We have always been told to take care of our skin because it is the only pair we will ever get…until now. After three years of discussing the idea, scientists have finally come out with this futuristic spray gun to repair damaged skin. The treatment was developed by plastic surgeon, Dr Fiona Wood from Western [...]

President Hosni Mubarak declared Tuesday night that he would step down in September as modern Egypt’s longest-serving leader. Hours later, President Obama strongly suggested that Mr. Mubarak’s concession was not enough, declaring that an “orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.” Speaking to CNN on Tuesday night, Mohamed ElBaradei, [...]

Yesterday President Obama spoke again on the situation in Egypt, and this bit near the end of his speech really caught my attention: Over the last few days, the passion and the dignity that has been demonstrated by the people of Egypt has been an inspiration to people around the world, including here in the United [...]

Two student groups, Jewish Perspectives on Globalization (JPOG) and American Movement for Israel (AMI), hosted a coffee talk last night regarding organ trafficking and donation as a political and religious point of concern for Israel. Organ trafficking presents a global problem, creating a platform for turning poor, under developedand overpopulated cities into major sites for [...]

I’ve written before about the commodification of knowledge in higher education, but I think that Michael Burawoy explains the problem quite well.  Take this, for example: Before [the 1980 Bayh-Dole patent legislation], patenting was seen as an infringement of the market. Knowledge was a public good that should be available to all and, no one [...]

Over the past few weeks, civil uprisings have been occurring across the Arab world.  Beginning in Tunisia, where a horrific act of self-immolation sparked a wave of civil unrest nicknamed the “Jasmine Revolution,” protests have spread to Egypt. Impassioned by the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian protesters took to the streets in anger over unemployment, [...]