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Press Space Bar to Chat: Video Games as a Third Space
Cover of Final Fantasy XV: Comrades The act of gathering in a shared space is the foundation of a community’s thriving health, but with...
Autumn Brooks
May 12


Reduce, Reuse, Resell? The Ethics of Gen Z’s Thrifting Obsession
Thrifting is more popular than ever among college students Although this sentiment has recently been called into question , Gen Z is...
Chase Francis
May 12


The Art of Suffering: Artaud, Van Gogh, and the War on the Mind
Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885, oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam To write an apologia, to lay blame on Theo, and to...
Jolie Boiadjieva
May 12


Death of the Author & Richard Siken’s Twitter Account
Cropped Image of Saint Jerome Writing by Caravaggio With the final sentence of Roland Barthes’ 1967 essay , “the birth of the reader must...
Paige Racine
May 12


Human to Human: The Modern Writing Center’s Value in the Age of AI
A photo of Tawes Hall, where UMD’s own Writing Center is located Would you rather a human or a computer give you one-on-one writing...
Matthew Gu
May 12


From A Recipe to The Odyssey: Why Documenting Oral Traditions and Storytelling Embodies the Power of Literature
Ancient recipes from cuneiform tablets (Yale Babylonian Collection) Hungry? Well, let me pull out the recipe book. It’s only 4 millennia...
Eitan Amster
May 12


Aquaponics: How the “Friendship” Between Fish and Plants are Fueling a Greener Future
Humanity's first ever aquaponics system - chinampas, bringing both food and community Humans are a complex species each individually...
Caleb Margolis
May 12


Guess Who’s Back?: The Return of Preventable Diseases
Sign Pointing to a Measles Testing Site in Texas Photo by Julio Cortez It starts like any other illness: a dry cough, runny nose, maybe a...
Galen Richardson
May 12


Ashes of the Future: L.A.’s Struggle with Climate Change Infernos
Satellite imaging of the Eaton fire in L.A. - That is not light pollution…it’s fire “Man is a part of nature, and his war against...
Caleb Margolis
May 12


Women's Healthcare in Authoritarian Governments
A future like Gilead, a dystopian society in which women are oppressed to possess no sense of personhood as described in Margaret...
Akshya Mahadevan
May 12


"SkinnyTok" and the Evolution of Disordered Eating in the Digital Age
TikTok is everywhere—between classes, during study breaks, while commuting, eating, or falling asleep. It's where people go to learn...
Sophie Messenger
May 12


The Myth of the Trifecta
DXR, Wikimedia Commons Conversations from both sides of the aisle in the aftermath of the election often focused on an increasingly...
Gavin Neubauer
May 12


How Anti-Catholicism Drove the Development of Early Maryland
A painting depicting the Maryland colonists’ first voyage aboard the Ark and the Dove ( msa.maryland.gov ). Anti-Catholicism in American...
Hayden Day
May 12


Fiction is the New Fact: The Radical Politicization of Science
President Donald Trump being handed a mask (The New Yorker/Getty Images.) Scientific research has historically held the precedent of...
Anika Sharma
May 12


To Drill or Not to Drill?: The Economic Effects of Energy Policy during the Start of the Second Trump Administration
(Oil Wells, Richard Florsheim, Art Institute Chicago ) The Trump administration has pursued a slew of economic policies in its first 100...
Pyotr Sergeevykh
May 12


The High Price of Endless War
Protesters organize against US militarism and military spending Despite constant debates in Congress about balancing the federal budget,...
Lola Akintoye
May 12


Subscribed for Life: The Student Discount That Costs You Thousands
Stressed College Student (Daily Orange) In recent years, the consumer economy has undergone a major transformation: it has shifted from...
Pranav Sasikumar
May 12


Small Businesses vs. Trade War: Canadians Coming Together as a Community
Canadians coming together to protest (Justin Tang) Within the past few months, Canadian patriotism has risen tremendously as citizens...
Laura Neer
May 12


Black Mirror, and the Thin Veil of Retribution
(Black Mirror episodes “White Bear” and “Black Museum”, credits: Elliot Chan , Radio Times ) (I’d like to preface this with a warning...
Archana Sathiyamoorthy
Mar 21


Gladiator II and the Myth of the Big Bad
(Joseph Quinn’s Emperor Geta, credit: Screen Rant ) Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II is the highly anticipated sequel to his critically...
Archana Sathiyamoorthy
Mar 21
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