As stock markets plunge, travel is disrupted and new coronavirus infections are diagnosed across the United States, one question on everyone’s mind is how the outbreak is going to end. No one knows for sure, but virologists say there are clues from similar outbreaks. Health officials control coronavirus through strict public health […]
What Students need to know about how COVID-19 affects college admissions
As the stock market tumbles and more and more countries extend lockdowns, traditional institutions are disrupted. College admissions for this admissions cycle and the ones after will be drastically altered. This is how you can adapt to cancelled extracurriculars and tests. For high school seniors and other applicants awaiting decisions: […]
How COVID-19 Affects India’s Aviation Market
The coronavirus is causing a substantial slowdown in the aviation market, with India feeling the effects this week. With the government pulling out all the stops to make the airline as profitable as possible, could this put a damper on the efforts? How will the virus affect the airline? India […]
Universal Basic Income, an Idea for Now?
Universal Basic Income has been brought back into the limelight because of the $1200 COVID-19 relief check. Is UBI a good system?
Teens Rise Up To The Coronavirus
During these times of isolation, all groups of all types are rising up to take action. Teens, especially, have shown what they can accomplish against the Coronavirus. Among other things, they are fundraising, creating masks for health care workers and researching the virus itself. With the US leading the number […]
Martial Law during a State of Emergency: What Does it Mean?
Amidst the Coronavirus outbreak, most people’s main concerns remain stockpiling adequate resources, practicing social distancing, and staying within the safety of their homes. Very few citizens, however, consider that the consequences of coronavirus can extend past the idea of personal safety from disease. With President Trump’s declaration of a state […]
The False Paradigms of Innovation
Innovation According to Fiction In the winter of 1865, in a stately room decorated from the floor to ceiling with paintings and paraphernalia observing the recently concluded Civil War, four men sat in armchairs by a raging fire. Their arguments were no less heated, for these grizzled men were debating […]
How the Coronavirus is Negatively Impacting Education
COVID-19 has had an unforeseen impact on education. What steps should students and educators take next?
Gattaca in Real Life: Gene Drives and CRISPR
Introduction to Gene Drives Is having a weighted die cheating in Yahtzee? If you could ensure that you’d always get a four-in-the-row, would you capitalize on the opportunity, even if it’s immoral? Anthony James of UC Irvine and his team of biologists have been toying with this dilemma. In Summer […]
What are the Geopolitical Implications of the Coronavirus?
The political dynamics of Washington in recent years have been like an ’80s aerobics routine: full of thrashing and contortions, but with little actual movement. An endless succession of pseudo-“bombshells,” frenzied two-week scandals, and Twitter rampages created a jaded intensity — the perfect spectacle for the smartphone era. But the past […]