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Laurie Robinson, the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at Mason, cowrote a opinion piece with former Washington, D.C., police chief Charles Ramsay about training police on use of force.
“The general idea is that people take certain events during the week that are cyclical, and they anchor themselves to it, and the farther you get out from that anchor, the harder it is to tell when it is,” says Martin Wiener, PhD, an assistant professor of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
Robin Hanson, Department of Economics faculty member, predicts in Gizmodo that media coverage of artificial intelligence will wane in coming years, reflecting a cycle of interest.
Dr. Daniel Gartenberg, HFAC alum is working on tech that stimulates deep sleep, the most regenerative stage which (among other wonderful things) might help us consolidate our memories and form our personalities. Find out more about how playing sounds that mirror brain waves during this stage might lead to deeper sleep -- and its potential benefits on our health, memory and ability to learn.
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