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Encounters in Psychic Everywheres (Meditations on Indeterminacy and Our Grounds of Dispersion)

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2025-May-07
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I use “psychic everywheres” to articulate the explosion of our selves and entanglements in the modern era: we are hyperconnected, yet our capacities for Being (with) are limited by our terms of recognition. I understand this as a crisis of...

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Endocranial shape asymmetries in Hylobates lar

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2022-December-06
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Asymmetries in brain shape, or petalias, is the extension of one cerebral hemisphere beyond the other. In humans, anatomical asymmetry of the brain has been linked to handedness and cognitive functions. Previous research has demonstrated brain shape asymmetries in hominids...

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Energy Consumption and Habit Formation: Evidence from High Frequency Thermostat Data

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2017-January-01
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Using minute-by-minute data from over 60,000 smart thermostats in households distributed across the United States, we analyze the persistence of energy consumption behaviors in response to external weather shocks. The analysis examines habitual behavior and provides insight into what affects...

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ENGL-170-51 Approaches to Literary Studies

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2015-January-01
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Envisioning Cyborg Hybridity Through Performance Art: A Case Study of Stelarc and His Exploration of Humanity in the Digital Age

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2015-January-01
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In this paper I argue that artistic representation has historically been and continues to be a valuable medium for envisioning new bodily forms and for raising important questions regarding changes in what it means to be human in an era...

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