IT Updates

Some bad news for the handful of people who know what LastPass is, and the fewer who actually use the school’s LastPass membership: the school will be cancelling its membership on Nov. 9. For those unacquainted with the service, LastPass is an encrypted password manager that can create and store strong passwords for all of […]

Dr. Grienberger’s Lab on the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuit

Brandeis’ reputation as an R1 research institution is what attracts so many of the university’s STEM students. A reason that Brandeis is able to offer such research opportunities is due to the numerous faculty-run laboratories that occur on campus, one of which just received a $1.35 million dollar grant (see our News section). Another fascinating […]

There is no ‘Jewish Christmas,’ but there might be a ‘Jewish Halloween’

The wider American celebration for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is nice, but the holiday actually happens to be relatively unimportant. I think that most people would attribute the awareness non-Jewish people have of Hanukkah to the comparison people draw to Christmas. People see that Hanukkah is a winter holiday where we give gifts and […]

Notes on ‘Notes on Complexity’

I was recently gifted a copy of Neil Theise’s “Notes on Complexity,” and I found that everything in this book was new to me. I read the back, saw it was a discussion about complexity theory, and thought it was a basic and uninteresting idea to write about. My own understanding of complexity theory was […]

More than a library

More than a library Everybody knows that the library has way more than archival books. It’s a great study spot. It has great coffee. It’s got okay printers. But there is so much more than just the tables in Farber. Even more than just hosting the Writing Center and IT desk. In my search for […]