Monthly Archives: April 2013

CI Blog: Education in the United States and International Rankings

When the rankings came out, alarms rang, sirens abruptly went off, and a mixture of disappointment and fear for the future diffused throughout the United States. A country of so much power, innovation, and progress, was deemed average at best … Continue reading

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Is it a boy or a girl?!?! Uhh…we don’t know…

Have you heard of a thing called intersex? It’s exactly what it sounds like: spanning between two different sexes. This means the chromosomes, gonads, and genitals aren’t distinct; it’s not dominantly male or female, but in fact an undifferentiated version. … Continue reading

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CI Blog: Education Reform by the Government

It’s not difficult to see that America’s education system may need a little more work. There are those who complain about the graduation rates, our international rankings against other countries, and how there doesn’t seem to be much progress lately. … Continue reading

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Printing Parts

I recently watched a TED talk by Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. According to him, we have a pretty big issue on our hands: the demand of organs and the lack of supply. … Continue reading

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