Works
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The Science of Depreciation
By: Joshua Diaz. Finish that coffee in your hand and five hours later roughly half of its caffeine is gone from your bloodstream. Buy a delivery van and…
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Deep Dives: The EV Safety Paradox
By: Arav Anvikar. In Connecticut, a person is allowed to drive at the age of 16, which makes kids more and more eager, as the day of their…
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Connections: Algorithmic Pricing and the Risk of Tacit Collusion in AI-Driven Markets
By: Sahana Thamizan. Suppose you go to rent an apartment and notice that several buildings nearby have almostidentical prices. You suspect that the landlords must have coordinated to…
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Connections: The Internet’s Quantum Problem – Why Your Passwords Have an Expiration Date
By: Sanvi Immadi. Think about the last few minutes of your day. You unlocked your phone, read an article, sent a message you’d rather keep private, maybe even…
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Deep Dives: The Negative Properties of Phones and Why We Keep Giving in Regardless
By: Elizabeth Perry. According to Google, there are currently more than 210 million books in the world (Google Books Search, 2010). These books are full of viable knowledge at everyone’s fingertips, ready to be read. In the same vein, anyone can learn…
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Connections: The Advent of Neuropolitics
By: Andrew Ni. Imagine entering a voting booth just to be told that your ballot had been predicted years earlier—not from your own personal arguments and ideas, but…
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Opinions: Is Nasa Worth the Money?
By: Wendy Zhong. NASA’s budget once reached 4% of federal spending, back at the peak of Apollo. Now it sits under half a percent. Even at that small…
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Gaps: The Math Gap in the American Education System
By: Shriya Jha. When my friend first took the SAT, her immediate reaction was “I’m no good at math.” She was taking advanced math courses and had managed…
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Opinions: Fortune Favors the Brave: How Risk Aversion Limits Innovation
By: Kareena Pisharodi. People around the world questioned whether surgeon Christiaan Barnard had crossed the line between medical genius and clinically insane when he transplanted a dying man’s…
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Connections: The True Role of Mathematics
By: Isabelle Kim. Economics plays a big role in the global order – it is the study of how societies allocate scarce resources and make decisions. Math serves…