Luca is a 2021 Pixar animated film directed by Enrico Casarosa and the screenplay was created by Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones. The film follows 3 kids and their summer adventure in Italy, where they start out as strangers, and end as a family. Luca is a sea creature who is forbidden from traveling to the surface world out of fear of being hunted. His curiosity eventually gets … [Read more...] about Luca: Strangers becoming Family
Previous Editors Blogs
The Fallibility of Inductive Reasoning
Some of the main questions that psychologists want to understand are “why do we think the way we do?”and“how do we reach conclusions?” One of the ways we reach conclusions is through inductive reasoning. Scientific observations typically use this type of reasoning. For inductive reasoning, observations are made, data are collected, and conclusions are drawn from the data. In … [Read more...] about The Fallibility of Inductive Reasoning
Olfactory VR: Immersing Audiences Through Smell
A truly immersive experience engages all the five senses: sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste. The “three pillars” of XR- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality are heavily focused on immersing audiences through their sense of vision. This is a huge part of how we take in the world around us, so it makes sense that this is so. The next most prominent focus is … [Read more...] about Olfactory VR: Immersing Audiences Through Smell
All My Life: The Importance of Community
All my life is a 2020 romance movie that was directed by Marc Meyers, written by Todd Rosenberg, and based off of a true story. The movie follows our main characters, Jenn and Sol, as they make the most out of Sol’s last couple of months to live. Jenn and Sol are getting ready to start their lives together when Sol gets very sick. He wakes up one night in excruciating pain and … [Read more...] about All My Life: The Importance of Community
The Purpose of Language
This blog is going to delve into a complex argument about the purpose of language. When we think of language, we intuitively think of communication. However, cognitive scientists would argue that the purpose of language is to organize our thoughts. How do we parse out the true purpose of language? We can start by analyzing the four properties of human language: discreteness, … [Read more...] about The Purpose of Language