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Illegal Substances vs. Neurological Disorders: The Showdown

Studies at the forefront of treating an array of neurological disorders are beginning to utilize an interesting choice of drugs as treatments: psychedelics. Researchers use a technique called microdosing with hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin, mescaline, and LSD to achieve…

Uncanny Valley

  One month ago, my boyfriend and I went to Savannah for a visit. I’ve always heard there are a lot of nice little stores down pedestrian streets there. As a girl who has no resistance to delicate handicrafts, I couldn’t miss…

Gringo Perdido — King of the Road

  “A repo man’s job is always intense” movie Repo Man (1984) Field biologists get themselves into situations that other normal people, including other scientists, just do not encounter, when you are up close and personal with Mother Nature, Gaia,…

1984 in 2020

The Chinese government has recently decided that the Chinese people are in need of some form of formalized credit system for the purpose of evaluating individual trustworthiness. This in and of itself is not terribly noteworthy. Many countries already have…

How Corals Changed My Life

I’m a fifth year undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying industrial and systems engineering, and I plan to attend graduate school this Fall–but not for anything related to industrial and systems engineering. I plan to pursue a PhD…

5 Alternative Facts on Climate Change Disproved

Government officials are making several claims about one of today’s hottest topics, climate change, yet are lacking some scientific proof… 1. Global Warming is a hoax. An overwhelming majority of the scientific community agrees that global warming is a real…