Technological Advances in Health: Big Brother’s Benevolent Eye
by The leading cause of death in the United States is cardiovascular disease. In 2017, over 640,000 people died from heart disease in the US alone, …
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The Dangers of Implicit Trust
The history of medicine is riddled with tales of misplaced trust in bloodthirsty surgeons and curious practitioners who violated their oaths to never do harm …
The Fluid Nature of Fact: How Everyone Can be a Doctor
Since the invention of vaccines, there have been those that have opposed it on a number of issues, ranging from wild conspiracy theories on the …
Dirty Data and the Knee-Jerk Reaction
World War II was a tragedy of unprecedented proportions, with horrors happening both on and off of the battlefield. The excuse of working towards a …
The Two Cultures: A Difference in Values
In the book, The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow, the author explores the existence and difference between those within the scientific world and the literary one. …
The Fickle Boons of Industrial Booms
Industrialization has driven society’s expansion, powering mass production and refinement of products to support expanding populations while creating affordable goods and services for those who …
A Monster’s Place in Society
Frankenstein is a classic story by Mary Shelley and is treated as one of the most influential texts of modern literature. The novel begins with …
Heretical Advancement: Religion vs. Science
God exists above all, and in God’s will and beneficence do we exist. Since man questioned the unknown, he ascribed explanations to the intricacies and …
A Sign of the Times
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t …
The Hidden Depths of a Long Shadow
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight? ~Al Boliska Hundreds of years ago, the world was shaped by …