Tag / America
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Agtech For The Ag Coast
The United Nation’s median projection for the population of the world in 2050 is 9.7 billion people — an increase of over 25 percent in the planet’s population and 2 billion additional people from 2019. Although seemingly far off, 2050 is only a little over 30 years from now, meaning that most of us will…
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Terms And Conditions Will Apply
Before the Fourth of July, I made a Facebook account for my summer job – I worked in Wash U’s Office of Scholar Programs and needed an account to invite scholars from the Class of 2023 to the official Facebook group of the Rodriguez Scholars Program. So I followed them, invited them all to the…
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The Vegans Are Coming!
The Economist boldly declared that 2019 would be the year that veganism goes mainstream. In America alone, the sale of vegan foods rose ten times higher than those of general foods. In over 190 countries, 250,000 people made Veganuary pledges to switch to a plant-based diet. The Chinese government has voiced aims to reduce meat…
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A Costly, Not So Free Market
“Let’s Make This Economy Work for Everyone” was one of the most spoken phrases on the Democratic presidential debate stages on June 26 and 27. Elizabeth Warren kicked off the first debate asking America: “Who is this economy really working for?,” answering her own question: “for those with money.” What do these politicians even mean?…
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The Opioid Epidemic’s Controversial Solutions
A recent study Annals of Internal Medicine reported that nearly 12% of the almost 592,000 patients diagnosed with an ankle sprain in the US received a prescription for an opioid, mainly from their primary and emergency care physicians. This number is especially startling because there have been no evidence-backed claims to support the usage of…
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Wake Up: The Effects Of Linguistic Convenience On Political Polarization
A recent study finds that 59 percent of links shared on social media weren’t actually clicked by the person sharing them, implying that—six times out of ten—only the article’s headline was read before deciding that “Katie has to see this.” It’s hard to condemn this behavior when headlines like “Birth control makes women unattractive and…
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Collective Memory And Trumpian Politics
Collective memory – the shared memory of a group, often constructed and reconstructed over generations – was crucial to President Trump’s 2016 victory and is currently being used to mobilize his loyal base. His pervasive “Make America Great Again” tagline comes with the implicit assumption that America was once great and is no longer so.…
