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NSF director lectures on science innovation
Katherine Casarrubias Gallardo Sethuraman Panchanathan of the National Science Foundation spoke with President Jahanian on AI ...
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CMU faculty weigh-in on the implications of AI for art in faculty dialogues
By Balambal Suryanarayanan CMU faculty highlighted the importance of entwining AI with art, such as the use of AI tools like Photoshop. Claire Thurston/ Staffwriter For ages, art has been a blend ...
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The biology of fear
Haunted houses achieve satisfying scares using triggers short enough to make up jump, but long enough for our brains to realize that there’s no real danger. Shannon Horning/ Scitech Editor I ...
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EdBoard: BOO! It’s Halloweek baby!
Claire Thurston/ StaffwriterMembers of The Tartan donned costumes for a club costume contest and to channel our inner Halloween spirits! Whoever came up with the term Halloweekend was a genius. A ...
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Pennsylvania politicians vie for attorney general seat
The three candidates for Pennsylvania attorney general responded to questions during a job interview-style forum at Point Park University on Oct. 23., sharing what they would aim to accomplish if ...
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CMU students attend oSTEM national conference
Members of Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics travel together to Portland, Oregon. Courtesy of Logan Meritz During fall break, eleven Carnegie Mellon students journeyed to ...
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One Direction to me: Songs that stole a Directioner’s heart
By Balambal Suryanarayanan Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons My introduction to One Direction played out during the COVID-19 lockdown, and I’d like to unabashedly admit that it was Wattpad that ...
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‘Moon Music’: the album that could make me break up with Coldplay
Image from @coldplay on Instagram The last time I reviewed a Coldplay album, I was a first-year. It was one of my first-ever articles, and I was nervous because I thought for sure I wouldn’t like ...
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Pittsburgh Promise will end scholarships for PPS students
The Pittsburgh Promise has provided scholarship funding for higher education to over 12,000 Pittsburgh Public School students since 2011. Arden Ryan/ News Editor The Pittsburgh Public School ...
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Dark academia this, dark academia that, just turn on the lights
College movies are weird. Well, they’re weird in the sense that, after coming to college, I’m not sure if I feel like I missed something or if I dodged a huge bullet. College in the movies ...
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The slasher renaissance
Courtesy of Reddit user noeatnosleep Slashers are back, baby, and you know what that means! A bunch of 12-year-old boys have fully convinced themselves that the scariest thing imaginable is some ...
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Bring back Sword n’ Sorcery: Fixing the problems with fantasy TV
Okay, look, maybe it’s just me, but who made my fantasy serious? Genuinely, who is it? I want to have a strong and vehement conversation with them, because if I see one more fantasy story ...