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Looking Toward 2020 with Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown
12/12/2018
Willie Brown has spent his life in public service. He served over 30 years in the California State Assembly – 15 of those years as Speaker – before becoming the first African American mayor of San Francisco. For the past 10 years, he’s been writing a column for the San Francisco Chronicle on politics, movies, … Continue reading "Looking Toward 2020 with Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown"
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Your Brain on Advertisements
12/11/2018
Advertisers are always looking to better understand consumers’ preferences and decision making. The application of neuroscience knowledge and techniques to answer market and media research questions is not new but in our digital age, the practice raises new questions about privacy, informed consent, and consumer autonomy in decision making. Dr. Carl Marci, Chief Neuroscientist at … Continue reading "Your Brain on Advertisements"
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Informacy is the New Literacy
12/06/2018
As anyone who uses a computer, tablet, smart phone, or VR (virtual reality) device knows, we live in an Information Age unprecedented in human history, in which the sum total of mankind’s knowledge is available with a finger’s touch or click of a mouse – or a question posed to Alexa, Siri, Cortana, et al. … Continue reading "Informacy is the New Literacy"
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What Happened When Modern Humans Met Neanderthals?
12/04/2018
In short, they interbred, according to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish biologist and pioneer of paleogenetics, the study of preserved genetic material from the remains of ancient organisms, including ancient human DNA. He has served as director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, since 1997. … Continue reading "What Happened When Modern Humans Met Neanderthals?"
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| Long before the dawn of the dreaded "romcom," the classic Hollywood comedies of the 1930s often used the battle of the sexes and/or the classes as their backdrop, and were characterized by witty, rapid-fire badinage, absurdist plots, visual puns and sight gags, overt sexism, and wildly overconfident... |
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