The flickering lights, towering Christmas trees, carols ringing in the air, tinsel decorations in sight, Santa and his elves rolling through the streets, the smell of baked goods wafting around and so much more are telltale signs of the good ol’ Christmas approaching. While the event is originally religious, its traditions and spirit are infectious…
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The Mukbang is a viral social media phenomenon that has been in the global virtual zeitgeist for more than a decade. As simple or mundane as it may seem, this popular trend has seen an explosion in popularity throughout the world.
Stemming from South East Asia, mainly South Korea, this trend has taken the world…
As far as anyone can remember, human beings have always desired flawless skin. With each part of the world having its own definition of a desirable look, there has never been a scarcity of different ways to improve one's skin over the centuries. Now one may attribute it to general tending, hygiene, or be it…
According to Our World in Data, the world’s populations has grown from 1 billion in the 1800’s to 7.7 billion in 2021. And as of yet China has been holding the title for the world’s most populated country for the last few centuries. As stated by the data collected, in 2021, China is still in…
Known by millions then, and yet still, the portrait of the Afghan girl had a widespread impact around the world. Published as a cover of National Geographic magazine in June, 1985, this portrait was that of one adolescent girl named Sharbat Gula, who is depicted wearing a tattered reddish maroon dupatta (headscarf), with…
Before the recession, internships were considered to be a stepping stone in a person’s career. They had the interns working inhumane conditions and many of them even gave out monetary compensation. All of that seems like a dream of the past as now the culture of “unpaid internships” has seemingly perpetuated the market.
Ross Perlin,…
Emotions are flying high and there is a sense of hope in the air as many people around the world are getting vaccinated through the highly infectious and deadly disease of COVID-19. As people prepare themselves to return to some semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy, there is a collective effort to shelf the COVID-19 pandemic as…
Knocking on the doors of households with children, health care workers, and volunteers work towards the eradication of poliomyelitis in the country of Pakistan. Such official polio elimination campaigns have been ongoing since 1994 then why is it that Pakistan is one of the few countries that is a pocket for the deadly virus?
When…
The Great Exhibition of 1851- whether it was done to enhance internationalism by the Royal family of Britain or was a coy plan to show British superiority over foreign goods, was a booming success that lasted for nearly five months and attracted six million attendees. Queen Victoria had nothing but praises for the exhibition when…
Have you ever wondered where the millions of tons of waste generated in third-world countries with no proper garbage disposal system goes?
With the Global Ocean already in jeopardy due to natural phenomenon like Climate Change, becoming a garbage dump for an enormous variety of waste is the last thing it needs; unfortunately, however, this…