Viewing human behavior, and society through the lens of economics is an excellent way to understand the world in a more rational, objective way. Looking at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the first to levels of basic humans needs revolves around economics. The very basis of human lives revolves on the need for food, water, shelter, clothing, security, health, resources, and property. After that has been […]

As a young woman currently enrolled in college there are many things I feel like I need to protect myself against such as sexual harassment, rape and an unwanted pregnancy. “Each year nearly half or 45% of the 6. 1 million pregnancies in the U. S. are unintended; the rate of unintended pregnancy among poor women is five times the rate of women above the […]

The 1995 classic, Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling a classic that’s been the inspiration to movies like Mean Girls and other teenage comedies. Little do people know that it’s actually inspired by Jane Austen’s book Emma. The movie follows Cher and her adventures in attempting to play matchmaker. She and her friend Dionne attempt to transform the lives of a new student, Tai. Things don’t […]

What would it be if the world is without colors? At some point in time, television shows in black and white. In the world that we live today, the advancement of technology brings color everywhere. It changed the way we live, communicate, travel, and learn. Classrooms have evolved from the blackboard (green in color) with yellow chalk to electronic devices with thousands of colors. There […]

One of man’s most important concerns today is to produce enough food to feed an increasingly growing population. For this it needs breeders, planters and farmers who use methods that respect biodiversity. In that line the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC) of the USA suggests that people should adopt “agroecologically based methods such as organic fertilizers, crop rotation, and cover crops. ” Using science-based practices, […]

Ten years ago tomorrow, the US government allowed the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers to go bust, an event that seemed to mark a historical denouement: the end of an American century culminating in humiliating failure of its economic policy. In the days that followed, the shock waves crippled other major institutions, petrified money markets and ultimately destroyed millions of jobs. The banking crisis was […]

Due to the modern prevalence of autism diagnoses in children and the lack of scientific understanding about the causal factors of ASD, it is clear that those entering the healthcare field should have a certain understanding of this area. Numerous researchers propose theories on what is most successful in terms of intervention for those with ASD, but I believe that a combination of daily life […]

There are differing opinions on whether the change of how people called themselves happened abruptly or as a small buffering out of the terms. The more supported idea is that since Amerigo Vespucci was thought to have actually discovered America before Christopher Columbus the Americas should be named after him. Around 1775 is when colonists stopped referring to themselves as “colonists”, “Englishmen” or by their […]

Bitcoin has been hit the most by new rules and regulations coming up. It seemed like the odds were against the cryptocurrency since the beginning of 2018 after the virtual currency took a drastic fall through to $12,504. Thomas Glucksmann, head of APAC business development at cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin said that bitcoin would push $50, 000 by December this year. Christine Lagard, the International Monetary […]

Post-prohibition, the matter of alcohol regulation in our country has primarily been left to the states. The national drinking age is of course a federalized standard, excise taxes exist, and seventeen of the fifty states do prohibit any of their localities from going dry. In practically all other concerns save those listed it is the duty of individual communities to decide just how to go […]