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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This photo captures a fleeting moment during a brilliant sunset. In this instant between day and night, the sky is many shades of color ranging from the dark blue and gray of the clouds to the bright ...

Imagine this: You’ve just gone through an intense cycle of labor after a high-risk pregnancy involving a breech birth andlife-threatening complications. But thankfully, with the support of hospital ...

I took the photo on the right in the tunnel at Sutro Baths in San Francisco in October 2016 when I was 16 and a senior in high school. I had not yet applied to college and had no idea what my future ...