The Sock Dilemma
Why do socks disappear? Is it divine intervention, machine malfunction, or human indolence? Is it: This: Or:
Read More…Author: Aaron White
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Appassionata
This evening I had the privilege to watch the renowned pianist Stephen Hough perform at Royal Festival Hall. The performance was magnificent – a beautiful balance between the melancholic serenity of Debussy and vitality of Beethoven. With my discounted student ticket, I was not placed far in the back as I initially expected, but right […]
Read More…Democratic Dilemma
Effectively dealing with the millions of refugees that will result from global warming, as well as transforming our entire energy system from fossil fuel dependence to renewable technology, will both require massive infrastructure projects. It appears that these programs will necessitate a centralization of power to manage such a monumental task. Throughout history, large scale […]
Read More…Bewildered Old Man
Whenever we arrive in an unfamiliar environment, what is the first thing we tend to do? We don’t look around at the surrounding landscape, perhaps the sun, the stars, a quiet old man sitting on a stoop across the street casually observing our instinctive 21st century actions. We open the respective map application on our […]
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The Ontological Distinction
“At the Einsatzgruppen stage, the rounded-up victims were brought in front of machine guns and killed at point-blank range. Though efforts were made to keep the weapons at the longest possible distance from the ditches into which the murdered were to fall, it was exceedingly difficult for the shooters to overlook the connection between shooting […]
Read More…Urban Dwellers
Why are pigeons in every city that I have ever been to? Did they develop with modernity and the process of urbanization? Or are they, as an old friend of mine once believed, just well disguised robotic spying mechanisms? Well, after a bit of research, I discovered a couple interesting insights into the rise of this […]
Read More…Simulated Stimulation
Just think about this headline for a second (recognizing that you are in front of a screen reading it): Most Adults Spend More Time on Their Digital Devices Than They Think. Or this one from 2014: Britons spend more time on tech than asleep, study suggests. The statistics are staggering yet relatable. The 2014 article maintains […]
Read More…The Innocent Victims
“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own” -Aldous Huxley Nearly 50 million children around the world are fleeing war or extreme poverty. Many […]
Read More…The Loudest Silence
“Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest” Thousands of students from all across the United States came together today to participate in the March For Our Lives rallies. One of the most powerful and heart-wrenching moments occurred during Emma Gonzalez’s speech, when she paused for 6 minutes […]
Read More…A Matter of Perception
When looking at a Rembrandt from the normative distance that people usually adhere to in a museum, one can see the pronounced strokes and thick globs of paint. Yet when one takes a couple steps back, sometimes even all the way to the other end of the gallery – at just the right distance, as though […]
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The Junction 