Archive for February, 2012
Rolling Thunder: Racing Across America
For the Rolling Thunder Special Needs Program—a running and wheelchair racing club based in Long Island, New York for athletes with disabilities—the Sunday morning run is the last run of the training week. At 8 AM one Sunday morning in December, the distance runners on the team gathered at the gates of Connetquot State Park [...]
Generation Y: The Internet’s Effects on Cognition and Education
It is difficult for young people today to imagine a time without text messaging and internet surfing. The current generation of college students in particular have literally grown up with the internet, and are often more technologically literate than their parents and professors. Studies have shown that young people’s frequent use of the internet affected [...]
Another Rhino Species Poached Out of Existence
The Western Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis longipes) of Africa was declared extinct by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last November. There have been no sightings of the sub-species since 2006 despite intensive survey throughout its Cameroon homeland.1 Two other rhino species, the Northern white rhino in central Africa and the Javan [...]
Cancer: A New Age in Treatment?
Cancer cells always seem to have a way of evading the body’s natural defenses and cell death. Thus, cancer has proved to be one of the most difficult diseases to treat. However, the prognosis for the disease is shifting its course. Recently, researchers across the world have begun to create vaccines that fight cancer cells [...]
Security vs. Environment: Issue-Framing in the Nord Stream Pipeline Project
By: Marina Stefanova, Georgetown University April 2010 marked the beginning of the construction of Nord Stream, a controversial joint project of Gazprom, BASF SE/Wintershall Holding, E.ON Ruhrgas, and N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie. When completed, the pipeline will be 1,220 km long and will run on the Baltic seabed from Vyborg, Russia to Greifswald, Germany. The pipeline will [...]
Building New Foundations: Recent Advances in Tissue Engineering
Since the development of in-depth stem cell research and particularly the ability to induce pluripotency – the ability to differentiate cells into many or all cell-types – the promise of generating replacement tissues and organs for patients has been a virtual “holy grail” for the field of regenerative medicine. Many advances have been made in [...]
Antibiotic Resistance: Combating An Important Problem
The antibiotic is a cornerstone of today’s medical treatment, but with the increasing rate of bacteria that are steadily growing impervious to these chemical treatments, should we consider the other options as valid alternatives? [1]. Starting in the 1920’s with the discovery of penicillin, a surge of antibiotic discovery enveloped the scientific world as scientists [...]
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