Author: Amelie Zahoruk
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What’s Inside? Non-Destructive Analysis with XRD and XRF
In archaeology, material characterization is often fundamental to identification and appraisal of artifacts. For example, authenticity assessments of Chinese jade requires confirmation of both mineral composition and microstructure to ensure the correct makeup of tremolite and actinolite (Zhang et al. 2020). However, commonly-used analytical techniques, such as chromatography, require destruction of the sample, which is…
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Bytes and Brains: Exploring Shifts in Human Cognitive Processes in the Internet Age
There is no question that the Internet was the single most impactful technological invention of the past century. Our constant usage of the Internet has fundamentally altered our memory processing and analytical cognition, such that us “Digital Natives” consume knowledge in completely different ways than previous generations (Loh and Kanai, 2016). The symbiosis of humans…