Some Don’t Realize What a Profound Gift of Time This Pandemic Is

Which would make you happier: more time or more money? Most people want both and say they’d be happier if they had both. However, most of us spend the majority of our time chasing money and sacrificing our experiences and relationships in the quest for financial security

The Powerful Force of Nostalgia

When I was a kid, the year 2020 was a date in science fiction novels. But here we are in the future—and yet remakes, reboots, and revivals are still wildly popular across all forms of entertainment media. There’s even a convention called NostalgiaCon Ultimate 80s Reunion now running in its second year and growing in attendance

Investigation into optimal Rh(III) deopant placement in silver bromide emulsions

An optimal rhodium (III) doping scheme for silver bromide emulsions was sought which maximized emulsion speed loss, emulsion contrast and coated emulsion stability. Experimental results showed that the photographically active rhodium complex must be co-precipitated with the silver bromide in order to achieve a sensitometric modification of the final emulsion. This dopant induced sensitometric modification was not stable and decayed with time

The Agony of Defeat

I have a confession to make: I’m not a true sports fan. I’d love to be one. I wish had what it takes. But I don’t. Not yet

Measuring Learning in an Honors Interdisciplinary Course on Video Games

Some research suggests that video games can be effective tools for learning complex subject matter and for teaching students how to manage and work with information in project settings. In this paper we discuss our experiences teaching and conducting SOTL research in an undergraduate Honors Interdisciplinary team-taught seminar. The course, entitled Gaming 360: The History, Culture, and Design of Video Games was taught during the Spring 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters and included 20 Honors in the Major (HIM) students. Our primary research question was this: How would students improve their understanding of video game production concepts (video games as technologies) and develop an understanding of video games as cultural and critical tools (video games as texts) as a result of participation in our honors seminar? Here we discuss teaching strategies and challenges and present a preliminary analysis of data from the first offering of this course

The Impact of Higher Education on Police Officer Attitudes Regarding Abuse of Authority

This study examines whether officers who receive a college education (four-year degree) prior to entry into the police service have attitudes that are less supportive of the abuse of police authority. This research also explores whether level of higher education and the timing of degree completion alter this potential attitudinal impact of a bachelor's degree. Using data from a nationally representative survey sample, I find that officers with a pre-service bachelor's degree hold attitudes that are less supportive of abuse of authority. These effects remain regardless of when officers receive their degree and across varying levels of higher education (i.e. associate's degree, attending some college). Postsecondary education does not have a statistically significant impact on officer ratings of the seriousness of hypothetical abuse of authority scenarios. These findings suggest that higher education has some beneficial impacts for policing, although these benefits are not only associated with completing a four-year degree

Going Beyond the Blue: The Utility of Emergency Medical Services Data in Understanding Violent Crime

National victimization data suggest less than 50% of violent crime incidents are reported to the police. Official reports of crime to police, however, are often the only type of data used for the analysis of violence problems, the identification of geographic concentrations of violent crime, and the selection of targets for police and prevention resources. Yet, the question remains, are estimates of violent crime prevalence and location distorted from a unilateral reliance on police data? Here, we examine whether emergency medical service (EMS) data collected by the fire department are spatially concentrated in the same way as police data and whether these data can help identify instances of violence unreported to police in the city of Seattle between 2009 and 2011. We find high levels of concentration in both police and EMS data and evidence that new information is learned about the location of violence problems from utilizing multiple data sources. Overall, these findings contribute to a small but growing body of work that demonstrates the utility of nonconventional data in the identification of crime and harm concentrations of interest

The Mountains Are Not IN the Way—They ARE the Way

If you want to get back into shape but find yourself staring up at that impossible mountain, don’t go it alone. We are stronger together