Capture the Flag (CTF) is well-established as a computer security contest of skill in which teams compete in real time for prizes and bragging rights. At the time of this writing, CTFtime.org [4]—a tracking web site devoted to aggregating team standings across various CTF events— lists 76 such contests, and more spring up each year. But what is the point, exactly? In this paper we detail our ex...

People engage in self-promotional behavior because they want others to hold favorable images of them. Self-promotion, however, entails a trade-off between conveying one's positive attributes and being seen as bragging. We propose that people get this trade-off wrong because they erroneously project their own feelings onto their interaction partners. As a consequence, people overestimate the ext...

Scientific illiteracy is a prevalent problem: between kindergarten and high school, most children progressively lose their inherent affinity for science exploration. The correction of this deficiency requires vigorous participation by the scientific community. This paper details my experiences introducing kindergartners to the basics of cardiorespiratory physiology: pulmonary ventilation and ci...