Ms. Flansburg and Mr. Ulhaq enjoy vegan food together in Thailand. Image from Flansburg The vegan, vegetarian, or plant-based diet has only recently been accepted in mainstream society, due to rising concerns about the environment and animal rights. But in C... More »
As of December 7, 2022, the National Health Commission (NHC) held a press conference in which they released new and improved Covid measures. During the past few months, in Guangzhou, there were lockdown measures, mass testings, and cancelation of public trans... More »
Shanghai went into an immediate city-wide lockdown and came up with the zero-Covid policy on April 4, 2022. So many things have happened in Shanghai since the lockdown, such as people being deprived of food and water, people being denied access to medical care... More »
On January 7, in Baltimore, Mayland, doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center performed a heart transplant surgery on David Bennett, age 57. What is special about this transplant is that the new heart is a genetically-engineered pig heart, experime... More »
Although recent news about COVID cases and variants has renewed anxiousness about the pandemic, the gradual, international rollout of vaccines has given a rough sense of closure to this chapter of our histories. In the past year, by changing the way we travel ... More »
Zoom conferences, Facetime dinners, virtual birthday parties. We have tucked away our lives into an unreachable, sequestered cocoon for over a year due to the mass surge of the pandemic. Now, it is time to emerge from the chrysalis, but this process may be int... More »
Throughout our lives, we learn a lot of useful things at home, in school, online – but rarely do we learn how to sleep. Most people assume there isn’t much to it, just grab a pillow and a blanket shut your eyes, and bam— healthy sleep. However, the reality abo... More »
British regulators approved the deliberate COVID-19 infections of unvaccinated volunteers. The reason? To determine the smallest amount of virus needed for an infection. The scientists conducting this study hope to eventually infect vaccinated volunteers wit... More »
As face coverings are becoming more prevalent, experts believe that discarded and abandoned masks are causing much concern to the environment. Non-profit environmental organizations like Opération Mer Propre, as well as non-profit syndicates based in Asia such... More »
26-year-old Korean actress Song Yoo-Jung was reported to have been found dead in her apartment in Seoul, South Korea on the January 23 according to her affiliated representation, Sublime Artist Agency. The agency declared her death on the January 25, 2021 thro... More »
The United States has started distributing the vaccine for Covid-19. The public isn’t as willing to take the vaccine as one might think. After the vaccine was finalized, only 63% of the public claimed they would take the vaccination according to the Center for... More »
As evident in today’s surge of dismaying news headlines, the COVID-19 pandemic has immensely impinged on the lives of many and people have been yearning for a vaccine to supply preventive measures against the novel-coronavirus. Here is a brief outlook into som... More »