By Caroline Bao and Samantha Zhu If you have had the misfortune of skiing during seasons of sparse snow, you may be familiar with the horrifying sound of scraping skis combined with a terrifying sense of losing control on steeper trails. Paired with low visibility and aggressive winds at higher altitudes, the experience can be unfavorable for many. Particularly in southern California, the slippery snow in several resorts can create harrowing sensations of skiing, or rather skating, down ice. Warmer day temperatures melt the snow and cool night temperatures resolidify the snow, packing it into an unpleasant, firm brick, leading to the coinage of the term “California concrete” - describing its hard and icy texture.
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The hero of the 1980s. The man who led the US through some of the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression. The average American would assume I was talking about President Reagan. Authorizing gigantic tax cuts, blowing the US government spending through the rough, it’s easy to see why people would assume that President Reagan was the hero of the bullish 1980’s. However, another man worked behind the scenes: Paul Volcker.
By Christina Lee Neglected Tropical DiseasesThe drug discovery process is arduous, risky, and extremely expensive, costing pharmaceutical companies around $2.6 billion to develop a marketable drug. It is no wonder that little research is being done on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of 20 diseases that mainly affect underprivileged populations. These populations are unlikely to be able to fund for research regarding those tropical diseases and even less likely to be able to pay for their treatment if a drug were to be developed and put on the market. However, more than a sixth of the world’s population is affected by NTDs, and the number is only going up. Measures need to be taken in order to treat the patients that need help the most.
IntroductionStarting from ancient times, dreams, aside from playing a major part in literature and arts, have been subjects to drastically different interpretations by people of various regions of the world. Regardless of the interpretations being scientifically based or not, people often managed to come up with certain rationales that seemed plausible at the time of its proposal. For example, ancient Chinese and Indian cultures both believed dreams to be the parting of a person’s soul from the body. Aristotle believed that dreams were precursors to diseases and allowed analyses of them. For this matter, the study of dreams became ambiguous as numerous different theories emerged with supporting evidence. In addition, the brain is a rather complex and difficult subject to study; the phenomena of dreams lie beyond the limit of accurate description using neuroscience. With inevitable uncertainties in the scientific study of dreams, several modern, scientific theories of dreaming had been developed. The following content presents some of the most influential and important scientific theories on dreaming.
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