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How do metaphors and analogies work? What makes a good metaphor?

Spring 2025 Visual SciComm Seminar Join us for this virtual speaker series on a wide range of topics related to visual scientific communication. The Spring series will take place on Fridays (see each...

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At Yale Livable City Lab we use large geospatial datasets and new technologies to study how the design and planning or urban environments impact human behavior and sustainability.

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What branding can teach us about making science captivating

Conversation is a primary means of social influence, but its effects on the brain aren’t well-understood. Here, the authors find evidence that people who are central in their social networks facilitat...

To find out what happens in our brains when we come to consensus, we designed an experiment, and we discovered something remarkable. This video is based on a research paper: Consensus-building conversation leads to neural alignment, published in Nature Communications in 2024 Researchers: Beau Sievers, Christopher Welker, Uri Hasson, Adam M. Kleinbaum, Thalia Wheatley Video production: Louis Charron, Janès Zabukovec, Thomas Deis, Beau Sievers © Consortium for Interacting Minds, Dartmouth, 2024

Can we defend pursuing beauty when communicating science or innovation?

FLATBURN: the open source city scannerhttps://senseable.mit.edu/flatburnFLATBURN is an open-source, low-cost, solar-powered sensing platform designed to moni...