The Amazon rainforest is a vast jungle of exotic plants and animals that produces over 20% of the world’s oxygen, absorbs over 2.2 billion tons of CO2 every year and is going to make profit…
Ghostwriters for Hire
Recent investigation demonstrates the ease with which students can beat plagiarism-detection software Congratulations! You did it; you have made it through the last day of classes and are now preparing for finals. Soon, final grades…
Five Disruptive Innovations in Medical Technology: Takeaways from…
Recent innovations in medical technology are changing medicine as we know it. At the recent Women Designing the Future Conference, three women in STEM – Colleen Riley, Tara Alvarez, and Amy Liao – spoke about…
One Dead, Three Injured in Synagogue Shooting
At 11:23 AM this past Saturday, the last day of Passover—the week-long Jewish holiday that commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people—a gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in California, north of San Diego.…
Vietnamese Grocery Wrappers are Bananas
A stroll through the aisles of produce in a supermarket in Southeast Asia quickly reveals the vast differences between the food profile of the region compared to the United States. The unfamiliar sights in a…
Brexit: What’s the Tea?
As Americans, the issue of Brexit may seem like a daunting and confusing mess of political webs, few of which seem recognizable to us across the Atlantic. However, the outcome of Brexit may very well…
Black Hole Finally Photographed
On April 10, 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the first ever image of a black hole. Specifically, the Messier 87 black hole in the galaxy Virgo A was imaged. The image was created…
WikiLeaks Founder Arrested in London
On April 11 Julian Assange, an Australian computer programmer and founder of the international freedom of information group WikiLeaks, was arrested in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by the Metropolitan Police. Assange has been living…
Notre Dame Burns
On Monday, April 15, thousands of people around the world watched helplessly as strands of fire wrapped around the spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and smoke billowed to the heavens. The Notre…