Health Shot: Vaccines
I’m sure we can all remember that dreaded moment at the doctor’s office when they say “Time for some shots!”. Much crying later (maybe that’s just me) , we leave the office with a brightly colored band aid –…
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Hidden Figures Beyond: Alexa Canady, the First African-American Neurosurgeon
This article will be the first of a series of articles I hope to continue called Hidden Figures Beyond. The goal of this series is to go beyond the movie Hidden Figures, highlighting more scientists that are underrepresented minorities whose…
Understanding the Use of CRISPR in Humans
CRISPR, an anacronym that stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” is a concept becoming quite ubiquitous in most biology classes and rapidly gaining familiarity among experimental medicine and biology discussion circles not to mention scientific publications and health-…
I don’t know it when I see one
In Fig. 1, which line is longer? Our eyes will tell us that the first line seems longer than the second, but in fact two lines are the same. This famous image consisting of stylized arrows is called Müller-Lyer illusion.…
Atlanta’s growth is Hurting the Environment
The city of Atlanta is constantly growing. With new apartment complexes, new buildings and more companies coming to the city, the metropolitan of Atlanta is currently the “fourth fastest growing area in the country” (Carnes, 2019). These changes that are…
An Egg-istential Question
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A classic philosophical conundrum, intentionally baffling and likely argument-provoking. “You need a chicken to lay an egg, but chickens come from eggs, so you need an egg to get the chicken… to…
Science of Spider Silk
Every year I move into a new room on campus at Georgia Tech, I buy a package of sticky putty, hoping that it will be strong enough to hold my large posters of the periodic table and Chance the Rapper,…
Pride and [ERROR: FUNCTION TERMINATED]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any homework of significant difficulty is in want of long hours to completion. In this case, twenty hours, give or take some breaks to re-hydrate from where the tears slipped away unnoticed among…