Loneliness: The Quiet Public Health Crisis When we talk about “public health,” we usually picture sterile hospital hallways, vaccination clinics, or the spread of a new virus. We rarely think about the person sitting alone in a crowded cafeteria or the silence of a house at the end of aContinue Reading

The Resume of Failures We spend so much time polishing our LinkedIn profiles and making sure our resumes look like a perfect streak of wins. We list the Dean’s List, the high-status internships, and the leadership titles, but we never talk about the fifty applications that got ghosted or theContinue Reading

Sleep Deprivation: The Invisible Student Crisis In the world of high school and college, sleep is often treated like a luxury or a “bonus” feature of the day. We’ve all seen it: the student who stays up until 3:00 AM studying for a chem midterm is praised for their “grind”Continue Reading

Selenium’s Gift to Hometown Health​ QIZHE WEN My hometown Enshi in Hubei holds the globe’s only verified independent selenium deposit—local rocks have up to 66.66mg/kg of this mineral, 11 times higher than comparable formations. A nationwide survey shows 53% of Chinese students have myopia, but Enshi’s juvenile rate is farContinue Reading