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If you can understand pizza and poker, you can understand Bitcoin – and David Noble believes you should. (Illustration by Andrew Colin Beck for UConn)

Bitcoin Believers

If you can understand pizza and poker, you can understand Bitcoin – and here's why you should.

Synchrony Keeps the Beat

UConn neuroscientist Ed Large built a model of the brain that can predict the future. And then he taught it to dance.

Percentages of Connecticut's land surface in 2015. (Graphic by Maxine Marcy for UConn)

Preserving Green Spaces in Connecticut’s Changing Landscape

Smart land use management is critical in order to preserve open space, says extension educator Chester Arnold. 'It isn’t something we can go back and fix later on.'

Taking a Page from the Swing Journal

Over the years, students and visitors alike have filled dozens of “swing journals” with mostly anonymous contemplations, words of encouragement, jokes, stories, and confessions.

Construction along Hillside Road on Aug. 3, 2018. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Construction Update, August 2018

What to expect this month on the Storrs campus in terms of construction and detours.

UConn composer Kenneth Fuchs, a professor of music, records his latest album 'Spiritualist' with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Abbey Road Studios in London.

London Symphony Orchestra Records Fifth CD by Kenneth Fuchs

Listen to Kenneth Fuch's interview about the classical compendium 'Spiritualist – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra,' released in August.

Close-Up marble statue of the Great Greek philosopher Socrates. (Getty Images)

Know Thyself: The Philosophy of Self-Knowledge

Dating back to an ancient Greek inscription, the injunction to 'know thyself' has encouraged people to engage in a search for self-understanding. Philosophy professor Mitchell Green discusses its history and relevance to the present.

Young male college students studying. (Getty Images)

Op-ed: Rethink Peer Tutoring by Gifted Learners

Catherine Little of UConn's Neag School of Education says the 'help so-and-so' strategy to keep gifted students busy in the classroom often has limited benefit to the peer tutors.

Syringes scattered on a litter strewn pavement. (Getty Images)

Op-ed: I See What Heroin Does. Let People Shoot Up Safely

An emergency medical services coordinator at UConn John Dempsey Hospital, and paramedic in Hartford, explains why he advocates the safe-house model for heroin users.

Peyman Zamani '95 (ENG), '06 MBA, CEO of Logicbroker Inc. (Nathan Oldham/UConn Photo)

Alum’s E-Commerce Company Ensures Online Orders Arrive On Time and Intact

Peyton Zamani learned from his two degrees and multiple work experiences in setting up his own successful company.