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Featured An Online Ph.D: Huberman Lab and Lex Fridman Podcasts: Rating, Reviewing, and Scientifically Assessing Scientific Podcasts (650+ episodes, 1500+ hours)

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Sean McCracken,  Timothy Kutcher  

While obtaining my Ph.D, I have watched and rated all episodes of the Huberman Lab and Lex Fridman Podcasts. The value of these conversations with top scientists and thinkers in the world (and a small number of solo lectures from Huberman) is incredibly immense. These episodes provide listeners confidence, courage, and power to ask questions and obtain significant scientific-based growth. However, due to the large number of podcasts and difficulties finding relevant or interesting episodes, getting started as an outsider and knowing where to go to get the most value--both from an entertainment and learning perspective, is almost impossible. I have complied (albeit somewhat subjective) data as a 'Rating' (1-10, 10 being the 'best podcast ever', 1 being worst--Rating to 1 decimal point) for all podcasts, and a review to justify the rating. I have grouped podcasts based on topic, for example: Neuroscience, Medicine, Biology, Fitness, Nutrition, Physics, Psychology, ect, and collected lists and rankings of relevant podcasts for each category. For someone not familiar with the podcasts, I have determined 'Top 10', and 'Top 50', podcasts as a great place for people to start and not get discouraged by listening to a 'bad' episode. I have also compared my subjective ranking to objective view counts (from youtube) in order to determine 'underrated' (low views, high rating) and 'overrated' (high views, low rating) podcasts. This work will be a significant resource for scientists, especially young persons and those newer to science, to engage with scientific podcasts and leading scientists.

From Letters to Layers: Exploring Typographic Form Through Surface Pattern Design

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Anna Jordan  

This poster shares a case study of “Typo/Graphic Pattern,” a typography workshop I developed to help intro-level design students see type not just as linguistic content, but as formal material. In early typography education, students often struggle to recognize letterforms as shapes composed of form and counterform, rather than as familiar symbols they've read their entire lives. This workshop addresses that challenge by guiding students through the process of designing abstract, repeating patterns using only letterform shapes. Surface pattern design becomes a tool to cultivate visual sensitivity and typographic awareness. Students begin by examining examples of type-based pattern work from designers such as Zuzana Licko, Marian Bantjes, and Michael Bierut. Then we go hands-on: with scissors, tape, and paper, students create analog pattern blocks using typographic collage materials. This playful, tactile phase builds awareness of structure, rhythm, and composition. Students then digitize their collages in Illustrator, refining them into precise black-and-white vector patterns. In the final phase, they apply their designs to Photoshop mockups of 3D surfaces like textiles, packaging, or architecture. Throughout, students engage in critique and iteration—learning to see type not just as language, but as raw design material. They build technical skills, conceptual fluency, and confidence. This poster outlines the workshop’s pedagogical structure, shares student examples, and reflects on outcomes observed by faculty and participants. “Typo/Graphic Pattern” is an adaptable, scalable teaching model that reframes typography as both a foundational skill and an expressive design practice.

Electronic Shifting and Mechanical Nostalgia: Cycling’s Digital Dialectic in the Media

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Damian Rivers  

Shifts in media consumption and interface design permeate societal divides, including sport. In contemporary cycling, the digitalisation of drivetrain control—exemplified by electronic shifting systems such as Shimano Di2, SRAM AXS, and Campagnolo EPS—has replaced mechanical cables with software-mediated wireless protocols. These systems promise a friction-free user experience in which firmware substitutes for cables and data packets supplant tactile clicks. Yet the same digital networks that promote progress foster a resurgent nostalgia for mechanical drivetrains. This study investigates how social-media platforms, magazines, podcasts, and YouTube channels narrate the transition from analogue to digital shifting as liberation and loss. Drawing on observation and rider testimony, it maps the discursive negotiations through which cyclists position themselves vis-à-vis innovation, authenticity, and identity. Advocates emphasise heightened precision, self-calibrating accuracy, minimalist cockpits, and seamless integration with head units and training applications. Critics counter with stories of depleted batteries, proprietary lock-in, and the erosion of a craft tradition in which riders tuned each gear by hand. Nostalgia, like aesthetic appeal, is thus performative as well as rhetorical. By situating electronic shifting within a broader ecology of digital media, the poster shows that technological adoption in sport is not a linear march toward progress, but a dialectical process in which convenience co-evolves with a longing for embodied skill and material simplicity.

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