Getting into bed, I turn on my favorite sitcom to listen to as I fall asleep. This is something a lot of people tend to do, turning on their favorite comfort show. Whether its Friends, That 70s Show, or The King of Queens, many love a good mindless show with a laugh track that will […]
Following the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language model, generative artificial intelligence has exploded in popularity and many institutions have been integrating the technology into their products and processes. As explained by Nvidia, a world leader in artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) are a form of deep learning algorithm – a type of artificial […]
Today, over 150 million children are orphans, millions of whom suffer from malnutrition, abuse, and a lack of education. Some of these children are adopted in the first 2 years of their lives by caregivers who live several hundred miles away from their home, and some orphans live in residential facilities such as orphanages or […]
In December of 2011, Ségolène Bergeon Langle and Jean-Pierre Cuzin, two of France’s leading art experts, resigned from the Louvre’s advisory committee supervising the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin and Child With Saint Anne. In an interview with The New York Times, Bergeon Langle stated that she provided detailed reports to the Louvre and […]
In a country plagued by slave-based and Jim Crow power structures–from the police force to the filibuster to the consistent voter suppression–racism remains a hot topic in political debate. While many of these issues, consistently used to maintain the racist status quo, continue to be vital in our conversations about dismantling racism, one topic gets […]
The college drop-off: a sentimental experience for many families filled with tearful goodbyes and hopeful expectations for the future. Most parents believe they are leaving their child to the best four years of their life. But the parents of Luke Tang, a sophomore at Harvard University, instead received the tragic news that their son had […]
Cardiovascular disease plays the role of a silent assassin; it gathers strength in the shadows until it’s ready to reveal itself. It seems that the disease’s brutal thirst for human life can never be satisfied as it continues to claim more and more lives. In 2018 alone, 655,381 U.S. citizens died from heart disease. This […]
“In my first class at MIT, I arrived 10 minutes early to a lecture hall…only to watch wave upon wave of male students walk in behind me. I was confused and curious. Where were the women?” This narrative, found in an article from Times Higher Education, is from Irene C, an electrical engineering and computer science student […]
The story of Freddie Gray goes a bit like this: a young, unarmed black man is arrested by police officers in a low-income neighborhood of West Baltimore, Maryland. In a video documenting the aftermath of his arrest, Gray lays on the ground in handcuffs. He is screaming and his body appears rigid. Bystanders implore police […]