A Thousand Paper Cranes
By Rona Wang, November 16, 2018
"Legend states that anyone who folds a thousand cranes will have a wish fulfilled by the gods, and she wants to live."
The Escalator from Delivery Room to Operating Room
By Laura Liao, October 30, 2018
"Almost one in every three births in the U.S. in 2016 were by C‐section."
A Child of Chemistry and Cuisine
By Jennah Haque, October 21, 2018
"Umami can be a total gastronomic Rubik’s Cube when we think about its origins and where it’s headed."
Binary Oppositions
By Catherine Yang, April 25, 2018
"The way language functions shows the necessity of at least one set of oppositions in order to define an object."
Book Review: Proof: The Science of Booze
By David Bustillos, April 15, 2018
In the United States, we live in what anthropologists Craig MacAndrew and Robert Edgerton called a “‘confused culture’ … where alcohol [is] sometimes prohibited and sometimes lionized.” Expert American satirists and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone sum up the confusion in a hilarious…
We’re All Mad Here (in Building 2)
By Michelle Xu, March 27, 2018
"Nothing in Wonderland can or ought to be taken at face value."
A Cup of Chemistry
By Karina Hinojosa, March 13, 2018
"Coffee is so deeply integrated in our societies it has become what’s often called the world’s most popular psychoactive drug."
Sol Lewitt and His Coded Art
By Catherine Yang, March 5, 2018
Art is often thought of as driven by creativity and interpreted through the expression of emotions. Coding, on the other hand, is always quantized by the number of lines, and then compiled without much allowance of errors or freedom. However, there was one artist who combined the two opposites and…
Antibiotics in Your Angus
By Katie Gravel, February 26, 2018
"We often take the power of antibiotics for granted. What if one day we couldn’t use them anymore?"
Rain, Rain, Go Away, Ache My Joints Another Day
By Sophie Cohen, February 18, 2018
"It’s 9 a.m., and your alarm rings. Pulling up the blinds, you look outside to see big droplets of rain falling."
Calm Before the Swarm
By Austin Wu, February 11, 2018
"On Jan. 5, 2017, the first recorded drone swarm attack was conducted against Russian forces in Syria."
The New Reality for Education?
By Chelsea Ajunwa, February 4, 2018
"VR provides a new dimension to an age-old experience."
“Fly”-ing Towards Immortality
By Deepankar Gupta, January 28, 2018
"Immortality has long fascinated mankind."
McIntoshes, McDonald’s, and Our Changing Landscape
By Chloe Yang, January 21, 2018
"Think of an apple. Now think of the McDonald’s menu."
Chemist versus Chemist: the US Prohibition Experiment
By Michelle Xu, January 14, 2018
"Applied chemistry faced a rough time in the early 20th century."
Lacan and His Mobius Strip
By Catherine Yang, January 7, 2018
"Psychoanalysis has been interested in proving the paradoxical cohesive and hybrid nature of binary oppositions."
The World is Your Lab Experiment
By Henrik Boecken, January 7, 2018
"Since it’s politically infeasible (and a logistical nightmare) to randomly choose people to, say, receive the minimum wage, economists simply can’t run experiments like other scientists."
Those Who Wander Mapless
By Rona Wang, January 7, 2018
"New Zealand was blue-green, lusher than dreams, and muggy enough to hint at an impending December summer."