What Makes People Touched

What makes people click?

Mysterious culture: Some online social networks evolve a distinct culture and iconography, like ancient Egypt, only more rapidly. (Photo: Guillaume Lelarge/Wikimedia Commons.) A mysterious new culture has been born. “We are like ancient Egyptians. We communicate with pictures, we worship cats, and nobody understands us.” This paraphrases a post that was reblogged many thousands of times on the ...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes

What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...

What makes us human?

To RSVP or for more information, please call Daniel Leonardich at 415.734.2080 or email [email protected] Science for Life lectures are free with open seating. Parking is available across the street in the UCSF Rutter Center garage. Co-sponsored by San Francisco Conservatory of Music cellist Erin Wang will share with us a brief discussion of “evolution” from baroque through contempora...