Disruption Without Anger: How to Change America Without Being Angry An Interview with Andrew Young

How Young Children Evaluate People With and Without Disabilities.

How do preschool-age children evaluate people with disabilities, and does social contact make children more positive toward those who are different from them? To answer these questions, typically developing 3- to 5-year-old children completed tasks designed to measure their social preferences for, and judgments about the actions of, unfamiliar individuals with and without disabilities. Particip...

How to change the world without ruining it or yourself.

Seeing without being seen

Over the past decade, researchers have reported several impressive discoveries aimed at controlling the flow of light in ways that defy common intuition. Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta, at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania, in a paper in Physical Review Letters now propose a way of sensing with light through a nearly invisible detector [1]. This follows previous...

Angry Birds Project ( Vision Component ) By : Andrew

In this project, we focus on developing a vision module for agents playing the Angry Birds computer game. The module takes a screen-shot of the game as input and output information about objects in the game, including their position, type and shape, within a specified time constraint. To achieve this, a range of common methods in image processing and computer vision was employed. The result is ...

How to live without BRCA1

C ancer cells are resourceful survivors with plenty of tricks for staying alive. Grotsky et al. uncover one of these stratagems, showing how cells lacking the tumor suppressor BRCA1 resume one form of DNA repair, sparing themselves from stagnation or death (1). BRCA1 helps to mend double-strand DNA breaks by promoting homologous recombination (2). Loss of the BRCA1 protein appears to boost abno...