I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets Peter Christensen, The Conversation Arts & Culture, Society & Culture, Uncategorized About a decade ago, a modest update to Apple’s iPhoto software showed me a new way to study architectural history. The February 2009 update added facial recognition, allowing users to tag friends and loved...
Communities First: A Profile of Janette Robinson Flint UCLA Center for the Study of Women Uncategorized by Jana Gowan This post is part of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women's Chemical Entanglements series. Black Women for Wellness (BWW) is a grassroots non-profit working throughout South LA. Their...
Hippo Contributor Celeste Ng’s New Novel Named Best Book of 2014 by Amazon Hippo Reads Staff News, Uncategorized Congrats to Hippo contributor Celeste Ng. Her new novel, a literary thriller, Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Press), was named the 2014 Best Book of the Year by Amazon and made The New York...
Why Adjuncts Need More Than Solidarity Gordon Haber Uncategorized Part-time faculty now make up the majority of the U.S.’s academic workforce. What does this mean for higher education? In this adapted blog post, author and teacher Gordon Haber continues the conversation around this question.
The Best “Smart” Beach Reads of 2014: Edition #3 Kaitlin Solimine Uncategorized How to know what pages this summer make the sunscreen-slathered cut and which will stay on bookshelves? Hippo Reads is here to make recommendations for the smartest, and most engaging, summer reads in science, social science, and religion.
The Best “Smart” Beach Reads of 2014: Edition #2 Kaitlin Solimine Uncategorized How to know what pages this summer make the sunscreen-slathered cut and which will stay on bookshelves? Hippo Reads is here to make recommendations for the smartest, and most engaging, summer reads in economics, government, and history.
Six Reasons Why Humanity Is Doomed When The Robots Revolt Benjamin Smolen and Nikolai von Keller Uncategorized The inaugural launch of HippoCrite, our humor page — a humorous slant on smart topics. Here we explore the impending robot revolution.
