It started with a marble setting off a mouse trap. Step by step, the contraption made out of a chair, cardboard, and a number of household objects unwound until it reached its goal – a paper cutout of a hand high-fiving one of the team members. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students formed the Avengineering Club in the spring after competing in a Rube Goldberg machine competition, hosted by the national engineering honor society at UCLA. The club’s members plan to create a variety of engineering projects such as 3D printers, miniature blimps and catapults.

Delving into the mind of a psychopath and contemplating the evolution of the human psyche are both items on the syllabus for a new Fiat Lux seminar available this fall. Read more...

Photo: Professor Joseph Manson will teach a new Fiat Lux seminar on how psychological traits can be explained through evolution.

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. David Shorter realized more research needed to be done on hallucinogenic plants when he befriended the Yoeme tribe in Mexico in the early 1990s. Read more...

Healthy eating for Eve Lahijani means having a cookie every now and then. Lahijani, a nutrition health educator at the Bruin Resource Center is one of two people who teach the fiat lux, “Cosmo Says You’re Fat? Read more...

Photo: Health educator Eve Lahijani will teach a Fiat Lux about body image and eating disorders this fall.