Robert Edgell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute – Seeing 3D

Go with the flow. Robert Edgell, professor of technology management at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, explains that getting users in a flow-state may be the best way to get them to hand over their dollars for a wearable 3D gaming device.…
Could being creative come with a side dish of psychopathy? Today on The Academic Minute: Adrianne John Galang, assistant professor of psychology at De La Salle University, explains why highly creative artists may have a bit of dark side, too.…
Academic Minute from 7.25 – 7.29 Monday, July 25th Jonathan Wynn – University of Massachusetts Amherst Festivals Jonathan Wynn works at the intersection of urban and cultural sociology. His two major publications are The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New…
People cluster together in cities, by chance or by choice. Today on The Academic Minute: Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the University of Southern California, examines how this applies to physics and whether cities behave like particles in a…
As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts…
More information on enslaved people has come from an unlikely place. Joshua Rothman, professor in the department of history at the University of Alabama, discusses how ads placed for the return of runaway slaves gives us a more complete picture…
Does publicity add to or subtract from paid promotional materials? Andrew Ching, associate professor of marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, examines whether something needs to be said twice if someone else has already said it…
Sadness might not be a negative emotion when it comes to music. Henna-Riikka Peltola, university teacher in the department of music at University of Jyväskylä, discusses how emotions are never as simple as sad or happy. Henna-Riikka Peltola graduated from…
Bringing people together for a weekend can be better for a city than building a museum. Jonathan Wynn, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses how more performances and less concrete can lead to fewer problems…