Let’s take a look at the Alabama Human Life Protection Act which was signed into law on Tuesday by Republican governor Kay Ivey. The bill takes a severe and zero tolerance policy on abortions (with very, very few exceptions) in the state of Alabama. The bill strips women of the right to make their own…
Welcome to fashion’s night out. The Met Gala, formally named the Costume Institute Gala, is an annual fundraising event held by Vogue at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to encourage donations and raise funding for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. For the second time since 2017, Frank Ocean…
Once again, as I was browsing YouTube, this video was recommended to me: It reminded me of the bleak, and inevitable prospect of climate change. It was frightening, how drastically, yet easily this world could collapse and transform. This daunting fact was stated by the video I discovered, and it encompasses a grand sense of…
Don’t worry… no Endgame spoilers ahead. Can you believe that the recent Marvel Superhero series has only started just over 10 years ago but has now become one of the most influential series in cinematic history? For those of you who have not yet dived into the world of superheroes but are feeling left out…
Over the spring break, I had the opportunity to travel to Japan with my school. I would like to share with you my top three highlights of the trip. We stayed in Tokyo for three nights, Yokohama for one night, Hakone for one night, Fuji Area for one night, and Kyoto for two nights for…
The World Health Organization has officially declared that anti-vaccinators are one of the top 10 threats to the world. According to the organization, vaccinations alone help prevent 2-3 million deaths per year. However outbreaks such as measles are getting more common than they should be, having a total increase of 30% globally. While some of…
Whether it’s listening to music or making music, everyone experiences it on a daily basis. There have been numerous studies on how the human mind reacts when music is played so here are some of the benefits. 1. Music Makes You Happier When you listen to music that you like, the brain releases a neurotransmitter…
The Charisma Myth is a book by Olivia Fox Cabane, an American writer and public speaker. In her book, she expands on “How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism,” her main point being that charisma can be taught and is not an innate quality, that it can be perfected by anyone.…
Using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87, scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, an accomplishment previously thought of as impossible. The image depicts a bright ring formed from the bending of light due to the intense gravity around the black hole that is 6.5 billion times…
1. Lyon, France One of the many things to do in France is to explore French cuisine and one of the best places to do so in Lyon, France. Locally fresh food has been grown from surrounding places such as Charolais and Rhone Valley. Many people say that Lyon is the capital for French Food.…
So I had discovered this video as I was binging YouTube, and it is incredibly intriguing. I highly recommend watching it, as it provides much better insight into the personal perspectives of South Korea’s citizens and taxi drivers. While in North America and many other countries, Uber has been seamlessly adapted into modern society. Its…
In case the abundance of campaign signs adorning every lawn has yet to notify you; there’s an election today. That’s right today April 16, 2019, is Alberta’s provincial election, and it’s an important one. Perhaps you’ve heard some pretty crazy rumors flying around about parties and their platforms. I am here, however, to put the…
Alan Turing was an immensely influential mathematician, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and an integral member of Bletchley Park’s code breaking team during WWII. This team was credited with saving millions of lives and ending the war an estimated two years early. Not only is Turing one of the greatest British minds, he was unapologetically…
An Analogy Thrift stores house items with their own unique past donated to be put on sale. The items found at these stores are ones that are not found in other brand name stores. All these items served their purposes to their previous owners, but alas the owners no longer have a use for them.…
How do humans manage to train elephants that can take our lives with one stomp? The method used to train elephants for circus shows is actually a lot simpler than expected: From the moment their born, you simply tie the back of a baby elephant’s leg to a pole. The baby elephant then cannot escape…