Figure: High Density Housing (Source: Geograph Britain and Ireland, Author: ad acta) Housing for the poor and efforts to mitigate climate change are important sociological and humanitarian concerns that, normatively speaking, ought to be addressed immediately. Unfortunately, California’s efforts in this direction have suffered a setback (Dougherty, 2020). To combat the housing crisis, two years …
Figure: A Social Network (Wikimedia Commons, Author Zigomitros Athanasios – Thor4bp) What is common between our social circles, the internet, and food webs? They can be modeled as a bunch of interconnected nodes—a network. As simple as the definition of a network sounds, this diagram of nodes connected with edges contains more information than meets …
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Figure: An image of a woman wearing a mask, isolated in her home during the pandemic quarantine. (Source: Google Photos, Author: Justin Paget Getty) Prevalent social isolation during COVID-19 lead to widespread psychological distress in the population, including the experience of loneliness, which has become increasingly recognized as a major public health issue in recent …
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Figure: A person scrolling through news articles on their smartphone. FoMO has been largely studied in the context of social media and smartphone usage (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Japanexperterna.se). Fear of missing out, or FoMO, is a feeling of apprehension that others are having positive or rewarding experiences where one is not present (Przybylski et al., …
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Figure 1 President Tsai Ing-wen inspects the Central Epidemic Command Center on April 2, 2020 (Source: Flickr, 總統府) (A previous version of this article that describes the situation in the pre-Omicron wave can be found here) Recently, an article in The Lancet medical journal article measured the biological, economic, demographic, and socio-political correlates of COVID-19 …
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BigDog robots being tested under the supervision of a Boston Dynamics team member. BigDog is a quadruped robot created in 2005 by Harvard University Concord Field station and the Jet propulsion Laboratory. The Robots are created to assist in Military combat and crime expedition in environments prone to terrorism. The nature of these environments may …
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Covid 19 and Isolation (Source: created by author) Abstract The coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives of people across the globe in multiple dimensions, from health to work to social relationships. This review explores the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of adolescents. Even before the pandemic, the adolescent population was experiencing mental health …
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Cover Image: In the current age, social media has become a main platform for human interaction. We have to think deeply about whether it contributes to a better world. (Source: Pixabay, jmexclusives) On the 28th of October, Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook’s new name: Meta. Some heralded this move as the dawn of an effort to …
This article was originally submitted to the Modern MD competition hosted by the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (DUJS) and was recognized as an honorable mention. Abstract Society has historically relied on the binary division between women and men in nearly all aspects of society, from language and education to public policy and healthcare. Recently, …
Cover Image: A patient being prepared for radiation therapy. (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Rhoda Baer) INTRODUCTION Something we should all be cognizant of is the lack of inclusivity in both cancer trials and in post-marketing drug sales. This is a problem which often owes to economic disparities: those with fewer resources have poorer health and well-being …
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