The Transmutation of Alchemy Roxanne Lee, Environmental Science and Policy, 2019 Source: Shutterstock Human beings are not rational creatures. We are prone to superstition, bias, habits, and other subjective behaviors. Even the things we create that are supposed to be objective, like science, hold traces of this selfsame bias and superstition. Chemistry, the science of the […]
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The Other Citizen Science: Social media and the distribution of scientific information By Rachel Powell, Undeclared, 2022 Photo credit: Gus Mueller This article was originally posted as part of Issue 37: Interaction. Social media allows people around the world to communicate and share ideas with one another faster than ever before. People have limitless scientific information
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CGI: Creating Limitless Possibilities in Film By Rachel Powell, Undeclared, 2022 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 40: Wonder. Responsible for realistic yet extraordinary landscapes, characters, and special effects that frequently populate films of the 21st century, computer-generated imagery, or CGI, has experienced significant technological advancement in the last two decades.
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Why Godzilla is too hot to be real Roxanne Lee, Environmental Science and Policy, 2019 Source: Pixabay Sixty-five years ago, Godzilla roared into Japanese theaters and the public consciousness and has barely had a day off since. From 1954 onward, the film character, originally conceived as a metaphor for the horror of nuclear fallout, has starred
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IPCC report calls for unprecedented changes to combat climate change By Rachel Powell, Undeclared, Class of 2022 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 38: People. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report Oct. 12, 2018, warning about the need to prevent global temperature from increasing more
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How elephants keep their cool By Paula Hornstein, Biochemistry, 2020 Source: Pixabay The African elephant has the largest ears of any animal on the planet. This superlative, however, has utility beyond just aesthetics. Unlike humans, elephants cannot depend on sweat to cool them down, as their only sweat glands are between their toes. An elephant’s flapping
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From a mountain of fire to a mosaic of life By Ryan Brady, Chemical Engineering & Biochemistry, 2022 Source: Pixabay As the sun rose on May 18, 1980 in Skamania County, Washington, all appeared to be normal; however, this would all change rapidly. At 8:32 AM, an earthquake caused a massive landslide leading to the eruption
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Acting like a dog in heat? More like a human in oestrus By Maya Krause, Environmental Science, 2022 Source: Pixabay Some people like to believe our species has evolved away from more primitive behaviors, but when it comes to reproduction, we may not be so different from other animals. Most female mammals have a time period
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From a Mountain of Fire to a Mosaic of Life By Ryan Brady, Chemical Engineering & Biochemistry, 2022 As the sun rose on May 18, 1980 in Skamania County, Washington, all appeared to be normal; however, this would all change rapidly. At 8:32 AM, an earthquake caused a massive landslide leading to the eruption of Mount
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