On October 23, 2011, my dad, Robert Terrence Weathersby, passed away from a 5-year battle with cancer just a week shy of his 59th birthday. He was a professor of psychology at Eastern University, a...
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The Urban Farm Manifesto is a 20-page comic-zine with essay elements that chronicles some of my surreal experiences during the last three years of growing in the wilds of western Cleveland; and then...
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With a focus on young women, Your Veil is a Battleground looks at the lives of Iranian youth.
In summer 2010, I made a trip back to Iran to work on a project on immigrating teenagers. While I was in...
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Chris Anderson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida. He loves reptiles and amphibians and for his dissertation, Chris is studying the effect...
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We began exploring crowdfunding research when we were contacted by a number of crowdfunding companies following the release of our research report on microtasking (another field of crowdsourcing); they...
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XELLE (pronounced "excel") is a pop girl group with a twist. XELLE is made up of two girls and a drag queen, and is taking the pop world by storm. The group's first music video, for its smash debut...
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In Montauk is a narrative feature film about pregnant photographer Julie, who's on the cusp of artistic success. While in Montauk to take photos for an upcoming show, she meets Christian, a composer...
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For the past year I have been a stay at home mom. While it's been an incredibly experience, it's also been very isolating. I haven't been writing, I've been living off cereal, and my opportunities for...
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She and the sun are the brother/sister musical duo of Melissa Ahern and Andy Stack.The two have recently joined forces to write songs, play instruments and make musical tracks. All the sounds and production...
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While visiting a grade 4 classroom in 2005, I did an impromptu “nasty” thing. I challenged the students with an unsolved problem of mathematics from 1937 and asked them to solve it. I didn't tell them...
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