There are just certain things you grow up believing. For many girls, it’s that hair will grow back thicker when we shave. This was probably used by our mothers to stall the moment we took that step towards womanhood. Defiant, we did it anyway and hoped for the best. Though we only sort of believed… [Continue Reading]
“Hair grows back thicker after you shave” and other body myths debunked
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Are Hispanics the next great STEM innovators?
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- via Forbes Unemployment in the U.S. is at its highest since the mid-80s, college graduates are struggling to find jobs in their respective fields, and the so-called ‘American Dream’ is slipping farther out of reach. Yet, there are 3.2 million available jobs in this country in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields.… [Continue Reading]
What everyone ought to know about Latin America’s Liberator
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I’ve been traveling Colombia for the last three weeks now, going through Bogotá, Cartagena, Santa Marta and Medellin. In every town, there’s a center or a road named after Simon Bolivar. He was ‘The Liberator.’ He led the region to victory against the Spanish. This man created Latin America. The only way you achieve that… [Continue Reading]
The end is near-ish
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As most of us celebrated the new year, I’m sure some looked at the changing of calendars to 2012 as an ominous event. I’m talking, of course, about the preposterous belief that the world will come to its cataclysmic end this year per some Mayan prophecy, a fiction that inextricably lives on in the popular… [Continue Reading]
Monday blues? Turn your grumpiness into creative energy
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First installment in our new series: 2012: Tú, only better Monday has rolled around once again and like many, you are wondering where the weekend went, in need of just one more hour of sleep, and a bit moody as you catch up on your emails. You drink your coffee trying to wake up and… [Continue Reading]