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Adam Kaminski

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Psy-ence

By Adam Kaminski | April 20

Psychology is about as old as my great-grandparents, experimenting with their emotions, upsetting their mothers and coming of age in the years preceding the turn of the 20th century. But whereas my great grandparents have long matured (and deceased), the field of psychology is neither mature nor deceased. One might accredit this to the insatiable drive to uncover the human mind, coupled with its inherent difficulty. 

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Technology and culture: a melancholic necessity?

By Adam Kaminski | April 14

The benefits of technological expansion don’t have to be enumerated. Computers, phones and pingpong balls not only consume the lives of most college students (save the hardcore hippies), but also make them easier or even (considering how lost I would be without Facebook) possible. The convenience and efficiency of utilizing technology in our daily lives, however, may be dwarfed by the larger implications of the development of what some (Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, a professor and director at MIT Sloan, respectively) call the second machine age. 

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Prudence, fallible machines and Candy Crush

By Adam Kaminski | April 7

It’s easy to adopt the mindset that progress for the sake of the progress, never mind progress for the sake of Super Smash Bros. (1999-present) fanatics and squeegee enthusiasts, is an inherent and unquestionable good. This perspective is convenient and intuitive; ideology, the dogma of a Christian Scientist or the ravings of a polemic philosopher gone haywire, for instance, seems like all that could conceivably lead someone to reject triumphs like neuroprosthetics, supercomputers and my latest Candy Crush (2012) high score.

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Myopic fog, doomsday and banana slugs

By Adam Kaminski | March 30

The Kingdom Animalia may never surpass Disney’s paradisiacal Animal Kingdom on the lists of young and spoiled adventurers, but it is a magnificent place, full of mix-ups and oddities even stranger than what you might find in a Disney World custodial closet. Unless, of course, what you find in said ...

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Would you mind?

By Adam Kaminski | March 9

If some egregious person sneakily helped himself to my last magic biscuit, bashing his head with a rock might feel warranted. If some buffoon unleashed his “domesticated” lion, running away might feel pretty darn natural. 

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Science

Kaleidoscope science

By Adam Kaminski | March 2

Ever since my middle school days, when I was compelled to watch “Leprechaun in the Hood” by what I now imagine must have been near-Clockwork Orange-tactics, I have had a slightly biased vendetta against all of cinema.Although I seemed entrenched in my anti-cinematic ways to friends and family, this ...

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Columns

Computing morals, saving cups

By Adam Kaminski | February 23

Whether taken from religion, deep philosophical reflection or (god help us) enrapturing television programs like Game of Thrones, unique moral codes guide us through ambiguous and sticky situations. How else would we know how to act when vying for free rooms in Eaton? Why else would we stop stealing cups from Dewick?

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Columns

What I’ve said lately

By Adam Kaminski | February 16

In lieu of a typical column -- 600-ish words written by someone who has a genuine interest in a thing that is genuinely interesting -- this week I will be sharing something I wrote with a friend. It’s not particularly pertinent, radically relevant or especially excellent, but it was a lot of fun to write and maybe a little fun to read. 

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Columns

Freedumb?

By Adam Kaminski | February 9

Last week I tackled the question of whether or not I’d melt like a belieber clutching the Biebs when meeting my own teenage crush, Cyborg the Teen Titan (given that, of course, Cyborg could crush just about anything).

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Columns

Reinventing Cyborg

By Adam Kaminski | February 2

It was probably as late as middle school when images of Cyborg, transmitted via digital telecommunication, translated into impulses by retinal ganglion cells and carried via optic nerve to the occipital lobe, first entered my consciousness. I’m referring, of course, to the Teen Titan - that cybernetic product of technology and inspiration redolent of some Terminator-Blastoise fusion.

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