The Quarantunes – How Digital Music Platforms are Creating Community through the Pandemic
My blockmates and I found out that we had to vacate Harvard on a Tuesday morning. Our anxiety around Coronavirus had been building in recent weeks, and we knew changes were coming, but we were not prepared by the shock
Ameelio – The Free Prison Communication Platform
Writer’s Note: Currently, I am working as a software engineering intern at Ameelio remotely, through spring and summer 2020. Specifically, right now, I am working on writing web crawlers to build a seamless, searchable nationwide inmate database. All uncited quotes come
Contact Tracing and the Future of Technology Governance
On April 10, Apple and Google announced their partnership to build a Bluetooth-based contact tracing platform. Set to launch in May, the API would allow public health authorities to develop apps that would use the Bluetooth functionality on Android and
An Online Learning Experiment – How Education Technology is Evolving to meet the Demands of Online Learning
Publisher's Note: This is the second article of a two part series. While Part 1 explores the disparities in education that arise in a remote environment, Part 2 takes a look at how innovation in education technology may be helping
An Online Learning Experiment – Exploring the Educational Disparities that Arise in the Online Classroom
Publisher's Note: This is the first article of a two-part series. While this article explores the inequalities that exist in the transition to remote learning, Part II explores new innovations in educational tech that might address some of these inequalities.
Blaze
For years, there had been a bug in Lupita’s hair. She had bought the cheap implant as a medical student, and it hadn’t interacted well with her biomonitor or immune-system booster. As well as changing colour on demand, like they
Beyond the Hype – Bringing AI to Radiology
For radiologists, detecting abnormalities in medical images can be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. It can take hours for radiologists to go through a single scan, and there are a limited number of medical professionals trained
Misinformation on WhatsApp – A Coronavirus Catalyst
“Breaking News: Scientists discover inhaling steam is a cure for coronavirus.” A few weeks ago, this message appeared on my phone’s screen. It was a forwarded message on WhatsApp from a relative in India. A quick Google search revealed that
Data in UK’s National Health Service
In March, at the dawn of the COVID-19’s assault on the US, the Department for Health and Human Services finalized two rules designed to give patients access to their electronic health records (EHR) and improve interoperability [1]. Getting the electronic
Cellular Personhood in the Age of Biotech
After a year and a half of pipetting, running gels, and peering through microscopes, I finally submitted my undergraduate thesis last month. In it, I was looking at the role that particular proteins played in driving inflammatory bowel disease, a