In 1910, psychologist Max Wertheimer had an insight when he observed a series of lights flashing on and off at a railroad crossing. It was similar to how the lights encircling a movie...
March 28, 2014
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12:51 PM
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation has reached a major milestone: receiving over 10,000 applications for the Fall 2014 entering freshmen class! This represents a 50% increase...
March 28, 2014
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12:46 PM
Box’s documents filed for its initial public offering show that the cloud-storage firm is losing a lot of money. There’s another way to say this: It’s giving customers lots of services for free....
March 28, 2014
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12:16 PM
Addy Osmani intros a Grunt task for removing unused CSS from your stylesheet before serving it. While this is certainly a worthy goal, I look at the quotes from people who reduced their...
March 28, 2014
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12:11 PM
Purchase a 12-month subscription for just $199.99
Through April 14 UMBC students, faculty, and staff may purchase a 12-month Adobe Creative Cloud subscription for just $199.99. The regular non-academic price is $599.88. The everyday UMBC...
March 28, 2014
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12:02 PM
A new guest column in Sabato’s Crystal Ball by Political Science Professor Thomas Schaller argues that future ratification of constitutional amendments will become increasingly unlikely as state...
March 28, 2014
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11:55 AM
An article published March 25 in the online magazine Slate examines the factors that cause humans to laugh. The story cites the work and research of Psychology Professor Robert Provine that helps...
March 28, 2014
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11:54 AM
Come out & learn how you can help keep our community safer!
As April is quickly approaching, the Women's Center & The Office of Health Education want to share the events they have planned for the month. As some of you may know, April is Sexual Assault...
March 28, 2014
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There was a time when programmers were paid by the number of lines of code they wrote. They were treated as source code producing machines working in cubicles and in return they considered...
March 28, 2014
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11:00 AM
2014 Calendar of Events
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Every 2 minutes, someone in America is sexually assaulted. 1 in 5 college women experience a sexual assault. 95% of college-aged victims know their...
March 28, 2014
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