Although the NFL managed to get in all of its games without a single cancellation (just postponements), franchises are still projected to lose approximately $100 million in revenue each for a league wide total of $3-4 billion. Regular-season viewership fell 8% on average and Super Bowl advertising spots dropped in price […]
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How Close Are We To a Reliable COVID-19 Vaccine?
The COVID-19 vaccine is on track to become the fastest-developed vaccine in history, but that doesn’t mean critical steps are being skipped. Ruth Karron, who leads the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is one of the top vaccine experts in the world, serving on vaccine […]
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Why Does the “All Lives Matter” slogan hurt BLM?
The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks have not only served to reignite the Black Lives Matter movement, but also the furor at its most common rebuttal: “all lives matter.” The back and forth has been going on for seven years, and just last week, when pressed […]
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Are Antibiotics Becoming Useless Now?
An emerging problem in the healthcare world, that is typically overlooked, is the issue of viruses building immunity against common antibiotics. More and more cases of common illnesses are becoming dangerous because antibiotics are not working as effectively as they used to. “Common diseases are becoming untreatable.” That’s the blunt […]
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Is Trump Abusing His Power by Sending Troops West?
If President Donald Trump has his way, federal law enforcement agents like those in Portland, Oregon, could soon head to other cities with Democratic mayors: “I’m going to do something — that, I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore […]
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Did NASA Really Discover a Parallel Universe?
The internet has done it again. Today it abounds with stories from tabloids like the New York Post, Express and the Daily Star—mostly quoting each other—that major on claims that NASA scientists have evidence that could prove the existence of a parallel universe. It’s all way overblown and misrepresents what the research in question is about. […]
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The Police Brutality Riots: It’s No Longer About Justice
In America’s polarized politics, pointing to the errors made on both sides of the conflicts that divide us gets a bad rap. What has the Civil Rights Movement taught us? What did it say about police brutality? It just comes to show how little our society has actually come. This […]
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Anti-China Sentiment Has Infiltrated Social Media
There’s been an uptick of rhetoric blaming someone for the coronavirus outbreak. Specifically, China and the Chinese people. Instead of using neutral and scientific language like “coronavirus” and “Covid-19,” people are posting online about the “Chinese virus,” “Chinese coronavirus,” “Wuhan virus,” or the “Kung Flu.” Much of this ramping-up can […]
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Will Ocean Seabed Mining Delay a Coronavirus Cure?
The ocean remains relatively undiscovered, with only 5% explored. It has always been an intriguing field of study, but with the overarching problem of the coronavirus in modern society, ocean exploration and profitable mining projects are sporadically affecting research to end the pandemic once and for all, but to what […]
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How Does Climate Change Affect the Coronavirus?
In the coming decades, ecological degradation, rising temperatures, and extreme weather events could intensify the threats to human health posed by viruses. Climate change has always been a topic of debate, but how exactly is helping, or harming, society as we know today? We know from past epidemics that changes […]