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Autism Awareness Month💗🎉

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Every year on April 2nd, World Autism Awareness Day is internationally recognized. The purpose of this celebratory day is to encourage the Member States of the United Nations to take more measures to raise awareness about people with autism. This year it was t... More »

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Mini-Mart Dining: Convenience at a Cost?

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You are walking around the streets of Seoul, South Korea. You spot a convenience store and enter, expecting drinks or a bags of crisps. However, you’re amazed at the shelves packed with various cup noodles and packed meals. Unlike convenience stores in many ot... More »

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Is Modern Medicine Actually Killing Us?

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What may be saving you may also kill you in the process. Antibiotics Resistance (AR): this term refers to when microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites) change or evolve in order to survive in an environment where they are constantly exposed to anti... More »

Abs 101: Advice from Ibrahim Bah

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If you came to the talent show, you would have seen Ibrahim Bah’s rock-hard abs when he took off his shirt at the end of the senior dance. Summer is three months away, so it is time to start watching our diets and get some exercise in! Ibrahim has a ton of adv... More »

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Outgoing = Success? Uh, no.

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Somehow, we seem to associate being outgoing with being successful—but that is a fallacious belief. Extroverts merely share their ideas more. In addition, statistical evidence shows that extroverts earn more money, and that can may be equated to success for so... More »

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Have AISG Students “Bean” Eating Well?

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Are our Rams eating healthy? A lot of students buy school lunch, and concerns are arising on whether or not the lunch is nutritional. Is it the responsibility of the school to ensure that students are eating a nutritious lunch everyday? It certainly seems that... More »

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Sleep

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How much sleep does the average human need? A healthy person should sleep around 10-8 hours a day to run at full capacity, but with the short lifespan humans have, there will always be many things left undone and many ideas left unexplored; there just never se... More »

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Pollution Strikes Again!

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Over the past decade, pollution in developing countries has been one of the main reasons for a decrease in public health, and one of the top 5 reasons for death in Delhi. In the month of December 2015, Delhi, the capital of India, had its air quality 1.5 times... More »

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Ebola Vaccine Soon-To-Be Licensed

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The Ebola outbreak was first reported in West Africa in the March of 2014, and has become one of the deadliest occurrences of the disease since it was just discovered in 1976. As of January 13, 2016, there has been 11,3015 recorded deaths due to Ebola globally... More »

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ADHD in U.S. Increases by 43 Percent

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As Attention Disorder Hyperactivity Disorder, shortened and most well known as ADHD, is commonly interpreted as a disorder that causes extreme behavior, resulting the incapability to focus for long periods of time, it has been a subject that has been largely i... More »

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Beijing Issues ‘Red Alert’ for Pollution

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On Monday, December 7th, the Beijing city government issued the first Red Alert as their pollution levels reached hazardous. Schools and outdoor construction sites were closed, and the amount of cars allowed on the roads were restricted. The Municipal Bureau o... More »

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Movember and The Moustache Men

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The month of November—also known as Movember in some parts of the world—is a month where a band of perfectly ordinary men take on the brave task of growing their moustaches to raise awareness of men’s health issues—notably, diseases such as prostate and testic... More »