While living in her on-campus sorority house, Kate Green understood that contracting COVID-19 was a very real possibility. However, after one and a half semesters and a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, she assumed that she had made it out of the woods safely. Unfortunately, that assumption proved to be incorrect, as she tested positive for COVID-19 just one…
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Jamie Bartlett discusses Illegal Darknet Becoming Mainstream
Illegal pornography and illicit drugs for sale, commercial hacking services for hire, and libraries full of pirated books. These are just some of the things that journalist Jamie Bartlett stumbled upon while browsing through the darknet. In a TED talk given to a large audience at an official TED conference in June of 2015, Bartlett explained that the darknet is…
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Americans Grapple With COVID-19 Vaccine Decision
As the United States works to combat the devastating impacts of COVID-19 and put a stop to the pandemic, many Americans are grappling with the decision of whether or not they will get the COVID-19 vaccine. Some Americans are eager to get the vaccine while others are adamant against it. The vaccines, recently developed by companies Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson…
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Growth of Body Positivity Crushes Diet Culture
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sophomore, Ava Schenk, was no stranger to diet culture. Diet culture is the system of beliefs that a person’s value comes from their body size, in large part. Diet culture asserts that it is “good” to be skinny and “bad” to be fat, thus suggesting that the person is only as good as their…