Mediate your life with Meditation By Leila Habib Mention meditation, and some people will sound a string of “ummmmm” for a few seconds and others may scoff, claiming they don’t have time for such a thing. “In the past, I had a lofty idea of meditation as spiritual, far out, and otherworldly,” remembered Buddhist Spiritual […]
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Health and the White House By Lucas Cohen The Obama Administration is no stranger to public health reform. Some of its most recent health-related projects — namely, President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) and Vice President Joe Biden’s foray into funding for cancer research — are quite ambitious. The executive branch promises to assign enormous sums of money towards
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Aroma in Action: Enhancing Cognition with Peppermint By Whitney Kuwamoto, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Peppermint is most commonly known as a breath-freshening agent or a tasty additive to holiday candies, but did you know that it also possesses considerable medicinal properties? Most significantly, peppermint can have notable effects on the human brain by enhancing cognitive functions.
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Remember Me? What We Know about Dementia By Katie Hudson, Marine Biology, 2017 I could tell you exactly where I was when I learned about the 9/11 attacks, when Michael Jackson died, or when the bombs went off on Marathon Monday. But sometimes, I couldn’t tell you what I had for breakfast. We all tend to
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Climate Change Could Spell Seafood Shortage By Margaret Blagbrough, Environmental Science, 2017 Imagine — a future in which seafood restaurants in the most popular beach resort towns are no longer in business. Why? Thank climate change. According to a recent study by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, over 50 percent of fish and invertebrate species
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Leaving a Leg(acy): Donating Your Body and Brain to Science By Stephanie Wasiuk, Biology, 2017 People always say “I want to make a difference in the world, leave it better than I found it.” Most probably have something flashy in mind, like pulling the entire homeless population out of poverty or solving the world’s energy crisis.
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Uncut Interview: Professor Tarik Gouhier on Statistics, Modeling, and Climate Change NUScience’s Lucas Cohen sat down with Professor Tarik Gouhier to discuss his background and research as part of a feature for NUScience magazine issue 28. This unabbreviated transcript offers more detail from their conversation. Before we move on to the broader topics, I’d like to
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Breaking The Ice: The Changing Face of Climate Change in Mass Media By Erica Yee, Journalism and Information Science, 2020 Comedian and commentator John Oliver For many years, the media has framed the reality of global climate change as controversial and uncertain. In a 1950 article titled “Is the World Getting Warmer?”, the Saturday Evening Post spearheaded
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Stumped by Trees By Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017 How many trees are there in on your road? In Boston? In the US? Could you estimate? Where would you go to find out? If you answered “I don’t know” to any or all of the above questions, you are not alone. As it turns out, only