by Michael | Apr 11, 2014 | Lab News, Popular Science
By Michael Kasumovic Males will mate with anything. Well, that is the general view, one that exists because of a simple biological underpinning: females are reproductively limited by costly gestation, while males are only limited by their number of partners. As a...
by Michael | Dec 17, 2013 | Popular Science
By Michael Kasumovic Your team is decimated. You’re surrounded by zombies. And they’re closing in. Normally, you lean forward, turn off your console, step away and play again once you’ve had the opportunity to regroup. But you can’t. Because this isn’t a video game....
by Michael | Dec 10, 2013 | Popular Science
By Steven Hamblin; Michael Kasumovic, and Rob Brooks With each passing year, technology percolates further into academic life. The year 2013 might look, in hindsight, like the year academic social media use went mainstream. Numbers of tweets and Facebook likes are no...
by Michael | Aug 7, 2013 | Popular Science
By Michael Kasumovic Jumping spiders are unique in the spider world as they don’t build webs – they’re active visual predators who rarely use silk. In fact, the main use we thought jumping spiders had for silk was a safety line for when they miss their mark. But...
by Michael | Jun 4, 2013 | Popular Science
By Michael Kasumovic Is racism a matter of perspective gone wrong? And, if so, how can we fix it? A new study in Consciousness and Cognition demonstrates technology may be able to offer part of the solution: donning the skin of a dark-skinned avatar significantly...
by Michael | Mar 8, 2013 | Lab News, Popular Science
I was lucky enough to be profiled by COMOS magazine for their 50th issue! Thanks to the UNSW newsroom for pointing them in my direction. Hopefully I’ll end up on this part of the site...
