– Shuang My friend Candy lives in Boston with her husband. In Boston, she met many friends from all over the world. Here is a story she shared in her WeChat post: Last weekend, my friend brought some Indian spices to my place, and cooked authentic Indian food for us. After we commented on the so-called
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– Alisha There’s a concept called psychological essentialism, which is a tool we use to reason about the world. There are three tenants to psychological essentialism: Certain categories are real and only discovered by humans- that is, they are not human constructs, but facts of nature. Some unobservable property causes a group of things to
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– Dandi After finishing my last course at university this year I left for vacation immediately to Japan. By the end of my trip, I totally got myself obsessed over the gacha machines. What is a gacha machine? Oh, let me tell you all about it! gacha machine is a machine that dispenses capsuled toys.
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– Reeda “Wait? You don’t have an office you go to like everyday?” That’s one question I got a lot when I started my time as the Institute’s new Social Media Coordinator just a few weeks ago. And it’s true, that while we may not have a typical office that we go to week after
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