Lost Connection: what we lose when we’re plugged in

Recently, I was asked to write a piece describing the “beauty of the Metaverse,” the augmented world through virtual reality. It’s arguably the next chapter of the internet and promises a new way to socialize and communicate with people around the world in a unique digital sphere. It’s made to be boundless, persistent, and immersive….

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A Different Perspective on the Light of Reason

Recently, a science-technology-engineering-math-medicine (STEAMM) project that I’ve been working on was published! EquilibriUM is a print magazine being distributed across the University of Michigan campus, but can also be found online. While I helped edit and put the project together, I also wrote a piece about how two modern philosophers, Descartes and Spinoza, conceived of…

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Gentlemen and Scholars: How science is for everyone

When you think of a scientist, it’s probably someone in a white coat working in a laboratory, chemical bottles labeled on shelves, and computers displaying complex graphs and figures. Perhaps you might think of a biologist or a geologist out in the field collecting samples to bring back to a similar lab to analyze. There’s…

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Existentialism is an Organism

Note from the author: I’ve always been interested in philosophy and have wanted to try and merge my philosophical readings with science writing for a while. The bold title gets its inspiration from an influential essay (Existentialism is a Humanism) by Jean Paul Sartre, which states, among other things, that individuals are responsible for themselves…

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