{"id":3679,"date":"2015-06-22T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2015-06-24T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:35:31","slug":"trending-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2015\/06\/trending-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cConformity is &#8216;doubly hard&#8217; to beat\u2014it can obviously happen when people imitate one another, but it can also set in even when folks are trying to be distinct.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>3\/4\/15, DISCOVERY<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Joshua Epstein,<\/strong> a mathematical scientist and a member of the Whiting School\u2019s Institute for Computational Medicine, who developed a new model to measure conformity that allows for people wanting to be a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u201cWe need to study the blueprints, the scaffolding, the construction and the mistakes\u2014not just the final building.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>5\/28\/15, Adweek<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Avi Rubin,<\/strong> director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, on how the Smithsonian Institution should select modern tech devices to collect for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat nags me is that all of nature is self-assembled.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>1\/27\/14, Cosmos Magazine<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>David Gracias,<\/strong> the Russell Croft Faculty Scholar and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, explaining that engineers now are looking to complex natural processes\u2014such as a tadpole turning its gills into lungs in a single day\u2014as models for efforts to speed up the manufacturing of microscopic 3-D devices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u201cAre they noticing it? 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