Dylan Moore is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California who majored in Computer Science & Business Administration. He is obsessed with mobile apps and the idea of making people’s lives better by building great products. He enjoys longboarding, live concerts, and skiing in his free … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Flexible Infrastructure
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WEIRD SCIENCE: Wrinkly Fingertips Proven Useful
By Sam Cadwell If you ever soak in water for more than five minutes, likely you’ve noticed that your hands and feet become wrinkly. If you’ve heard of osmosis, the process by which water diffuses from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration through permeable membranes, you might think this explains how pruny fingertips come about. A long held … [Read more...] about WEIRD SCIENCE: Wrinkly Fingertips Proven Useful
WEIRD SCIENCE: Wall Crawling with Directional Adhesion
By Sam Cadwell If you’re a fan of comic superheroes, some suspension of disbelief is required. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe explains the amazing Spider-Man’s ability to climb walls as his ability to “enhance the flux of inter-atomic attractive forces on surfaces he touches, increasing the coefficient of friction between that surface and himself.” … [Read more...] about WEIRD SCIENCE: Wall Crawling with Directional Adhesion
What’s On the Screen (and Beyond): From Abstraction to Realism in Game Art
Nick Farmer is a junior studying Interactive Entertainment and Theatrical Scenic Design at the University of Southern California. He is an aspiring professional insomniac and production designer who spends his free time preoccupied with his two greatest loves: cooking and Disney theme park expansion rumors. Outside of living in a holodeck, where a player acts out an … [Read more...] about What’s On the Screen (and Beyond): From Abstraction to Realism in Game Art
Science, Censorship, and Security: Mammalian-Transmissible H5N1 and the Dual Use Dilemma”
Otana Jakpor is a senior double majoring in Global Health and Biological Sciences, with plans to matriculate into medical school in the fall. When she is not happily harmonizing with Overflow A Cappella or dutifully delving into rigorous readings, she enjoys injecting as much alliteration as practically possible into her prose (frequently to her friends’ … [Read more...] about Science, Censorship, and Security: Mammalian-Transmissible H5N1 and the Dual Use Dilemma”