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  In September of 1993, Starbucks had two-hundred stores nationwide[1]. Currently, Starbucks has over eleven thousand stores in the United States alone[2]. Starbucks fundamentally changed how the United States treats coffee. Everyone became a gourmet coffee drinker, no longer content with brewing Folgers in the morning and throwing in some cream and sugar. Starbucks … [Read more...] about What’s Eatin’ You: Corporatizing Indie Coffee

One of the many aspects of medicine that I find fascinating is the continuous technological advancements in the field. I particularly enjoy advancements in surgical operating rooms, such as the increased use of robotic surgery to minimize invasiveness and reduce post-operation recovery time. As a neuroscience major, however, I often find myself studying the structure and … [Read more...] about Trust Me, I’m Premed: Brain-Machine Interface

America is the world’s most powerful country in the world. Its involvement in foreign policies is not only constant but also of critical importance: America’s decision-making can make or break countries, build peace or send us on the path to a world war. Despite this unrivaled level of power, regular Americans do not seem to earn such global responsibility with their level of … [Read more...] about A-broadening Your Horizons: Where Is the UK, Again?

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize which she won for her brilliant humanitarian efforts and her voice in the fight for equal education for girls. Malala's message began with the call to promote education for girls in her home country Pakistan. She claims that her vision for the right for girls to be educated began at age eleven and despite the … [Read more...] about You Don’t Have to Win the Nobel Peace Prize to be Noble

  Proposition 46 addresses important issues in healthcare, but it does so in a hasty and haphazard fashion. The three provisions of Proposition 46 are to require drug testing for physicians, require physicians to check an online database prior to prescribing narcotics, and to increase the cap on “pain and suffering” damages in malpractice. At first, these provisions … [Read more...] about Trust Me, I’m Premed: Proposition 46