In The News: College of Liberal Arts
The Clark County School District class of 2024-2025 will be receiving a graduation cap in May, but that’s not the only cap the class is receiving this year. Grade point averages will also be capped for the class at a 4.95, maximizing the potential number of students in the running for valedictorian. The first class to be affected by this change was the class of 2024, who graduated earlier this year.
Maybe people can control time — or their perception of it, anyway. A new paper written by 51ԹϺ Professor of Psychology James Hyman and published recently in Current Biology shows that the way people experience time has less to do with the physical hands of a clock, and more to do with the number of experiences in that given period of time.
Inner speaking, inner seeing, feelings, sensory awareness, unsymbolized thinking. Do we all have the same inner experiences? And how aware are we of what we actually experience from moment to moment?
What did it take for Allie Wilson to make her first Olympic team? If you ask her, it wasn’t a physical breakthrough on the track—it was the work she’s been doing “upstairs.”
We often think our brains tick away time in perfect synchronization with the clocks on our walls and electronic devices. However, groundbreaking research published in the journal Current Biology provides evidence that our perception of time is not governed by an internal clock but by the number of experiences we have. This study found that changes in brain activity patterns, specifically in the anterior cingulate cortex, indicate that our brains track the passage of time based on the accumulation of experiences rather than a steady internal clock.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ rapid rise to the top of Democratic ticket hasn’t just reset the 2024 presidential election — it may have disrupted the battle over the Senate majority taking place in the West. Nevada, Arizona and Montana are three of a handful of “toss-up” Senate seats Democrats are defending to retain a majority in Congress’ upper chamber where they currently govern with 51 seats compared to Republicans’ 49.
With the November election in mind, one question is particularly salient: What are Donald Trump's plans for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? The fate of this central pillar of U.S. health policy is of interest to millions of Americans. Although Trump tried several times to weaken the ACA during his first term, he has now promised to make the ACA "much better, stronger and far less expensive" if he wins again.
As we close in on the November election, there’s a lot of talk about what exactly Donald Trump’s policy plans are. One area that’s especially interesting to millions of Americans is the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a cornerstone of healthcare policy in the United States.
Our brain measures time by counting experiences, not by following a strict chronological order. A new study by a team of 51ԹϺ researchers suggests that there’s a lot of truth to the trope “time flies when you’re having fun.” In their study, recently published in the journal Current Biology, the researchers discovered that our perception of time is based on the number of experiences we have, not on an internal clock. Additionally, they found that increasing speed or output during an activity appears to affect how our brains perceive time.
Our brain measures time by counting experiences, not by following a strict chronological order. A new study by a team of 51ԹϺ researchers suggests there's a lot of truth in the adage that "time flies when you're having fun."
Have you ever heard the old saying that time flies when you're having fun? A new study by a team of 51ԹϺ researchers suggests there's a lot of truth to that saying. Many people think their brains are intrinsically synchronized with the clocks on their wrists or cell phones that count time in very specific, minute-by-minute increments. But the study , published in Cell Press's peer-reviewed journal Current Biology , showed that our brains don't work that way.
When news broke that Francine Pascal, creator of the “Sweet Valley High” universe, died last weekend at the age of 92, appreciations began rolling across the internet like a certain red Spider through a high school parking lot. “Wildly popular,” “staple of my girlhood,” “G.O.A.T. of publishing,” readers proclaimed. Nostalgic and bereaved, I drove to the library to check out a few, only to discover they had been removed from the catalog.