Dance – a form of human expression in which people move rhythmically to music, typically in a quick and lively way. Most people have danced at some point, whether during a night out, alone in their bedroom, in ballet lessons as a child, or even on stage. Impressively, dancing can make the brain livelier! Neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to change and adapt in … [Read more...] about Neuroplasticity on the Dancefloor: a study of dance’s impact on the brain
Putting the “Art” in Artificial Intelligence: How Generative AI Challenges Artistic and Human Identity
If you’d told me two years ago that I’d soon be able to type a short caption and get back fully-formed images of whatever I wanted in seconds, I wouldn’t have believed you. After all, how could a computer possibly learn to assemble shapes, lines, and colors into a visually compelling image without step-by-step instructions from a human artist? Yet this is precisely what is … [Read more...] about Putting the “Art” in Artificial Intelligence: How Generative AI Challenges Artistic and Human Identity
Laughter Through New Lens
Imagine you are dozing off in lecture when a change of pace brings you back—a video is to be shown. The opening scene depicts a little girl picking petals off a daisy. As she counts and the camera zooms in on her face, a chuckle escapes one of your classmates. Silence follows until an overpowering countdown begins that ends with a nuclear explosion. Suddenly, the room is full … [Read more...] about Laughter Through New Lens
Pandemics and Earth’s Resources as seen through the Epidemiology of HIV
Introduction Across the world in March of 2020, the colloquial usage of the word pandemic skyrocketed upon the initial discovery of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The several years in the fight against COVID has set a modern-day precedent for what a pandemic looks like in our world. The constant debates around dissemination of resources, vaccination policy … [Read more...] about Pandemics and Earth’s Resources as seen through the Epidemiology of HIV
Gender Stereotyping and News Reporting: A Case Study of China post-2021 Amendment of Female Laws
Abstract This paper examines gender stereotypes in Chinese news reporting in 2022, mainly through a sample analysis of rape and intimate partner violence (IPV) coverage by different news companies. It tries to find out the relationship between the legal changes in women's rights and the awareness of gender equality, since in 2021, the government improved women's law. … [Read more...] about Gender Stereotyping and News Reporting: A Case Study of China post-2021 Amendment of Female Laws