I Like Big Bugs and I Cannot Lie By Shannon Jones Imagine a bug. No, larger. No, still larger. Imagine a dragonfly with a wingspan of almost two feet, or a centipede eight feet long. If you travelled back in time, you might have seen either of these creatures, or some of their other, equally massive, […]

More Bacon, More Problems By Lucas Cohen In response to the recent accumulation of evidence that the consumption of red and processed meats increases the risk of cancer — particularly colorectal cancer — a team of 22 scientists convened at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to formally evaluate these claims. The team examined over 800 epidemiological studies,

Preventing Procrastination By Alex Soltoff I went to bed on Friday, March 11th believing that I’d get up in the morning at nine to do some intensive research for this article. I managed to wake up at nine, but because I had fallen asleep in the middle of an episode of Girls, I had to

Against The Grain: What’s All the Fuss about Gluten? By Naomi Stapleton People suddenly seem to have lots of opinions of gluten. There are the people avoiding gluten, and there are the ones aggressively avoiding those people at all costs. Gluten is feeling a lot of hostility lately, and it’s not yet completely clear if there

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

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

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.

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

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