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When I first heard the title of the new Egyptology Department exhibit at the Peabody, I had a clear image of what I expected to see after I pulled myself away from the Museum’s amazing dinosaur room. The Peabody is known for its somewhat dusty replicas, and this exhibit is about Egypt and conjuring up a past world, so it must be like a model pyramid or something, I thought to myself in wannabe-valley girl fashion. I was wrong. As soon as you enter, you meet a model with surprisingly little to do with ancient Egypt.

September 13, 2013

Yale School of Medicine neurobiology professor Vincent A. Pieribone has uncovered a new method for mapping brain activity that skeptics once deemed impossible.

September 10, 2013

Students concerned about grading policies may have something bigger to worry about: artificial intelligence software that could be used to evaluate their essays.

April 16, 2013

Consider the zipper. British author Arthur C. Clarke is famous for noting, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and the zipper certainly qualifies.

April 11, 2013

A group of Yale geology and geophysics researchers found that the common method of reconstructing the feather color of fossilized birds is flawed.

April 9, 2013

In a Master’s Tea hosted by Branford College on Monday afternoon, Carey highlighted the challenge of picking stories that are both academically sound and sensational enough to garner public interest.

April 2, 2013

Money can indeed buy happiness, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton.

March 29, 2013

As an extension of the non-date, which the Times aptly describes as “hanging out” (often as an afterthought or as an accompanying invitation to established plans), the non-relationship is ideal for the commitment-phobe. Although you look like a couple and act like a couple, for whatever reason, you’ve decided not to go the extra step into officially defining the relationship. It’s pretty much the dating equivalent of the Mormon “soaking” trend, i.e. the “just the tip” relationship.

March 1, 2013

For decades, pop composition was all about coming up with new ways to use old tools. But today, that’s not always the case. The infinite variety of electronic “instruments,” blips and bleeps and dubstep drops that sound like robot dinosaurs having sex, has obliterated the limitations that necessitated compositional and instrumental innovation, innovation that caused music to evolve as it has.

February 8, 2013

In the exhibit “Portraits of Wounded Bodies: Photographs of Civil War Soldiers from Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1863–1866,” we find portraits with a palpable defiance, not the anxious tremors of the fallen.

February 8, 2013

What I know is that having acne stays with you like PTSD. It doesn’t matter how good my skin has gotten, because a woman who used to have acne is little more than a woman who used to have ACNE.

February 3, 2013