It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories. Upon first skim, at…

Imagine beginning a new project with a team, a group of clones, an individual and multiple copies of themselves. Upon first evaluation, this may seem ideal. No arguing or disagreement, simply like minded humans working fluently at the task at hand. And though this may be true to an extent…

Outside of the actual “science”, the field of science itself has some issues that are to be considered, as they really impact the way in which the general public perceives it. The stereotypes have been reinforced throughout the years, really making some of the issues concrete. When delivering a speech…

Finding systemic issues within science has proven to not be a struggle, even still today. Before attempting to continue the discussion of the racial and gender oriented issues within sceience today, I first had to find a modern study, and turned to BBC News to do so. Being likely overly…

It’s no secret that women have been oppressed in science for about as long as science has been around, and this is usually attributed to the fact that they were degraded, disrespected and as a result received low expectations. Orekes explores the potential of deeper explanations behind their broad mistreatment…

When given the acronym SEVP, I believe it can be reasonably assumed that most individuals have no clue what it stands for. The Student and Exchange Visitor Program regulates what the same suggests, schooling for nonimmigrant students. As a student attending a diverse university, I was surprised to not have…

As made apparent throughout history, science was (and to a lesser degree is still) rather one minded. There is a lack of equal representation, excluding based on gender and race, which has been made apparent through agenda setting as well as different historical writings. The evaluation of the Manhattan project…

By now it’s safe to say that everyone is about ready for this virus to go away. COVID-19 has kept quite possibly every individual on Earth from living a normal life for about half a year now. Staying home, wearing masks everywhere, not being able to gather in large groups, and having to be conscious of just about every subtle move they make are all factors that would soon go away given the discovery of an effective vaccine. So, the question is, what is the big wait all about. It’s 2020 and our technologic capabilities have grown exponentially in the recent past, I mean we have the internet at our fingers in a moments notice, so we have to be able to whip up a vaccine for this world renowned bug, right? Well, vaccines, for a multitude of reasons, are not nearly that simple, and it actually oftentimes takes about ten years to effectively create a vaccine. To start, the process costs about $500 million dollars start to finish. Though money likely wouldn’t be a factor in the midst of a pandemic, this is a good representation of the complexity of the process of creation. At the molecular level, it needs to be understood what this virus looks like, the proteins it contains, and how to allow the body to create antibodies to resist the very specific contaminants of this virus. Given that a virus is much, much smaller than any type of bacteria, the difficulty of the process can be understood. Following a possible development, the vaccines must be tested and proven effective, which is quite possibly the most difficult part. But it isn’t necessarily the science that makes for issues, but rather the ethical issues regarding how to prove its effectiveness.