The Journal of Young Investigators: An Undergraduate, Peer-Reviewed Science Journal
Volume 19, Issue 21. March 2010
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The Springtime Blues: Understanding Seasonal Allergies
When T.S. Eliot wrote the opening to The Waste Land, his primary intention was to capture the disillusionment of the post-World War I generation. For seasonal-allergy sufferers, however, a line such as “April is the cruellest month…” must take on a dual meaning. Indeed, sometimes the most annoying symptoms are also the most harrowing, so for those 40 million Americans who bear runny noses and watery eyes through the spring and into the summer, there might as well be a war going on in the cellula ...More »
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Powering Nations
In his monumental book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” published in 2004, Jared Diamond highlights spectacular cases of environmental mismanagement leading to the collapse of societies and entire civilizations. Easter Island which was once the site of a thriving society that sculpted huge stone statues facing inland (called Moai) is one famous example. It is now a sparsely resettled island with one of the worst cases of deforestation in the world. Diamond weaves together evid ...More »