If you’re a Hillsdale student, chances are high you’ve been asked what your Enneagram type is. Although the Enneagram—a personality test based on nine different personality types—is popular among Hillsdale students, personality tests as a whole are a good conversation starter, Assistant Professor of Psychology Benjamin Winegard said. Other well-known tests include Myers-Briggs, Big Five,...
TikTok, the app taking popular culture by storm, is the fastest growing social media platform with around 800 million active users. Despite being a mere five years old, the president of the free world has referenced the app on more than one occasion. How did TikTok become so popular? TikTok is addictive. And young people...
GameStop Corp. (GME) made headlines last week after a wild week in the stock market. Shares rose 1,625% in the month of January to $325 per share. That parabolic rise intensified last week and hurt hedge funds like Melvin Capital, who had a large short position on GME. Melvin lost 53% in January on their...
After multiple decades of work and research, Professor of Biology Anthony Swinehart has discovered a new species of hickory tree, the carya pipecreekensis. Along with this discovery comes proof for a significant spatio-temporal range extension of Ginkgophyta (a division of gymnosperms that includes the maidenhair tree and its extinct relatives) in North America. The discovery...
After a year like 2020, it can feel like the world is transforming into a gigantic Black Mirror episode. That inkling could very well be a reality, thanks to a recent Microsoft patent. In December 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent which details a process of creating a chatbot based...