On a Thursday night, the Chicago Recovery Alliance’s silver van parks on California Avenue in Humboldt Park. Here, sterile needles, cotton and tourniquets are doled out to any registered community member. The nonprofit offer tips on how to safely inject drugs and avoid overdoses. Though it is supported by a number of HIV [...]

A new technology that simulates traffic flow is keeping Chicagoans safer.

A look at traffic flow during rush hour gives scientists at Argonne National Laboratory an idea what emergency evacuations look like. Argonne is a U.S. Department of Energy research and engineering lab. The lab develop systems like the one shown here to calculate [...]

It’s one thing to understand the expressions of individuals; it’s another to decipher the tone of an entire nation.  America as a country has gone through a gamut of emotions, particularly in the last decade.  From 9/11 to President Obama’s election, the  public has experienced fear, hope and all the emotions in between.  Click below [...]

Dan Hill is the founder and president of Sensory Logic, a company that helps individuals and companies measure and manage emotions through eye tracking and facial coding
Hill teaches Dr. Paul Ekman’s seven main emotions found cross culturally. Hill’s book, “Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success,” gives a crash course on facial coding.