Category Archives: Science and Technology

I Feel I’m Tech Inept!

As I move further through my degree, I keep finding certain shortcomings that bother me like a small cut doused in lemon juice. These aren’t social, educational or grade faults but one that I feel may be even worse, feeling …

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Does Having the Newest iPhone Keep You in the “Now?”

Over the years, Apple has become one of the biggest electronic companies worldwide. With their sleek designs on phones, tablets and computers and their software that allows the users to maximize their usage, Apple is easily said the most popular …

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99 Friends But I Haven’t Met One

As you go through your status feed on your Facebook account, one thing is most likely going to cross your mind at some point or another: Who is this person?  We are constantly adding, or “friending”, people on Facebook and …

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Libraries Turn to Digital Lending

Brick and mortar bookstores have become a thing of the past. The local Barnes & Noble is now a deserted building filled with empty shelves. They’ve been replaced by the likes of Amazon’s Kindle Store and Apple’s iBookstore. Fearing printed …

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Google is Making the World a Stupid Place: It is Taking Our Natural Intelligence and Replacing it With Artificial Intelligence

In my academic career, it is difficult to distinguish what I have learned from school and what I have learned from Google. If ever I am at a dilemma, I simply get on Google and find the answers to whatever …

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Making Friends One “LOL” at a Time

In today’s day and age, the Internet is where you can find anyone. Kids, teenagers, and adults take part in the world wide web and social networking. Facebook is the main source of friendship making and/or reconnection. Basically, now we …

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The Battle of iPhone vs Android

The two top contenders for the most popular cell phones out are the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4. There are plenty of Android phones other than the Galaxy S4, but it is the most popular at the …

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Social Media: Vehicle for Political Awareness and Activism

For most Americans social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are part of their daily lives; being checked once or even multiple times per day. But why do Americans use social media? A 2011 survey by the Pew …

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Movements in a digital age

If there is one hope for peace in the world, it is from social media sites. During the Arab Spring in Tehran, and countless revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East, Twitter has been credited as the go-to tool …

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Virtual Friendships: Helping or Hindering our Youth?

These days everyone is on his or her cell phone or computer texting friends or updating their social media sites. Children are getting cell phones at a younger age and are substituting face-to-face conversation or phone calls with text messages. …

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