Apr 15, 2012

Darrin Schultz It’s lunchtime.  Your friend wants to meet for sandwiches at DeCafé, but you politely decline because you ate a salad several months ago and haven’t been hungry since.  Instead, you decide to spread nude outside, Harkness style, soaking up the sun’s rays.  You’ve been doing this every day and are quite con- tent with your seemingly...

Feb 17, 2012

By Anna Dardick   The healthcare industry today is characterized by recent technological advances, utilizing complex scientific principles to increase longevity and enhance quality of life. Human medical practice began simply, though, with only a sharp rock and a skull. Trepanation (treh-pun-ation) is the practice of boring a hole into the skull of a live,...

Feb 17, 2012

I imagine everyone’s looking forward to the holidays. Honestly, I am still re-living Halloween and watching my favorite zombie videos; I just love zombie outbreaks. In many horror stories, a zombie outbreak is triggered by a virus mutation that spreads across the human population. Viruses are pieces of genetic information coated in protein, and lack properties...