Sender's Junior Year

More than 5.7 million people each year end up in intensive care units (ICUs) at hospitals due to a wide array of life-threatening issues. Some of these patients are in the ICUs to find comfort as they reach the near end of their lives. But some of them, like Paul, are too depressed to see the end of their lives and believe that they'd benefit more by ending their lives quicker using euthanasia.  Euthanasia is defined by Merriam Webster as " the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy". Euthanasia is synonymously called mercy killing or assisted suicide. Paul asked his physician E. Wesley Ely  "but can't you help me die, Doc?" after detrimentally facing lung fibrosis and pneumonia. He had no family nor friends that could comfort him through this difficult time, but he found joy in listening to Lord of the Rings...

Elon Musk — commonly known as the chairman of the billion-dollar company Tesla — was forced to step-down from his position and pay a $20 million dollar settlement. The reason? The twitter tweet he uploaded on August 7th was illegal because "it's illegal for a director of a public company 'to knowingly or recklessly make material misstatements about that company,'" according to a Harvard Law School professor (Quinn).  Click here  to read more about the illegality of his tweet. Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast earlier this September for a casual interview. About two hours and ten minutes into the podcast, Elon Musk can be seen smoking marijuana inside tobacco, after Rogan tauntingly asked him if he couldn't do that "because of stockholders". This was legal at the time because their interview took place in California, a state that legalized the recreational use of weed earlier this year. Consequently, this stirred a lo...

Sant Boi, a town in Spain known for its huge mental health hospital is seeking to eliminate mental health taboos using graffiti. For many years after the hospital was founded in 1855, the small community has been subject to discrimination for being known as the town with the "crazy" people. Artists are trying to break the silence surrounding taboos of mental health by "re-graffiti-ing" the wall that separates the hospital from the other parts of town. Before, the wall had been covered with messy scribbles and words. Now, they cleared the walls and painted carpets with interesting designs as a way to invite people to the other side. Out of all the things these artists could've drawn, why choose carpets? What's significant about a carpet draping over a wall? How do these carpets metaphorically try to invite townspeople in and patients out to the town? Click here for the full article