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The number of international students in the United States had an all-time high during the 2018-2019 academic year. According to the 2019 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, it is the fourth consecutive year with more than one million international students. They make 5.5% of the total higher education population in the U.S. According to dataContinue reading “Intenational Students and Education in the U.S.”

Most of our lives are spent indoors, The average person spends as much as 80–90% of his/her time indoors and space, lighting, colors, acoustics, aesthetics indeed play a big role on the psychology of the individual. This begs the question as to what actually shapes our personality. How much more of the design would beContinue reading “How Archeitecture affects the mind”

Allision Arieff’s article “Automated Vehicles Can’t Save Cities”(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/27/opinion/automated-vehicles-cant-save-cities.html) on The New York Times is the best thing that I’ve read this week. The article is about the author’s opinion on automated vehicles and that they are not the solution to urban problems such as traffic congestion and emission but rather make them worse. What strikesContinue reading “Automated Vehicles Can’t Save Cities”

John Seabrook’s “The Next Word” (https://bit.ly/2xrKh7j) is the best thing I’ve read this week. Its an article on predictive text and it tries to find if an A.I writer that is trained on the archives of the magazine, can learn to write for The New Yorker. But what makes this article special is that atContinue reading “The Next World”

Aaron Besecker, Criminal justice and breaking news reporter at the Buffalo News held a conference at our class this week. He was invited by his coworker and adjunct professor Keith McShea. Besecker originally graduated with a degree in sociology from UB in 2002, but then went on to do his Masters in magazine, newspaper andContinue reading “Aaron Besecker”

The Black Student Union had its 52nd annual Black Explosion Fashion and Cultural event at the Buffalo Marriot Niagara Hotel. It was held on March 7th with appearances from DJs PVO sounds, Flute Performer Flute Fingers, rapper Sleepy Hallow and his crew including Cheff G and social media influencer Cleotrapa who also hosted the event.Continue reading “BSU’s Black Explosion 2020”

The Guardian’s article on Co2 emissions caused by commercial airplanes (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year) resonated with me. It’s really interesting to note that a normal flight can emit the same amount of co2 emissions as a person makes in a whole year Because most of us would not have a second thought about the Co2 emissions that wouldContinue reading “How your flight emits as much CO2 as many people do in a year”

The Univesity at Buffalo Department of Arts organized a Western NY regional High School Exhibition called “Into the Open”. Its an exhibit of art created by the students in Western NY schools located in Buffalo. The exhibit can be viewed at the Room B45 Center of the Arts Building at the University at Buffalo. TheContinue reading ““Into the Open” a Western NY High School Exhibition”

      It’s not common to see a cool web presentation about something trivial like a scrollbar that we see on computers. But that is exactly found today. The evolution of the Scroll bar (https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/) is a presentation of all the different iterations of the scroll bar since the first one in the Xerox StarContinue reading “The evolution of the Scroll bar”

  I would consider my self a person that has not been really into politics, I rarely give attention to articles that relate to politics or just mostly gloss over it. But, I do have a very vested interest in movies. I would say that I’m a fantastic movie connoisseur, I could break a movie downContinue reading “The 34 best political movies ever made”