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May 4, 2024
ESO/L.Calçada / CC BY 4.0 A team of researchers recently found that the most energetic gamma-ray burst “brightest of all time” did not produce any heavy metals as previously expected.
ARANTZA GARCIA / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR This week’s picks include Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album The Tortured Poets Department, a memoir about a woman’s relationship with her dead mother and a literary festival at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
THE COME UP SHOW / CC BY-ND 2.0 Drake retaliates against Kendrick Lamar in a leaked song, attacking Lamar’s reputation, claiming both extortion and a decrease in commercial success.
JUMP BRIMAN / PUBLIC DOMAIN American rapper Flo Milli will perform at the Spring Fair 2024 Concert on Saturday, April 27.
COURTESY OF SAMUEL KOYFMAN Koyfman’s passions for trading, music and languages have shaped his college journey.
ARANTZA GARCIA / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR The Editorial Board argues that Hopkins must do more to support women on campus.
ARANTZA GARCIA / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR Koldas rereads old journal entries and promises herself to learn how to forgive.
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The Bell Lab recently published a method to identify COVID-19 using AI analysis of ultrasound images.
ARUSA MALIK / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR Spring is officially here with the warm weather and more sun! Get out there for goat yoga, maker’s market and a baseball game!
COURTESY OF KAORI TAYLOR Students and hired actors involved in making Lin’s film Red Prior smile for a group photo while working on the film set.
CITY OF SKOPJE / PUBLIC DOMAIN Pryor argues that changing zoning laws will promote the construction of affordable housing.
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN / PUBLIC DOMAIN Branson highlights how Ohtani is only the biggest and latest name to be connected to the controversial activity of sports gambling.
COURTESY OF WILL KIRK The mechanic, Federzoni (Asa Woo; left), takes a look at the cosmos through Galileo's (Katherine Budinger; right) amplified adaptation of the telescope.
COURTESY OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS The building is used as a convening space for Johns Hopkins Club members, but it will be repurposed temporarily as a study space next year.
DARRYL LEJA / PUBLIC DOMAIN Pop, a professor at the University of Maryland, discussed the current computational challenges in microbiome research and shared how his lab developed a tool in response to those challenges.
COURTESY OF LEO QI Students gathered to hear speeches from members of Epidemic Proportions during its 20th anniversary celebration.
COURTESY OF ARUSA MALIK Arusa and her friends exploring St. John’s College at the heart of Annapolis.
GAGE SKIDMORE / CC-BY-SA 2.0 Mahto argues that Romney will offer students a perspective on politics that they may otherwise disregard.
COURTESY OF AASHI MENDPARA Mendpara reflects on her former obsession with teen magazines.
