Posts
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Built on Pillars of Sand: The Coming Sand Crisis (2022)
Inside almost every building, bridge, and road is a crucial but underappreciated commodity: sand. Modern human society and industry is built…
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Promises (2023)
August 1975: the Banqiao Dam in Henan, China, collapsed, causing more than 200,000 civilian casualties. Often compared to the Chornobyl nuclear…
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The Debt Council: Reforming Public Finances for a Longtermist World (2023)
Democracy, as we know it, is not truly democratic. A group of people are heavily impacted by our decisions and yet…
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Queer Island: The Historical Roots of the Taiwanese Gay Rights Movement (2024)
This paper chronologically analyzes the role of homosexuality in Taiwan’s multicultural history, illuminating the parrallels of the Taiwanese homosexual experience and…
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Virtually Indistinguishable (2022)
An AI-generated image interpreting this story Ryan and his companion sat on opposite ends of a fibreoptic cable that passed through…
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The Mandan Experience with Westward Expansion (2022)
For centuries, the Mandan nation was the center of trade and agriculture on the Northern Great Plains, filled with vibrant culture…
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Webb’s wrestling team defies the trends (2023)
Wrestling is a primal sport, where one uses nothing but their body to perform a Shakespearian drama of anger, villainy, and…
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THE MODERN TIMES (2022)
2000-year-old engravings found on a rock in Egypt When the sun kills We die When our mothers die We kill As…
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Recipe for a Great Story (2023)
A beef bowl I made this summer This was my essay for Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop, discussing why I like…
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Close Reading of “Goodbye” and Surrounding Scenes (2023)
Throughout and before “Goodbye,” Bo Burnham reflects on his journey through the drudgery of quarantine, during which he produced Inside. As…
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Is Central Asia on the Verge of War? (2023)
I also made a Countryballs Youtube video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJg52IMScLg In September 2022, more than a hundred thousand Kyrgyz civilians clogged…
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Nature Human (2023)
Don’t tell me that nature is beautiful Nature sees no beauty; it sees no order It doesn’t serve us our dome…
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