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Judgment Call
By Cameron Elde, Neuroscience Student, Washington State University Vancouver We are not born with an innate ability to tell right from wrong, nor stroll out of the womb speaking about inalienable...
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The Art of Newsworthiness
By Sarah Neveux, Neuroscience Student, Washington State University Vancouver From blog.savesfbay.org “BIG NEWS!” Is that all it takes to make something worth a few minutes of your time? Would you open...
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Elevator Speeches: Going Up?
By Teresa Straub, Neuroscience Student, Washington State University Vancouver Awkward silence looms over the formally set banquet table you’re sitting at. You nervously fidget with your hands, hoping...
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Making an Abstract Physical
By Nicole Smith, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience Student From talkinboutregeneration.wordpress.com/ How many times have you opened a book to read the blurb on the inside jacket, or even skim through a few...
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Design or Doom
By Bailey O’Keath, Neuroscience student at Washington State University Vancouver The art of making science fashionable. The act of placing complex thoughts onto a large piece of paper. The not so...
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Just Picture It!
By Kyle Campion, Washington State University Neuroscience Student Throughout this past semester I’ve learned one big problem with scientists: most of us scientists can’t communicate science! You may...
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Fame and Fortune: Communication and FameLab
By Nicholas Rolig, Washington State Vancouver Neuroscience Student From http://www.friscolibrary.com/sites/default/files/comm.jpg In academia, communication is an essential part of all fields. Whether...
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Courtroom Mind “Reading”
By Lyndon Lewis, Neuroscience Student at Washington State University From http://www.rocklin.k12.ca.us/staff/lbrun/chemweb/Forensics/Links.htm If you could have any one super power what would it be?...
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Shining in the Spotlight
By Aleksandra Tsytsyn, Neuroscience Student at Washington State University Vancouver From telegraph.co.uk It is time. You are summoned up to the stage. You clutch your notecards within your sweaty...
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Polishing PowerPoint Presentations
By Alyona Kutsar, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience Student In the modern technological world of the twenty-first century, computers are used extensively in presentations of all sorts as visual aids. A...
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Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty
By Levi van Tol, Washington State University Vancouver Neuroscience Student kimberleypeta.com/project/nitty-gritty/ Many times in life we are faced with piles of information. Information that is indeed...
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Storytelling in Science: The Importance of Passion and Perspective
By Kelsey O’Neill, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student Photo: Jim McCulloch Lichens are not typically a common conversational topic or thought of as being particularly “newsworthy”. Yet OPB’s producer...
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Simplify, Don’t Dumb It Down: the art of getting to the point while...
By Jonas Calsbeek, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student “An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.” -Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize winner (1908) This...
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Incarcerating Kids: is the Brain to Blame?
By Courtney Miskell, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student “as any parent knows and as the scientific and sociological studies… tend to confirm, ‘[a] lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of...
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Violence and Video Games: Is There Really a Correlation?
By Silas Aho, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student The night of May 31 2014, in a town near Wisconsin, a young girl was reportedly tied to a tree and stabbed several times by two of her classmates. The...
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Designing a Professional Poster Guaranteed to Turn Heads
By Diana Latypova, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience Imagine that you have a research convention coming up where you are required to present a professional poster containing a summary of a year’s worth of...
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Visualizing Data
By Alexander Tran, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student Pictures, graphs, charts and tables are all forms of visual aids but how do we know if our visual aids are conveying what we want the audience to...
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Let’s Design a Poster!
By Beija Villalpando, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student You’ve spent countless hours running experiments and analyzing data, and now the time has come to advertise your hard work with a poster. You...
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Are we still selective when it comes to Diversity?
By Angela Gonzalez, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student When we see how important “diversity” has become over the past decade or so in schools, communities, and businesses, we think of race, gender, or...
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Neurodiversity: Promoting the Acceptance of Difference or Robbing Individuals...
By Miranda Durst, WSU Vancouver Neuroscience student The term neurodiversity may mean many different things depending on who you ask. Currently, the term neurodiversity is part of a larger political...
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