Awareness

With the global virus claiming headlines across the world, other crises have been sidelined, including the massive bushfires that threatened Australia starting in September 2019. In honor of Hug an Aussie Day yesterday, we’re taking a look at the latest…Read More

This month the U.S. is celebrating the largest literary celebration in the world, National Poetry Month! Begun by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this month is to spread awareness about the important role that poets and poetry play…Read More

Today is March 23rd. With many of us in quarantine and almost entirely detached from the rest of the world barring when we remote call into work or classes, it’s easy to forget what day it is, so I am…Read More

March is Save Your Vision Month and we wanted to do our part by bringing to everyone’s attention the importance of more frequent visits to the optometrist. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 2.2 billion people in…Read More

Image: Ecns.cn In times of distress like we are currently experiencing on a global scale, it’s hard to think about anything else but our health and the health of our loved ones. Reflecting on that, we thought about some things…Read More

Source: CNBC Do you ever wonder about what goes on in the inner-workings of brilliant minds? Netflix’s Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, seeks to unveil just this, delving into Gates’ mind by uncovering details of his upbringing, his character-defining…Read More

Five years ago today, the world celebrated the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Begun by the United Nations in 2015, this day of public awareness aims to address the unequal access women and girls have to STEM-related…Read More

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching (don’t worry, this serves as a heads up if you had forgotten). The shelves of your favorite stores will be filled with teddy bears, flowers, and chocolates in every size and shape imaginable if they…Read More

The graveyard of electronic devices is filled with the decaying corpses of discarded batteries, ’turtleneck’ charging cables, iDogs, the famous Razor flip-phone, and even the odd iPod nano. But it is also the new home of much more recent devices,…Read More

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 20, 2020, marks the 34th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy. The holiday, known as “a day on, not a day off” encourages…Read More