Nearly a century and a decade ago on March 8, women suffragists in Russia began a strike for “Peace and Bread”. I’m writing this while sitting with a cup of coffee and butter slathered on two thick slices of sourdough—a privilege I get to enjoy every day. But sometimes I don’t know peace as a contemporary woman. Despite the massive progress we have seen towards gender equality, frequent setbacks from the reigning administration...

With 2025 now in full swing, it has so far been a time of forward-thinking and goal-setting. The end of a year, however, is usually the opposite. It is a time of introspection, reflection, and most importantly, celebration. As I reflected, I marveled at how so much has changed. Not much remains constant, but one of the few things that does, at least in my life, is music. I am of the impression that music...

Aristotle argued that oligarchies and democracies become the prevailing forms of government over 2 millennium ago. Today, the so-called American democracy, if it may soon still be called that, is at its tipping point under the contemporaneous political climate. Since the threat of government shutdown this month, billionaire Elon Musk openly derailed a critical government spending measure, primarily on healthcare relief and assistance. Musk, who recently funded Trump’s campaign for $277 million dollars,...

2024 made a lot of waves in science. AI explosive’s impact on our lives continues to yield improvements on logical performance, such as Google’s quantum error corrections, and AlphaProof which trains the ability of AI systems to do mathematical computations. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to its pioneers of artificial neural networks, which isn’t a surprise considering AI’s overwhelming success. I’m not an expert on AI, and my opinion piece...

Every day we are faced with a seemingly endless amount of responsibilities that demand attention — from taking care of household chores, to walking the dog, to responding to work emails. In our modern-day society, there never seems to be enough time in the day to simply exist. For someone with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it only makes it that much harder to keep up with the many demands of life. Mundane, everyday tasks...

Incidentally, I wept during one of my shifts at the observatory upon reaching the epilogue of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Insulted and Humiliated. The roman-feuilleton, published in 1861 after his Siberian exile, marked the beginning of Dostoevsky’s trove of powerful literature among the likes of The House of the Dead, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed/The Devils, and my favorite: The Brothers Karamazov. Albeit...

”All I do is keep running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence.” -Haruki Murakami

When was the last time you thought about where your food came from? In America, among several contemporary privileges, food is an excess. But when we grow food on our planet and export goods and produce, it becomes our anthropological responsibility to do so sustainably for the environment and our humanity. Luxury items especially, such as herbs and spices, coffee, and chocolate, are subject to extortion of habitats and its people.

“…or lose it.” I tested this proverb for 7 months, intending to take a break from numbers (TW), maximizing efficiency, analyzing every detail, and wanting to take control of my perspective to improve my chances against the toil for perfection (Remember when Solaria Chip tried posting everyday? Then I trained nonstop for over 2 months into my first marathon. I just love to send it).

Over the last several decades, nuclear fusion has been regarded as a potential alternative energy source in an effort to help solve our growing climate crisis. I addressed nuclear power in a previous blog post, discussing the current socioeconomic discourse surrounding the technology. This post will take a deeper dive into the science behind nuclear power, specifically in regards to nuclear fusion. Unlike fission, which involves using energetic neutrons to split a...

The coffee industry is continually booming, with a staggering 2 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide on a daily basis. I personally can’t go a day without it; I always start my day with a cup of freshly brewed coffee (preferably from a local roaster) with some almond milk creamer. If I’m at a cafe, I will always order a latte, or a cold brew if it’s a warm day. I...

Congratulations, you made it to May… but possibly struggling at the end of the day? You’ve been at work for hours, staring at a screen answering emails, taking meetings and calls. On break or lunch, maybe you spent some time scrolling through social media or texting memes to your friends. Tired, you go home and turn on the television while simultaneoulsy doing some more mind-numbing scrolling in an attempt to disengage from reality. Or maybe...