uchicago
Psychology, Propaganda, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Editor’s Note: This article is a revised version of “Chinese Cultural Revolution: Facing History and Shaping Today“. What we know as propaganda uses a constructed language on media to implant ideas in the minds of individuals. It creates public trends on how susceptible we are to authorities at the individual level. Unfortunately, the human tendency [...]
Biological and Psychological Effects of Human Space Flight
In 2010, Barack Obama passed a bill that will have important ramifications for American space flight in the near future. The bill was called the NASA Authorization Act and introduced several budgetary reforms to the organization, including the cancellation of the program Constellation, which would have expanded the technology necessary for human space exploration. Nonetheless, [...]
reMIND – Creative Eccentrics: Making the Connection
Known as “Japan’s Edison,” Yoshiro NakaMats holds the world record for patents, with over 3,000 to his credit. You can thank NakaMats for the digital watch, the CD, and the DVD, just to name a few of his most popular inventions1. However, his method for invention, as well as his daily routine, may strike you [...]
Making Money off the Poor: Business Models in the Developing World
In the heart of rural India, local farmers plow their land with the help of oxen, abide by tradition, and follow a local ‘sarpanch’ who arbitrates law and order. The villagers do not earn much selling their produce and are distanced from infrastructure where they might spend their earnings. Yet businesses such as Healthpoint and [...]
Fractal Finance: A Rogue Mathematician’s Search for Answers
How do you measure the rough and jagged coastline of the United Kingdom? Or the sharp, seemingly arbitrary rise and fall of a stock-price? To the layperson, the answer to the first question might seem a straightforward matter of getting on a boat and making a trip. 1 The answer to the second question might [...]
The Financial Literacy Movement
According to the 2011 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey Final Report, most Americans do not have financial plans or clear financial goals. Thirty-three percent of US adults, for instance, do not have any non-retirement savings. More than half of US adults do not maintain a budget or track expenditures. With 3.8 million foreclosures in 20106, an [...]
Shortage of Indian Medical Professionals
India is one of many countries facing severe shortages of trained medical professionals – including nurses, dentists, and administrators – but especially doctors. These shortages have wide ranging effects on both the local and the global level, and this issue has the potential to create a plethora of secondary problems for the affected nation. In [...]
Leaf it to Me: Biomimicry and the Artificial Leaf
The concept of environmentalism is almost inevitably coupled to sacrifice and responsibility. In order to reduce our disruption of nature, we are provided with lists upon lists of things we should not do. We should not take long showers. We should not forget to turn the lights off before we leave a room. It’s as [...]
Chinese Cultural Revolution: Facing History and Shaping Today
Editor’s Note: A revised version of this article has been posted on “Psychology, Propaganda, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution“. What we know as propaganda uses a constructed language on media to implant ideas in the minds of individuals. It creates public trends on how susceptible we are to authorities at the individual level. Unfortunately, the [...]
Healthcare Reform: Using Medical Humanities as an Alternative Solution
“16 is too young to sell yourself. You’re old enough to feel like a child When you cry. You’re father died in 2005, you said (by way of explanation) To the undercover cop. He said your small arms raged Against his chest, he said He wasn’t fast enough: You drove a blade into your [...]
Our Draining Willpower in the Digital Age?
Quick, say the colors of the following words out loud: BLUE, ORANGE, GREEN, PURPLE, PINK, YELLOW. How many did you get right? And what does this have to do with willpower? Psychologists use this kind of test to measure our current level of willpower.1 The speed and accuracy of your responses reflects your level of [...]
Rolling Thunder: Racing Across America
For the Rolling Thunder Special Needs Program—a running and wheelchair racing club based in Long Island, New York for athletes with disabilities—the Sunday morning run is the last run of the training week. At 8 AM one Sunday morning in December, the distance runners on the team gathered at the gates of Connetquot State Park [...]
Connect With Us
