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(04/01/21 4:00pm)
APRIL FOOL’S: This article was published as part of The News-Letter’s annual April Fool’s edition, an attempt at adding some humor to a newspaper that is normally very serious about its reporting.
(09/11/14 5:57pm)
As President Barack Obama attempts to assemble an international coalition to go after the Islamic militant group that calls itself the Islamic State, we are reminded that the threat of global terrorism is still an ever-present reality. But since our declared war on terrorism shortly after 9/11, are we any safer from a coordinated attack against the United States than we were on that fatal day 13 years ago? The answer to the question is complicated and subjective. Preparing against a terrorist plot is akin to preparing for the next viral outbreak. The threat is global, diffuse, and constantly evolving in unpredictable ways. Natural selection almost guarantees that even our best defenses will eventually be outmaneuvered. As a result, we are forced to be reactionary with our goals, focusing on identification, containment and future prevention of threats.
(05/02/14 1:36am)
This past Saturday marks the 11th annual physics fair, an event put on by physics graduate students as well as undergrads showcasing physics to the Baltimore community. The atmosphere was lively – food was served while families and children enjoyed great weather and fun activities. Through the use of live demos, games, and interactive activities the physics fair aimed at getting kids to associate math and science with positive experiences, not just the challenges that are associated with learning it.
(04/24/14 10:31pm)
Whether it’s going back home on Thanksgiving, or coming back from studying abroad, many of us have fallen victim to jet lag. We find ourselves waiting impatiently for our bodies to catch up to our new schedules, sometimes trying to reassign our circadian rhythm, or internal clock, with caffeine or nyquil. Like the hangover, jet lag holds special place in daily conversation as one of those ailments for which everyone has a remedy but no one has a cure. Until now, that is, as a group of researchers at the University of Michigan believe they have developed a system to help global travelers overcome their jet lag quicker and easier than ever before.
(04/17/14 4:10pm)
With over 10 trillion bacteria living in our gut, the human digestive system is more of an ecosystem than a series of organs. As human hosts, we hold crucial symbiotic relationships with many of our bacterial residents. In return for much needed nutrients and a protected living environment, much our healthy flora provides necessary digestive and immune functions. However, much of the activity of the estimated 500-1000 species of bacterial inhabitants of our gut is largely unknown.
(04/03/14 3:21pm)
Citizens of the rural town of Oso, Wash. were greeted by tragedy on Mar. 23 as a waterlogged hillside gave way and unleashed a tsunami-like wave of earth, destroying dozens of homes residing in the river valley below.
(03/27/14 2:08pm)
Internet use has become such a ubiquitous part of everyday life, it is hard to imagine living permanently disconnected from the World Wide Web. Even when our eyes aren’t glued to a screen, our mobile devices are set to pull emails, Facebook statuses, instant messages, sports scores or breaking news at a minute’s notice. The internet, particularly through social media, has forged a kind of global community. It is easy to forget that the majority of the world, approximately 65 percent, is not plugged in.
(01/30/14 10:34pm)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is on pace to become, if it hasn’t already, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation of our generation.
(11/22/13 1:50am)
For a soldier wounded in combat or civilian hurt in a car crash, pain does not end in the emergency room. For many amputees the physical hardship has only just begun. An amputation is immune to time and rehabilitation; it results not only in a physical loss but also in the loss of the victim’s ability to carry out normal life as he or she once knew it. Most will go on to receive prosthetics of some sort, but as inanimate limbs, a prosthetic is inherently limited in its potential to restore varied function.
(11/15/13 8:26pm)
As the next wave of court hearings over patent disputes between Apple and Samsung rage on, investors are growing tepid over Samsung stock, which lost one fifth of its value from June to to mid-July. But it’s not Samsung’s viability that has some investors worried; the Korean handset maker currently makes 1 out of every 3 phones sold worldwide. It sells more than twice as many as its next closest competitor, Apple.
(10/31/13 4:44pm)
The transformation in the mobile industry in the past eight years has been truly extraordinary. Phones have evolved from tools for simple telecommunications to mobile computing powerhouses. Mobile phone brands pride themselves on their commitment to continually to improve on their products; they manage to make their products slimmer, sleeker and faster year after year. And almost just as miraculously, demand in the mobile phone industry remains strong despite near market saturation in developed nations.
(10/18/13 9:09pm)
When most think of the tobacco industry in this nation, they think of one that is in decline. While Big Tobacco held incredible amount of influence and controlled significant mindshare among the citizens of this nation, this no longer remains the case.
(10/14/13 5:38pm)
We may not realize it, but we live in a world with particle accelerators all around us. While, the most commonly well known accelerator, The Large Hadron Collider, which recently went operational, is capable of moving protons and even entire atomic nuclei at speeds approaching relativity, we’ve been doing the same thing with electrons without many of us realizing it. From Dental X-Rays, to Security Scanning Devices and Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI), atomic particles moving at the speed of light are being harnessed for a variety of practical tasks all around us not including research in physics and many other sciences dependent on imaging technologies.
(09/27/13 3:22pm)
Tumors, both cancerous and noncancerous, can arise when cellular pathways that control cell proliferation and tissue growth go awry. Many ongoing research efforts are underway to identify the crucial genetic underpinning of such pathways.
(09/13/13 2:39am)
Down Syndrome is the disorder resulting from a partial or complete copy of the 21st chromosome. In fact, another name for Down Syndrome is trisomy 21. It affects nearly 1 in 700 Americans, and crosses all racial and economic boundaries. Down syndrome is an inherently complicated disease to treat with potentially over 300 misappropriated genes on that 21st chromosome.
(09/23/10 11:08pm)
Lisbon, the new album from the Walkmen, is a surprisingly upbeat and refreshing record for the D.C. area rockers. The album can be best summarized by one line that frontman Hamilton Leithauser sings on “Woe is Me”: “Don’t get heavy / Let’s be light.” This creed emanates throughout every track.
(03/22/07 5:00am)
Renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the United Nations Millennium Project, spoke to the Hopkins community on Tuesday, pushing for a shift in the nation's focus toward ending extreme poverty.
(02/08/07 5:00am)
The Foreign Affairs Symposium released its speaker lineup for the 2007 Spring semester, with a series of events to showcase both well-known speakers and expert panels on specific issues.
(01/27/07 5:00am)
Baltimore Ravens Coach Brian Billick has been chosen to deliver the keynote address to this year's graduating students at the Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony on May 17, 2007.
(09/20/06 5:00am)
The Office of the Dean of Student Life has implemented Faculty Associates and Faculty Fellow programs seeking to encourage relaxed and informal student-faculty relations.