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  • Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

    CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he grad­u­at­ed from UCLA with a degree in phi­los­o­phy, Sahade­va Ham­mari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons…

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  • The data science of chores

    The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury, theatlantic.com Couples who don’t have a system for household tasks can get really resentful, really quickly. A look at the results of an in-depth study of middle-class families. Between 2001 and 2004, a team of UCLA researchers…

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  • Americans have too much stuff

    UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time inhabitots.com Fam­i­lies drown­ing in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Cen­tu­ry: 32 Fam­i­lies Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Cen­ter on Every­day Lives of Fam­i­lies (CELF). To get infor­ma­tion fo… RT…

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  • UCLA Master of Science in Engineering goes online

    home — UCLA Online Master of Science in Engineering. Related articles Nanoscale capsule effectively kills cancer cells (nanowerk.com) Cyndy Garvey Sues UCLA for Master’s Program Screw Job (thehollywoodgossip.com) Tiny capsule effectively kills cancer cells (scienceblog.com) Tiny Capsule Effectively Kills Cancer Cells (bioresearchonline.com) Spelman College SpelBots Demonstrate Cutting-Edge Robotics at UCLA (prweb.com)

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  • Mobile communications and loneliness

      An article in Boston Globe magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being “un reachable” at times which is becoming increasingly difficult, and of being able to tolerate being alone. In particular the article cites research by an NYU social scientist…

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