Dreams, Dracula and Creativity

Great ideas sometimes come from a good sleep – a dream, or even the period between wakefulness and sleep.

It's Halloween, and a good time to note the mysterious way that we're sometimes inspired during dreams and semi-sleep. In fact you can credit ...

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Is "Paranormal" the new normal?

Scene from the creepy, intense "Paranormal Activity."


News accounts suggest that the spooky new thriller “Paranormal Activity” is on track to become one of the year’s most profitable films because ticket sales are strong and the movie cost only ...

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Quick tour of sociology

Melinda Messineo, associate professor of sociology, gave us a short course in her discipline, from social class to structural functionalism and symbolic interactionism.

Augusta Comte helped found the study of sociology, believing that scholars ...

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Further your affiant sayeth not

Billions of written text and email messages aside, the Web looks to be bad for the printed word.

Multimedia, video, interactive graphics get all the attention. Books, if they're mentioned at all, are usually discussed in the context of some tech ...

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Born to be Mild