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I’m Pretty Sure Scientists are the Only People Who Listen to Podcasts Regularly
Buckle up; I’m about to tell you what every scientist does not want you to know: we spend [...]
A Mediterranean Spring Break
Spring break: the fabled few days each March of a collegian’s career with the highest concentration of debauchery. [...]
Lessons Learned from Planning My Future
In a blog last semester, I talked about the question that strikes fear in the hearts of seniors [...]
Wasteless for Earth Week
For the past 46 years, people around the nation have spent April 22 celebrating Earth Day by both [...]
(Mostly) White Dudes at Play: A Brief History of Silicon Valley, Part 1: Academic-military-microwave-utopian-industrial complex: 1920-1970
What comes to mind when you think of “Silicon Valley”? Maybe you visualize a rabid, young, hoodie-clad tech [...]
The CRISPR-Cas9 Trilogy, CRISPR 101 Part 3: The Questions We Face
It has been said that the 19th century was the “century of physics,” the 20th was that of [...]
A Vacancy on the Bench: One 19th Century Alumnus’s Supreme Court Journey
The unexpected death of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has ignited a political brawl over who [...]
Introduction: Explaining the Future of Synthetic Biology with Computer Programming’s Past
If you are majoring in biology right now, I say to you: that was a good call. The [...]
The Presidential Primaries Abroad: Japan Edition
With a 13-hour time difference, it is easy to feel that Japan and the US are on opposite [...]
The Sir Christopher Wren Building: What’s in a Name?
If you’ve ever been on a campus tour, you’ve heard the spiel: The Sir Christopher Wren Building is [...]
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