Tag: Issue 3 Spring 2016
It has been one year, two months, and five days since the day I thought I lost her. One year and two months since she was able to tell me over the phone in her wispy, cracking voice not to worry. A year since I flew back to Korea to see her out of the
On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogencamp was heckled, harassed, and beaten by a group of five teenagers outside his favorite bar, sustaining brain injuries serious enough to render him comatose for nine days. Mark lost all of his memories. Financial assistance from Medicaid allowed for Mark to seek limited therapy, but after his federal support
“I can tell you that I have never read, heard or encountered a public request like that,” Dr. David Bloom, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, told The New York Times. Dr. Howard Markel, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan, echoed the same sentiment: “I have
Many of us grew up reluctant to eat our vegetables. Early childhood was the age of shrieking in terror and defiance as a forkful of broccoli not-so-craftily disguised as an airplane came gliding at them across the table—refusing their peas, their carrots, their brussels sprouts. But what many don’t realize is that learning to “eat
When Ebola struck West Africa in 2014, thousands of doctors flew in from around the world to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. They donned bulky white suits and big goggles, and worked to set up temporary field hospitals. On the doctors’ heels came millions of dollars in foreign aid. By the end of October 2014,
Main street in winter bare asphalt, cars and blue-tinted smoke from fresh wood burning We pedestrians tense our shoulders despite layers of fabric and air between us Scratched throats retract and avoiding each other’s eyes we blow our noses into tissues we found folded in the pockets of our coats But if
The recent Tufts Dance and Drama Department production of Next to Normal portrays characters facing a wide array of mental health issues. There’s a mother dealing with bipolar disorder and coping with the loss of her infant son nearly 20 years earlier, a husband struggling to put on a happy face as his family falls
Theory Kitchen, the culinary brainchild of 22-year-old Tufts University graduate, Theo Friedman, recently returned to Boston for a weekend of multi-course dinners. Friedman curated the menu himself, sourced all of the necessary ingredients, and spent the week leading up to the event prepping dishes and tinkering with flavor combinations. Typically, Friedman operates Theory Kitchen in
When Arthur was 17 years old, he escaped his father by going for long swims. The water would close over him and he would blow out his air, little bits at a time, until he sank to the bottom and the muck slicked his feet and ankles. When the burning in his chest became too
This past year has frequently directed my attention towards the notion of a safe space. I was reminded that safe spaces are controversial when even somewhat left-leaning publications like The Atlantic argued that they obstruct meaningful academic and political discourse. I was reminded that safe spaces are controversial as they became continually satirized by mainstream