Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a famous American TV show that aired from 1997 to 2003 for seven seasons. The show follows the main character Buffy Summers, a high school student who is also a chosen vampire slayer. She has been given the power and responsibility to fight against vampires, demons, and other supernatural beings that threaten the world. Buffy and her friends navigate … [Read more...] about Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2 Episode 22 Allegory on Queerness and the Coming Out Experience
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Eyewitness Testimony – Part 2
In the last blog, I elucidated factors in the acquisition and storage of memories that can impact their accuracies. In this blog, I intend to discuss factors in memory retrieval that can lead to false memories. A very well-known incident of mistaken identity is Jennifer Thomson’s identification of Ronald Cotton as her rapist (The Perfect Witness). After giving police a … [Read more...] about Eyewitness Testimony – Part 2
Face Filters: Augmenting or Losing Reality?
After acquiring Looksery, a specialized face-tracking technology from Ukraine, Snapchat introduced the first widely used set of “Lenses”- AR face filters that merged the user’s real world with the digital world inside their phone. They have since been pioneers in the AR filter scene, and even democratized filter creation with the release of their desktop app Lens Studio in … [Read more...] about Face Filters: Augmenting or Losing Reality?
Linguistics Totally has a Significant Impact on Women, Right?
“Is she sick?” This was a question that people had asked my mom from the moment I could speak. I learned how to talk early, carrying full conversations with my parents' friends by the age of two. The abnormal depth and raspiness of my two-year-old voice shocked people, often leading them to ask my parents if I had a cold or if I was getting over a sickness. … [Read more...] about Linguistics Totally has a Significant Impact on Women, Right?
The Silver Tsunami: Compassionate Release Dignifies Elderly Offenders
I. Introduction Dignity: a concept that several constitutions enshrine and our political and religious leaders often invoke.1The idea of dignity lies at the heart of numerous legal and ethical discussions.2 Our institutions and laws embrace, hail, and employ the concept to assess and establish our society’s ideals and practices.3In legal scholarship, however, dignity … [Read more...] about The Silver Tsunami: Compassionate Release Dignifies Elderly Offenders