A Little Bit Human
Mission-Driven Nerdiness
On nearly every line, green-colored signs embellish New York City train cars, each urging the public to “Save a life. Carry naloxone.” Other signs offer well-intentioned advice, such as “Avoid using alone!” and “The best way to prevent an overdose is to not use drugs”. Each of these public service announcements is aimed towards combating […]
Months before the 2020 election, public outcries to vote for healthcare ran rampant across social media outlets. Here’s the catch: we did vote for healthcare but we also didn’t. If you were among those who voted take a minute to ask yourself this: how much did a candidate’s position on healthcare policy weigh into where […]
Due to recent events, social ills like political radicalism and racial discrimination have dominated the news cycle, temporarily obscuring other urgent problems that still fester in society, even more so with a pandemic raging on. One of these problems is that of gender inequality and the related issues of sexism and misogyny. Gender inequality is […]
A small but growing number of COVID patients are trapped in limbo. They’ve been released from the hospital, they’ve tested negative, they’ve gone back to work – but they still can’t breathe. The smallest tasks exhaust them, their heads and joints ache, and there’s no medical diagnosis that seems to explain it. Welcome to the hell that […]
Progress happens through novel discourses. Black Lives Matter has revealed an age of moral awakening where the ‘woke’ generations have assumed avenues to bring about change. Social movements take center stage when it comes to mass social action through the collective opinions of communities. However, beyond the enormous contributions of the Black Lives Matter movement […]
How One Restaurateur Managed to Open a Chinese Restaurant Amid a Pandemic and Political Turmoil In February of 2020, Vincent Lin signed a lease on a two-floor restaurant space right in the heart of midtown, between fifth and sixth avenue. It was to become the site of his latest restaurant, Blue Willow. At over 150 […]
The word “alien” typically conjures up images of glowing, green creatures in otherworldly spaceships. Maybe even Steven Spielberg’s E.T. What seldom comes to mind are images of women fleeing violence, rape, and gang threats in hopes of a safer life across the border. However, this was who former United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions was […]
Addiction. Anxiety. Bullying. Depression. Eating disorder. Marginalization. Self-harm. Suicide. Trauma. Violence. Lives as teenagers are not always youthful nor blithe, and oftentimes life challenges are entangled with emotions and mental health. Youths’ cryptic codes of expression of these emotions, as well as the medium, have changed with the advance of technology. On social media platforms […]
If there has been anything positive to come from the 2020 global pandemic, it’s the ability to shamelessly binge watch TV and not face the wave of guilt brought on by friends who desperately want a night out at the bar. Introverts everywhere can finally sit back with ease knowing that not only are their […]
Li’s Situation Li was a 61-year-old patient I met while volunteering in a major urban hospital in Nanchang, China. Over a day, Li and his wife waited 4 hours between two 5-minute examinations. They had also started their day from the rural area where they live at 5 am to make the 3-hour trip to […]
Or the obnoxious Brit… Americans and Brits seem to be in a never-ending boxing match for the title of “world’s worst tourist.” We both tend to be loud and navigate the world with an air of entitlement that can only be gotten from an extended history of colonization. But, we don’t have to be this […]
A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation … A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. With this definition of cyberspace, we can trace the starting point of our journey toward the matrix. William Gibson published his novel Neuromancer in 1984, […]
“Chinese are destroying Bay Ridge.” Flyers with this title were found distributed across Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in June 2020. The flyers went on to describe some of the “crimes” that Chinese in Bay Ridge have “committed”: “junk stores: massage parlors (prostitution), nail salons, 99 cent stores, dirty Chinese restaurants; trashed up streets, bottle collecting, scavenging; coronavirus […]
The Rise of Streaming When streaming services first hit the scene in the mid-aughts, the distribution method wasn’t taken seriously, particularly by network and studio executives and distributors. But, over the years, it quickly grew into a staple of society, becoming a primary method of consuming television and cinema content as millions switched from traditional […]
Andri, an anxious teenage boy, hides and represses his sexuality in fear of his masculine father’s reaction but, on the eve of Andri’s first date, he finds a clever way to reveal his secret.
When you think about the great tech companies of the modern age, a few names probably come to mind: Apple, Google, Tesla, Amazon. But in an unexpected turn of events for the year 2020, KFC has recently announced what may turn out to be the greatest invention since the discovery of fire, the KFConsole. Part […]