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A Skillet, Some Eggs, and a Story of Migration
I didn’t know what shakshuka was until my partner moved to Boston and convinced me to try a bite during brunch one weekend when...
Psychology’s Replication Crisis
One of the cornerstones of modern science is the criterion of replicability. Replicability is the idea that if a phenomenon is real, it should...
Why do I sneeze when I step out into the sun?
Have you ever stepped out into the sun after a long day of sitting inside and suddenly felt the urge to sneeze?
Usually, sneezing is...
Monkey to Macbook – The expedited progression of the human race
Within the past 200,000 years, modern humans began to appear. Though it took thousands of years to get to the Industrial Revolution, since then,...
An Infinitely Dimensional Orange: A Slice of Machine Learning
What does the Pythagorean Theorem have to do with machine learning? The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula to measure the hypotenuse of a triangle,...
‘IN Synch
Written by: Lauren Mellinger and Julia Raver
Every girl knows what it feels like during “that time of the month” – bad cramps, mood swings,...
Did the Covid Pandemic shock you? The next one is right...
Do you remember those early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Schools were shut down. Zoom meetings were the norm. Graduation parties, birthdays, and weddings...
The Science of Plan B
After Roe v. Wade was overturned this past summer, I saw a spark of online discussions about access to birth control, as well as...
The Sepsis Umbrella
When most people hear the diagnosis of sepsis, they think of one of two things: oh my god or…what the heck is that? However,...