today i learned (til)
Neural Links: The Road to Real-Life Telepathy
Pssst... you... yes you... Can you hear me?
You hear someone speak to you, but nobody is around. What if that was your reality? Being...
Mind Over Matter: How Brain Implants Are Making Telekinesis Real
Imagine a world where you can move objects and complete tasks simply by thinking about them. Sounds like a pretty relaxing and too-good-to-be-true idea,...
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and the Protection of Sensitive Genetic Data
In today's data-driven world, few forms of personal information are as personal and revealing as genetic information. Genetic sequencing has become more widely available...
Benefits of Composting: why you should start composting now!
There is less than 5% of residential food waste that is currently being composted around the world. To be exact, about 3.7% as of...
Hidden Figures Beyond: Alexa Canady, the First African-American Neurosurgeon
This article will be the first of a series of articles I hope to continue called Hidden Figures Beyond. The goal of this series...
Understanding the Use of CRISPR in Humans
CRISPR, an anacronym that stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” is a concept becoming quite ubiquitous in most biology classes and rapidly...
I don’t know it when I see one
In Fig. 1, which line is longer?
Our eyes will tell us that the first line seems longer than the second, but in fact two...
Atlanta’s growth is Hurting the Environment
The city of Atlanta is constantly growing. With new apartment complexes, new buildings and more companies coming to the city, the metropolitan of Atlanta...
Are Sunscreen products reliable?
What?
Sunscreens contain diverse active ingredients. Some use the inert inorganic mineral pigment, such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, primarily to reflect or scatter...
An Egg-istential Question
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
A classic philosophical conundrum, intentionally baffling and likely argument-provoking.
“You need a chicken to lay an egg, but...