Tag: Made

Japanese culture is well-loved in many parts of the world. It may be no surprise that London and Paris are among its important hubs in Europe, but what about Kraków, Poland? In 2017, I travelled to this beautiful Polish city with a Polish friend who lived in London to attend a kimono event...

Go ahead, put me in a box. I certainly do. I spend a lot of time thinking about “the right way” to act and believe. I was raised in a very orthodox Mormon family where obedience was the norm and disobedience was met with harsh punishment. I’ve wasted hours of my life setting goals ...

Almost a month ago, I officially became a medical doctor. First and foremost, it was some surreal news to receive, however, I am learning to own it because I rightfully earned it. As of how I became one descendant of Hippocrates, I plan to write an account of the 11th hour drama that I experienced, ...

Every once in a while, medicine changes in a fundamental way, and we may not realize it while it’s happening. I wasn’t around in 1928 when Fleming discovered penicillin, or in 1953 when Watson, Crick, and Franklin characterized the double-helical structure of DNA. But looking at Medic...

This journey started with the very first model of the human body, and that is the “Venus of Willendorf”. That sculpt is currently exhibited in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. It’s a little Venus figure with exaggerated breasts, hips, and genital organs. Although some people s...

The suspects have been identified as Alexander Batista-Polanco, 21, of Camden, New Jersey, and Hendrick Pena-Fernandez, 21, of Pennsauken, New Jersey. Batista-Polanco, who had active warrants in New Jersey, was initially taken into custody in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to face burglary charges before b...

My fascination with machine learning began in early 2015, when I stumbled across genetic algorithms and neural networks. Popular videos on YouTube showed virtual organisms seemingly magically evolving complex behaviors without any human input. The videos explained that the algorithms were ...

AI in our mobile devices: Virtual Assistants Smartphones and AI-powered virtual assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa have made smartphones an essential part of modern life. These man-made intelligence driven apparatuses can address questions, set updates, control brilliant gadgets, and ...

The actor from Glee, Cory Monteith, had just died. The Glee creators aired the Quarterback episode where Monteith’s character, Finn Hudson, dies. I’m sitting on the couch with my twelve-year-old daughter watching this emotional scene of Finn’s mom crying after losing her son, and t...