Ziqian Feng is a Graduate Student in the Health Data Science program. She loves to explore the big questions in life and ...

Originally published in Synapse on December 15, 1965. So much has been said about patriotism lately that your editor was ...

Originally published in Synapse on December 8, 2005.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, ...

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The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and ...

The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and ...

Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 2, 1993. Every year there are some four million unintended pregnancies in the United States, approximately 1.6 million end in abortion. These figures were cited ...

There was a time when I thought everything in the future was predictable. Then, there came a time when I thought nothing was predictable. There was a time when I thought a career was everything. Then, ...

People say that because we were born on the other side, in the north, we are neither from here nor from there. Our colonizing Spanish is rusty and we are “gringas” like bidi bidi bom bom, and what can ...

Starting a PhD program in Fall 2020 was a challenge. Fully virtual classes, heavily reduced population densities in labs, and a ban on program-sponsored icebreakers made it hard to make friends and ...