By: Brianne Cate, AIESEC Account Manager Guest Writer Women have been fighting for equal rights for the past 150 years, and although they have made great strides towards egalitarianism, the struggles and deficiencies are still evident all around the globe. Approximately 80 percent of men in Middle Eastern and North African countries agree that “men make better political leaders than women [...]
By: Carson Aft There is no second place. The threshold between first and last can be infinitesimal, but the consequences are always substantial. On the morning of June 28th, 2012, time stood still. For one of the first times in the 21st century, all eyes were on the Supreme Court, the greatest arbitrator in all the land. This was not [...]
By: Nick Eberhart A series of repetitive questions dominates college social interactions. Questions about your major, hometown, and spring break plans all neatly punctuate different times of the year. After the end of spring break, the one question that seems to reign supreme is “What are you doing this summer?” For many career-minded students, the answer to this question will [...]
By: Chris Neill One of the more peculiar phenomena to arise from the realm of monetary economics in the past few years is an entirely digital currency called Bitcoin. Hailed as the world’s first truly decentralized currency, Bitcoins are created on an open-source encryption protocol in the absence of any sort of central bank, and traded peer-to-peer via computer or [...]
By: Aashka Dave Google Glass has reached the hands of the explorers—and that means a free fall off of the privacy cliff is imminent. Starting with a skydiving-filled introduction in June 2012, Google Glass has done nothing but attract attention. Rumors surrounding the wearable computers have run rampant, and in the process everyone began to wonder: what exactly can Glass [...]
By: Rachael Zipperer In 1940, Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land,” probably his most popular song and arguably one of the most influential songs in American folk music. The song has been covered innumerable times over the decades since it was written, and Guthrie inspired artists like Bob Dylan who have gone on to create some of the [...]
By: Andrew Roberts With fewer car and in-home cialis radios in use, it is no surprise that programming, music, and news have jumped off the sinking ship that is traditional radio onto the safer shores of HD radio, social media, iTunes, and the Internet. The radio – what was once the central focal point of early-20th century American homes – [...]
By: Cecilia Moore A debate has arisen over whether the world, for the first time in over 10,000 years, has entered a new geological era. This purported new epoch, termed the Anthropocene, or the “age of man,” would dramatically alter the way humans view their role on this planet. The earth has been in the Holocene since the last ice [...]
By: Park MacDougald Margaret Thatcher famously stated, “There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.” Though British, Thatcher’s quote has in a sense been the unifying theme of the last half-century in America. Individualism itself is embedded into our culture; whether embodied by the cowboy or the entrepreneur, the rugged individual [...]
By: Stephanie Talmadge It is nearly impossible to log onto Tumblr and avoid spotting a .gif featuring a dancing Barack Obama, or an article about Michelle wearing yet another gown by Jason Wu, or photos catching Malia and Sasha taking a selfie. In America, the President always endures some amount of fame, but at some point since the 2008 campaign [...]
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