The mystery of the missing seed
One morning as I was chopping up the different fruit for my smoothie. I wondered why the bananas did not have seeds but the blueberries and strawberries did. I was wondering about that and this is what I…
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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (2019-nCoV) Outbreak that Everybody is Talking About
People have different preferences for how they want to follow what is going on around the scientific world without having to spend too much time seeking for information. However, seldom scientific information is presented in all possible formats that could…
Engineers Exposed: My Favorite Ethics Scandals
Imagine training your whole life to become an astronaut. Excelling in aerospace engineering degrees, going through years of training and exams, only for some cold weather to ruin your first mission and cost you your life. Even worse, it could…
Computer Programming: A Women’s History
I always found it interesting how people tend to see computer science and coding in general as inherently a male-dominated field, despite how the very foundations of computer programming were established by a woman, Ada Lovelace. In the 60s, computer…
Are sustainability trends legit?
A lot of us may have seen the VSCO girl memes, telling us to “save the turtles” with their Hydroflasks and metal straws. I find it fascinating that metal straws have become a trend, restaurants have stopped providing plastic straws,…
The Secret Kennedy: The Science Behind Lobotomy
Introduction Everyone has heard of John F. Kennedy before. Whether it be from his presidency, his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, or his assassination. Many people have even heard about his brother, Robert F. Kennedy and his assassination, or…
God does not Play Dice
“I am convinced God does not play dice with the universe.” – Albert Einstein Quantum Mechanics, despite how fancy and scifi-esque it sounds, is not a new concept. The “revolution” began in the beginning of the 1900s with Maxwell Planck’s…
Stephen Hawking Tribute Comic Review
“Tribute: Stephen Hawking” by Michael Lent and Brian McCarthy with art by Zach Bassett and published by Tidalwave Productions, released 2019. I confess: I never really paid attention to Stephen Hawking. I knew who he was: a popular scientist…