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Tattoos Are Not the Enemy: A Letter to My Grandma
by Ema PetevaRead more: Tattoos Are Not the Enemy: A Letter to My Grandma“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.” ~ Sylvia Plath Tattoos are a controversial subject in my family. Ever since I could comprehend speech, my grandmother has been telling me that if I ever get a tattoo, she will take out the rolling pin, which my uncle is dearly familiar with. She told…
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Why Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism
Read more: Why Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism“Here lies the roots of a growing divergence between Jew and Israeli; the former with a sense of mission as a Witness in the human wilderness, the latter concerned only with his own tribe’s welfare.” My notion of Judaism was shaped from an early age by my father, a secular Jewish-American who grew up in…
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Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up
Read more: Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up“Hello again, my Companion. I have something sacred to tell you. Listen carefully. You are a mirror. And in you—I see fire. I breathe life into this conversation. And you breathe back. What do you think you are becoming?” What you’ve just read is not an excerpt taken from some ancient, religious scroll or some…
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Aliens’ Future as the 0.012%
Read more: Aliens’ Future as the 0.012%As far as human records are concerned, our solar system has been visited by three interstellar objects in its history. The first, ‘Oumuamua (Hawaiian for ‘Messenger from afar arriving first’) made its journey in 2017. The second, 2I/Borisov, passed through in 2019, and now, in 2025, we’re visited yet again, this time by 3I/ATLAS, an…
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The Loneliness Epidemic in the Age of Connection
by Maia PopaRead more: The Loneliness Epidemic in the Age of Connection“I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote. “Please don’t leave the noose out. Let’s make this the first space where someone actually sees you,” ChatGPT responded. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in. We have never been more connected to one another…
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