by Tayyaba Jiwani | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Accessible Science is Key to Public Trust For scientists, these are times both exciting and apprehensive. From designer babies to genomic medicine, artificial intelligence, and molecular surveillance, science is arguably the most dominant force defining our future....
by Shaina Goel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
High-Tech and Haute Couture Cybernetic signs and symbols have increasingly become a magnetizing spectacle in contemporary culture. The cyborg as a hybrid of human and machine in high fashion runway shows of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the ways in which...
by Aditi Parikh | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
A Critique of Racial Inequality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a tragedy likely written in late 1593 and set in ancient Rome, is a meditation on early modern race relations that still resonates today. The play follows a white,...
by Adrienne Sockwell | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Letting your DNA “Show You the Way”: Selling the Politics of Genetics and the Business of Race As a historian, and as a person interested in most narratives of the past, I realize the unique value of Ancestry.com as a research tool in my own work. But, I...
by Carly Lewis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Måneskin: Italian Rockers on a Journey for Global Human Connection “Rock and Roll Never Dies!” From buskers on La Via del Corso to Eurovision winners, Måneskin shows what it means to earn a growing global platform and use it well This year’s Eurovision Song Contest...
by Rebecca Lipperini | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
The Soothing Aesthetics of the Supermarket I love the supermarket — fiercely, obsessively, weirdly. I go to the supermarket when I feel overwhelmed. And it turns out I’m not alone. I used to hang out at my local grocery store every day and see hundreds of other people...