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Nov 30, 2022

What We Do With Our Waste

For a few months in my junior year of high school I worked online for a small consulting company that was hired to recommend the best overseas waste management company for the international offices of a large corporation. These companies– like Waste Vision of the Netherlands and Sensoneo of Slovakia– sold sensors meant to be… 

Nov 30, 2022

From Megadeth to Math Rock: The Evolution of Guitar Techniques

Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From is a book focused on, unsurprisingly, how good ideas come about. The main claim is that ideas are not random or spontaneous, but that they grow from the development of preexisting concepts. This is known as the ‘adjacent possible’, and is the foundational principle of this article. The… 

Nov 29, 2022

Amplifying the Human Experience with Cochlear Implants

Recently the FDA has approved an improved commercial cochlear Implant: The Nucleus 8 sound processor by the company named Cochlear. With this, the technology becomes smaller, lighter, and this specific model adds Bluetooth compatibility. This is not a new technology by any means, the first form of this technology was implemented in 1961. In the… 

Nov 28, 2022

The uneven effects of climate change

Climate change is often painted as a universal problem. Something that affects all of humanity, a global fight for the future of this world. This is a useful narrative to the extent that it may galvanize more people to spend money and time to solve the problem, but portraying it like this instead of showing… 

Nov 27, 2022

Can we save our cities from climate disasters?

One portion of the MOSE structure; it rises more than five stories when fully extended. I recently came across this article on the innovative flood system that the Italian government has adopted to safeguard Venice and its lagoon. While it’s a masterful feat of engineering, it does raise some questions on the limits of technology…