Change is never easy for anyone: even if it may be for the better. This is exactly how I felt when I joined CIS this year.
Not a Teaching Aid: How Medical Education Exploits Women’s Bodies
Pelvic exams are one of the best ways to detect early signs of infections, cancer, and other serious health concerns in women. Learning how to conduct these exams is a key part of a medical student’s education, given that it helps them diagnose these diseases. That said, where do we draw the line between education and exploitation?
Art in the Age of Algorithms
When photography was invented in the late 1820s, many artists feared the end of art. When digital photography arrived, photographers were worried about proving their pictures’ authenticity. Sounds familiar? Today people have been using AI to generate masterpieces in seconds – that once would have taken weeks or even years. History seems to repeat itself. Are we witnessing the death of artists, or the birth of a new form of expression?
Why Belly fails as the protagonist of the summer I turned pretty
With the themes of first love, heartbreak, friendship, and grief, The Summer I Turned Pretty has all the ingredients for a moving teen drama. Yet, instead of being swept up in belly’s journey, many viewers were left frustrated by her choices and questioning how the supposed heart of the story became its weakest link.
The Secret to Managing Expectations
Managing expectations has become unprecedentedly difficult for us in the era of flourishing media, with all the plethora of colorful visual stimulations originating from all corners of the world, ultimately ending on our tiny screens. These online platforms create gaps that are difficult to overcome through individual efforts too early; behind the lens of content creators, there is the overarching accumulation of great efforts that many underestimate.
The Artistic History of Emotion: Processing The New Year Through a Creative Lens
New Year’s are universally recognised as fresh starts, an empty calendar, or rather canvas waiting to be painted with uncharted ambitions, emerging responsibilities and ultimately, novel difficulties. It’s a strange yet greatly assimilated notion. One could have endured a harrowing year of persistent struggles, but as the clock strikes midnight on the 31st, for many, it’s as if all is renewed, and they’ve been granted a new chapter in their life’s stories.