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Nanoparticles against Coronavirus

Can Soluble ACE2 Provide Total Protection from COVID-19?

How do coronaviruses infect your body? SARS-CoV-2, like SARS-CoV and several other coronaviruses, uses angiotensin converting enzyme 2...

Alevtina Studenikina

Mar 23, 2022

Breathing In Your Vaccine

When you think about vaccines these days, you most likely picture someone getting a shot. Yet, SARS-CoV-2 enters our body through the...

Alevtina Studenikina

Nov 22, 2021

More Coronaviruses? How Dodecahedral Nanoparticles Can Protect Us

There may be more coronavirus outbreaks in the future. How can we protect ourselves? The answer may lie in dodecahedral nanoparticles.

Alevtina Studenikina

Jun 10, 2021

Frontiers of Drug Development

Inclisiran and the Promise of siRNA

What if, instead of taking medicine daily, treatment could be easily administered only once or twice a year? For many patients with high...

PROTACs Show Promise Combating Cancer

What are some of the key molecular players in cancer? What new drugs are currently showing promise in fighting cancer?

Sleep and Society

Are You Tired of Being Lonely?

The sleep deficit epidemic and increasing loneliness in the U.S. may be more interconnected than previously thought. Loneliness and...

Alanna Dorsey

Mar 23, 2022

Social Jet Lag: The Hidden Cause of Bad Grades

Why are you getting bad grades? Turns out staying up at night to finish your essay may not be the best way to improve your grades.

Alanna Dorsey

Jul 8, 2021

Sleep and Society: Podcast

How does sleep affect your everyday life and the people around you? Join Alanna Dorsey (Stanford University '23) and Sophia Zheng...

Alanna Dorsey

May 6, 2021

Frontiers of Drug Development

Inclisiran and the Promise of siRNA

What if, instead of taking medicine daily, treatment could be easily administered only once or twice a year? For many patients with high...

PROTACs Show Promise Combating Cancer

What are some of the key molecular players in cancer? What new drugs are currently showing promise in fighting cancer?

Media Choices and Implicit Prejudice

Sex Segregation in Schools

Maria Charles and Karen Bradley (2009) found evidence for sex segregation by field of study, particularly in advanced industrial...

Prejudice: What’s Up With That?

In our everyday lives, we are making implicit associations. Read on to find out the impact of prejudice on people’s perceptions of Arabs.

The Cognitive Role in Implicit Prejudice

How does the brain form prejudice? We take a look into the prejudice and its relation with cognitive associations.

Understanding Exploitation

Describing Exploitative and Extractive Systems

As outlined in previous articles, exploitation is taking advantage of someone’s vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities come from...

Natalie Chapman

Feb 10, 2022

Describing Exploitative and Extractive Systems

As outlined in previous articles, exploitation is taking advantage of someone’s vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities come from...

Natalie Chapman

Dec 9, 2021

Defining Needs: A Hierarchy

What are Needs? How do we define them?

Eli Shi

Jun 17, 2021

The Scars of a Kleptocratic Leviathan in the Congo

Mobutu and Leopold’s Shadow

"This is why on Nov. 24, 1965, the stupid struggle for influence in which political parties were engaged was ended… For five years, there...

The Congo Crisis

Despite the conquest of Belgium in 1940 by the Nazis, the Congolese continued to work, as their land was being used to fully fund the...

The Scars of a Kleptocratic Leviathan in the Congo

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes" --- Mark Twain December 17th, 1909. Brussels, Belgium: a king’s body lay lifeless....

How Identity Complicates the Role of Schools as an Equalizer of Inequality

Schools Fail to Support LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+ students are less able to extract the full benefits of schooling. Read more to find out why!

Minha Khan

Jun 7, 2021

The Impact of Socio-Economic Background on Schooling Opportunity

Is school the great equalizer of social inequities? Opportunities of schooling are significantly affected by socio-economic background.

Minha Khan

May 9, 2021

Recognizing Amerindian History

Our Younger Brothers: the American Horses

The cheeseburger is an iconic American food. Invented in the early 20th century in the American Heartland, it is a national fast food...

Christian A. Hernandez

Feb 10, 2022

A Conversation: The Colonizer and Non-Colonizer Way to Read the Wallum Olam

Was Homer real or not? Is the Bible a trustworthy text or a conspiracy filled with myths? You may have heard of these controversies, and...

Christian A. Hernandez

Dec 2, 2021

How Respect is Lost: How Mammoths become Monsters and Encounters become Myths

In the early 1900s, it was widely accepted that early Amerindian cultures had encountered mammoths and mastodons. However, it is still...

Christian A. Hernandez

Aug 3, 2021

Understanding COVID-19

Vaccines and Variants: What Do Variants Mean for Immunity?

Evolution is a natural process. In fact, the current form we occupy is due to natural evolution throughout many millenia. Although it...

Dante Dullas

Dec 6, 2021

How does COVID-19 work?

As many of us start to envision a post-pandemic world, there is still so much thought and scientific effort being poured into...

Dante Dullas

Aug 15, 2021

A New Way for Masks to Protect You from COVID-19

We all know that face coverings help reduce the transmission of COVID-19, but can masks actually boost your immune system too? Keep reading!

Dante Dullas

Apr 17, 2021

Mental Health + Illness: Definitions, History, Approaches

Understanding the Relationship Between Gut Bacteria and Mental Disorders

An expanding literature reveals that gut microbiota produce and modulate the production of neurotransmitters. These neurotransmitters,...

Sydney Lee

Mar 10, 2022

Are You Mentally Healthy?

Find out about your mental wellness by diving into a chapter of the Handbook of Positive Psychology by Corey L. M. Keyes!

Gillian Hilscher

May 1, 2021

Cancer, Stem Cells, and Therapy

Drugging the SARS-CoV-2 Genome

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, has killed millions and wreaked havoc on global economies. The enormity of the COVID pandemic...

New Method of Isolating Killer T-Cells For Cancer Treatment

The human immune system is one of our least understood physiological systems, second only to the brain in its sheer complexity. From...

Stem Cells—You Need Them More Than You Know

Let’s talk about stem cells. You may have heard of stem cells in the context of advanced scientific research, or in terms of being able...

Cryonics and Neuroscience

All Roads Lead to Aging

In 2013, López-Otín and a team of researchers published The Hallmarks of Aging based on the conceptual framework of “The Hallmarks of...

What Time Is It?

Every year, if we are fortunate enough, we get to spend our birthday with our loved ones. Although we become one year older, our bodies...

Upload Your Mind and Live Forever

The episode “San Junipero” of the British anthology series Black Mirror is described as one of “the best” (Meslow) and “most beautiful,...

The Debate over Reparations

Reparations Logistics: What Might It Look Like in Practice?

The logistics of issuing reparations are arguably more controversial than reparations themselves. Who should receive them? How should...

Elijah Benson

Oct 10, 2021

Arguments Against Reparations

Reparations should be viewed as a Black issue first and foremost, before being viewed as a universal American issue. With that being...

Elijah Benson

Oct 3, 2021

Understanding Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Argument for Reparations

What are reparations, and why are they necessary?

Elijah Benson

May 29, 2021

Political Efficacy

Effective Politics

We’re constantly being exposed to ads that vy for our attention, particularly during election cycles. But are these ads at all effective?

Matthew Canlas

Apr 29, 2021

Should We Have Open Borders? Immigration

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Alternatives to the Modern State through Mechanism Design

Utopia and Usurpation: A Brief History of Mechanism Design Gone Wrong

What is mechanism design and how do auctions work? Read on to find out more!

Soham Mehta

May 26, 2021

History of Debt

Who Owes What to Whom?

In 2008, most Americans thought the world order would collapse. By the end of the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the banks had failed and...

Josh Wagner

Mar 3, 2022

The Invention of Credit: A Historical View

While Modern Monetary Theory, leverage, and command-side economics might appear to be recent inventions of a hyper-globalized society,...

Josh Wagner

Oct 17, 2021

The Mythical Barter Economy

Contrary to popular belief, did we ever actually have a pure barter economy? Perhaps, there may have been other ways to organize economics.

Josh Wagner

May 11, 2021

The Novel and the Novelist

How Does an Author Create a Novel?

As the novel gained popularity, many philosophers, poets, and even filmmakers began to comment on the role that the author has in the...

Gabrielle Epuran

Mar 30, 2022

The Struggling Author

Authors and filmmakers have depicted the modern stereotypical “struggling author” in their films and stories for decades. From whence did...

Gabrielle Epuran

Feb 17, 2022

Who Were the First Novelists?

Interestingly enough, there is just as much debate over who the first novelists were as there is over where the novel came from. Just as...

Gabrielle Epuran

Aug 24, 2021

Conceptual Metaphors

The Other Side: Criticism of the Conceptual Metaphor

Like any novel cognitive theory, conceptual metaphors have their fair share of critics. Ranging from the theoretical basis of assuming...

Metaphor in Its Safe Haven: Poetry

Let’s now return the metaphor to its hometown: poetry. The interdisciplinary field of cognitive poetics arose in the 1990s as inspired by...

Metaphor in Gesture: How We All Act like Great Artists When We Speak

We move our hands a lot when we speak—in fact, about 55% of the information in personal communication is transmitted through body...

American Declinism

Facts and Fallacies of American Declinism

Though many years have passed since the Cold Wars, the question still remains—is the world, and particularly America, falling apart?