I composed medical school essays beneath the watchful portrait of Johns Hopkins, the first benefactor of Johns Hopkins University, at his namesake’s East Baltimore hospital. Though he created an incredible medical and educational legacy, the university reports that Johns Hopkins’ personal documents were lost or destroyed which leaves current scholars
Graphic art by Margaret Cartee Highly diverse: 20% women. Lampooning this graduate program advertisement lightened the hilarious tragedy of our thermodynamics course – a 17% female proportion. Out of a fairly diverse introductory calculus physics class, I persisted as the only female physics major over the last four years. Let
Graphic Artist: Margaret Cartee I stubbornly resisted watching John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars until a midnight flight back from an 8th grade field trip. Sitting in the middle seat between two pre-teen boys, I dutifully rolled my eyes at the mushy dates, poignant declarations, and tragi-romantic ending. Even
Imagine how expensive your flights would be if airplanes flew as rarely as space shuttles or Mars rovers. How would our society differ if only the opulent could afford this luxury? Many of us have probably heard of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’s campaigns towards consumer space travel through images
Everything that makes you special can be found in a few simple molecules stacked three billion times. Intrinsic to all organisms, the molecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) accounts for the diversity of life, undoubtedly due to its unique structure and various chemo-physical interactions. DNA’s structure ensures the smooth integration of gene
Do you believe the Earth is round? How do you know? Have you seen pictures from outer space? Read mathematical proofs? Or you just never questioned your beliefs before? It’s hard to think of another fundamental scientific truth like the round Earth model so many people accept. It shouldn’t come
What would you do if you just returned from deep space only to find the world in the next century? Many dystopian science fiction narratives use the traveler-out-of-time scenario where a person from one time period moves through time into another era through some sort of scientific or magical plot
Have you ever changed a flat tire? It’s often as straightforward as replacing the flat with a new spare. You can fix pretty much all simple mechanical and biomedical issues like this. If you need an organ, you find a donor match. If you need an immunity, you get a
