While it is generally agreed upon that the stomach bug is unpleasant, most of us find comfort in the knowledge that the queasiness will pass. Unfortunately, for 14-year-old Lillian Brown, her three-day-long virus came with lifelong reminders. On the third day of her illness, the pain in her stomach was so intense that she had […]
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The plight of 2020 has shaken our lives as we knew them, and understanding and adapting to our current situation is certainly no easy task. The burden of figuring out the rest of your life as a young adult was seemingly not hard enough on its own. Searching for guidance myself, I turned to my
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Breathe in. Breathe out. Look away. Stay sober. Addiction is not an active choice to engage in potentially harmful behavior; it is a disease. In fact, conscious attempts by addicts to avoid drug and alcohol use are frequently suppressed by their neural processing systems. Changes in cognition, emotion, and environment all affect a body’s ability
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810 miles south of the North Pole, 390 feet deep inside Platåberget Mountain, lay 490 million seeds waiting to be planted. At the world’s northernmost airport, there sits only one destination: the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Formed in collaboration with the Norwegian government and international non-profit The Crop Trust, the seed vault is a preventative
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