by Alicia | Jan 13, 2014 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Media theorist Marshall McLuhan once said that television is cool and radio is hot. This isn’t a temperature thing, but rather a classification of media based on the participation it involves from viewers — TV watchers can be more detached, whereas radio...
by Alicia | Jan 8, 2014 | CNET, News, Writing
Investigators already use images from security cameras and photographs snapped by bystanders to solve crimes, but a new study suggests criminal evidence could actually be found in photos that capture the reflections in bystanders’ eyes. Researchers from the...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic
A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journalProceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies. Through color-coded visualizations that show different emotions, the team discovered...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — We’re starting 2014 off right with lots and lots of selfies. Now that we’vecrowned the selfie kings, it’s back to selfie business as usual. Twenty-year-old Jen Selter seems complacent with the fact that she does mostly body selfies, telling the New York...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic
The great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo ate fish and bread like most everybody else. In his 16th century handwritten list of 15 grocery items with accompanying illustrations, the artist requested fish, bread, two fennel soups, a herring (un aringa), four...
