Sponsored by HEARTS, 美华文学, and 硅谷女性

GPS for Tracking Tumors

Medicine has come a long way, but it’s still is not quite possible to see inside a living person without invasive measures. Knowing the location of a tumor is lifesaving, but investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient …

Read More »

The Birds and the Bees

By Jamie Minden Despite their obvious necessity, bees have been dying off quickly.  Recently, a year of pesticide use destroyed 44% of US bee colonies, and 7 species of bees are on the endangered species list.  European countries have even cited a …

Read More »

Salmonella

By Allen Bryan Having an egg every morning for protein is a healthful dietary habit, but it could also cause a type of food poisoning known as Salmonella. The infection is called Salmonellosis, but is widely known by the bacteria’s genus name, …

Read More »

Google’s Censored Search

David Zhang The great firewall. It is a firewall that blocks sites not approved by China’s communist regime. This includes many popular social media and news sites such as Facebook and Google. As a result, Chinese sites such as Baidu and WeChat …

Read More »

The Irony of Jokes

Serena Mao Making friends and having a sense of humor are people’s common desires. As with anything that people want, there are strategies and techniques to accomplishing them. Too often, however, instead of being truly social or hilarious, they involve methods that …

Read More »