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Kachow baby, we’re back. Pixar’s “Cars” (2006) raced back into theaters this past weekend to mark the franchise’s 20th anniversary. After rewatching this movie countless times as a kid, revisiting this classic once again gave me a revelation: it’s time to scale back on social media.

While nothing beats Owen Wilson’s performance as the snarky rookie race sensation Light...


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At least 12 staff members were laid off from the College across multiple departments a month before classes began, the latest in a series of staff reductions as the college has faced financial strains over the past couple of years.

The Beacon confirmed five people were laid off in the College’s finance department, two in procurement services, two in admissions, two in ...


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In the early 2000s, while he was helping define the study of social neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles psychology professor Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D, discovered a fascinating bug in the human condition. Placing a volunteer in an MRI scanner, Lieberman and colleagues Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D. and Kipling Williams, Ph.D., observed that, as they competed in a made-...


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Stars and spirals emerge from the puddle of blue ink on the piece of paper in front of me. There’s a moment of silence and I read the question, underlined by my inkiest pen on the page opposite my doodles. “How does someone come up with this stuff?” I ask.

“They are really special people,” answers


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For all you fresh faces planning to graduate in 2030 who may not be from Boston, or, god forbid, be from the Midwest, these trains rumbling around Boston probably excite you as much as they did me. Coming from Austin, Texas — where the only modes of public transportation are a bus system and a light rail that takes you from one parking lot through downtown to another parking ...


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