Science

The year 2014 was a good one for Austen Heinz. Cambrian Genomics, his modest start-up of 11 employees, raised $10 million in investment money. For a small company, Cambrian has nailed down contracts with some big-time partners, including pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (2013 revenue = $38 billion) and Roche (2014 revenue

The most common word in my text message repertoire isn’t actually a word, but an acronym: lol. Laugh out loud. I’ve sent thousands of lol’s, lolol’s, lolz and lulz. In my after-school instant message days, I thought I was alternative and used “lawl.” Not proud. The lol lingers, as it

Ah, autumn in Claremont. That distinguished time of year when the weather fluctuates from “how can 60 degrees be so cold” to “this sweater really gets the pit sweat going” in the span of a single, 50-minute lecture. The trees seem to vaguely realize winter might saunter on through, and

In case you missed the state’s headlines over Fall Break, the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution Oct. 21 prohibiting the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) seeds in Los Angeles.  While that may seem like welcome news against the backdrop of the media’s obsession with the Ebola-ISIS-Putin Axis of

I like to think that I’m pretty good at sensing the world around me. My body is covered with specialized sense organs (e.g. eyes and fingers), products of millions of years of natural selection. Sometimes I think about the ancient humans and primates who died grisly deaths at the claws

As is the case with all contagious epidemics, the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) began with a single person—Patient Zero. According to a Sept. 19 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the patient was a two-year-old boy living in the Guinean border town of Guéckédou.

With the 2014 Alumni Weekend rolling in and the thoroughfares of Claremont suddenly full of even more elderly and middle-age individuals, one question that has been on my mind between the increasing intensity of both my classes and my social life is: What the hell am I going to look like

It was a calm Monday evening. The sun was riding low over Pomona College’s Frary Dining Hall as people sat outside enjoying their dinner in the warm twilight. Then, without warning, a long, rolling groan filled the air. It lasted about a second or two and was followed by a

A star high school athlete, Kevin Breel was, to the onlooker, bright and successful. But beneath his outgoing exterior he harbored a dark secret: suicidal depression. After a TED talk video in which he shared his story garnered millions of views, Breel has spent his time touring the United States and

Time is winding down. Each second’s tick off the clock portends an impending doom for your team. You’re down one point, and the ball is in your hands. Everything seems to slow as you feel the pulsing of your heart beat harder, harder, harder in your chest.  Next thing you