By Jim Gubbins
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

“What is a good life?”
Isn’t that a big, wonderful question? Isn’t that the question we should all be asking ourselves?
I strongly suspect that unless we have wandered into a philosophy class, we are not asking that question, nor will we find that question dominating the Blogosphere, Facebook, Twitter, or the [...]

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By David Gow
Psychology Department
Undergraduates Heidi Kien and Sarah Luong have been editing digital sound files—a lot of digital sound files. It is not particularly glamorous work. These files will serve as stimuli for an NIH-funded study into the biological and psychological mechanisms that allow listeners to adapt to and understand accented speech. Like most basic [...]

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