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Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Who is more likely to chip your brain?

The Disease and The Cure The world is racing to procure a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Russia, China, the United States, and the UK are current forerunners in this race to combat the virus. There are multiple clinical trials in various stages of production at this moment. A vaccine could only be months away…

BySaad RashidNovember 10, 20200Comments

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Focalism; The Culprit Responsible for Clouding Judgment

People in life often indulge in focalism when they narrow down their vision and focus solely on one event or one aspect of an event. The complete ignorance of any other factors is strong and even accounting for any new factor cropping up is out of the question. This tendency is called focalism or…

BySeirut JavedNovember 8, 20200Comments

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The Contribution of Social Media to Body Dysmorphia

We know that a notable number of industries, such as film, beauty, advertising, etc., capitalize on their consumers’ insecurities, but what is it that prompts those insecurities in the first place? Our distorted perception of what we should be and what the world sees us as gives rise to self-doubt, along with an all-consuming need…

ByZainab HasanNovember 5, 20200Comments

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The History, and the Future of Diets

Considering the incredibly important role that diet plays in an individual’s health, it is surprising how late it made its way into the mainstream. Early Days In the modern world, the introduction of our diet as something that influences how we live our lives can be pinpointed to around the time vitamins were discovered. The…

BySaad RashidNovember 2, 20200Comments

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Hikikomori Hermitism and the Recluse

Since the Coronavirus reached pandemic proportions back in March, the lives of many people have been changed beyond recognition. Even people who are not among the old and the sickly have had to undergo the stressors of lockdown. Quarantine, currently the only weapon we have against the virus, is not without its own drawbacks. Fear…

BySaad RashidOctober 31, 20200Comments

The Candy Coup, Why Fat isn’t Evil.

Fat. That one word is the boon of millions of people throughout the world. To make things more precise, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, two billion people on this planet are either overweight or obese. Around one in every ten people are medically obese. Of course, the issue of fat-shaming is another…

BySaad RashidOctober 29, 20200Comments

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The Historic Journey of Plastic from the Earth’s Crust to the Mariana Trench

Plastic is one of the most widely produced materials at a global level for nearly all forms of consumption (industrial, domestic, etc.). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has reported that over 300 million tons of plastic are produced every single year for a wide range of uses. Plastics were originally made out…

ByZainab HasanOctober 26, 20200Comments

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Genetic Ancestry Tests & All That They Entail

The human mind and soul are full of curiosity and the thirst to know more does not get quenched ever. The dip into finding out our ancestry via ancestry tests is just another expression of curiosity. People have always wanted to know where exactly they come from and genetic ancestry testing provides them with the…

BySeirut JavedOctober 22, 20200Comments

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Continuing the Cycle: How We Carry Intergenerational Trauma through Our Legacies

There is a novel idea that trauma is passed on from one generation to the next. Intergenerational trauma was recognized as a concept in 1966, when psychologists studied the descendants of people who had lived through the Holocaust. Another study was conducted twenty years later, which found that a considerable number of grandchildren of Holocaust…

ByKhudeeja AsifOctober 20, 20202Comments

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What is Deep Work? Tips to Boost Concentration

The term “Deep Work” has nothing to do with geographical depth or so-called intellectual/philosophical discourse. In fact, it is a much more simple concept. The phrase was coined by Cal Newport- a professor of Computer Sciences at Georgetown University, in his book titled “Deep Work”. Though the term is newly coined, it refers to a…

BySaad RashidOctober 16, 20200Comments

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