil Gershenfeld, professor of media arts and sciences and the founder and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), began an outreach project that has grown into a global program for empowering local invention, engineering education, and entrepreneurship. He developed self-contained fabrication shops equipped with the latest rapid-prototyping equipment - laser cutters, computer-controlled milling machines, 3-D printers, and so on - that could be easily installed anywhere in the world. Since then, hundreds of what came to be called Fab Labs have been installed in dozens of countries, and last August thousands of the labs’ users and operators gathered at MIT for a 10th-anniversary conference.
What motivates people to walk and bike?
Lower and middle-income King County residents who live in denser neighborhoods with stores, libraries and other destinations within easy reach are more likely to walk or bike, according to new University of Washington research.
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