by CSS Blog Team | Nov 30, 2020 | Review
By Keri Carvalho Ask any researcher who studies racial health disparities, and they will tell you that even before COVID-19, we were already in a public health crisis. Black Americans were already disproportionately affected by chronic health conditions,...
by CSS Blog Team | Nov 16, 2020 | Review
By Valerie van Mulukom Introduction Unexpected and often unpleasant events are the name of the game this year, 2020. From a cluster of pneumonia cases to a full-blown coronavirus pandemic, killer hornets, and a bitterly fought USA general election, to name a few....
by CSS Blog Team | Nov 2, 2020 | Academia
By Melissa Troyer Sketch by Natalia Vélez 2020 is a year of the (perhaps shouldn’t-have-been-so-) unexpected. The Big Topics are on the table. A global pandemic; civil unrest; a call to action against white supremacy and the structural racism built into the...
by CSS Blog Team | Oct 19, 2020 | Academia
By Lilia Rissman Sketch by Natalia Vélez You were always there in the background – two lockers down, two rows back in band practice. But walking the hallways of school these past months, I find myself looking at you in a new way. I’ll never know how it happened...
by CSS Blog Team | Oct 5, 2020 | Review
By Andrew Lampinen Banner image sketch by Natalia Vélez. The flexibility of human cognition is remarkable. We can perform a new task (for example, playing a new videogame) decently after a few minutes of experience. We can then adapt our knowledge to new...