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Multicellular Archaea?

All life is classified into three overarching domains: archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. We are all familiar with eukarya, seeing that humans fall under this domain, and bacteria, but archaea are often forgotten. They are defined as single-celled prokaryotes, meaning they…

Nature’s Puppeteers: When Fungi Take Control

The Last of Us video game and its live-action adaptation follow a fictional post-apocalyptic story about surviving in a world where a mutated Cordyceps fungus evolves to survive in human bodies, turning people into violent zombies. According to the chief…

How to become an expert at 2048!

Have you ever heard of 2048? If you memorize the powers of 2, then you would know this is simply 2 to the power of 11. However, that’s not how most people react. My first impression was “What’s with this…

Evolution of Programming

  The Origins (1840s-1940s) 1843: Ada Lovelace’s Algorithm The history of programming begins with Ada Lovelace, a British aristocrat that was educated in mathematics and science. In 1843, Lovelace created the very first machine algorithm for Charles Babbage’s Difference Machine.…