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                  “Okay…what do people actually do at the mall,” Daniel asked himself as he was driving while checking his combed blond hair in the mirror. He had finally worked up the courage to ask one of his coworkers to a date, and the first idea that came to his mind in the moment was going to the mall. “We’ll look through small stores, eat fast food, and… This is gonna be so lame, what a shit idea.”                 “Heyyy Sena!” Daniel eagerly greeted his date, unsure of whether it was too soon to go in for a hug or not while slowly walking up. “Hey,” she replied with a slight smile. Her beautiful black hair framed her round Japanese face perfectly, and her makeup made her lips look delectably plump and full. “How’s it been?” Daniel asked. “How was the drive?” As Sena took a second to reply, Daniel thought to himself, those ...

                  I had always wanted life to play out like a book or a movie. Go to school and college as a kid, develop a career as an adult with the help of a supporting family, and maybe find love along the way. No one told me that you had to be lucky to roll into this kind of life, or that reality was just a never-ending torrent of bullshit for most of us.                 I’m turning 29 this year and still haven’t had a consistent job since no one told me that my undergrad liberal arts degree would be as useful as a sheet of printer paper. I’ve gotten some decent gigs here and there, but most of my days were delegated to working 10-12 hours a day at a criminally underpaying reception job at my parent’s salon. This wasn’t even my choice; I was strong-armed into it when they became fed up with my inability to find ‘real’ work…      ...

 

                  The physics of living state matter, gene therapy treatment, the chemiosmotic theory, DNA’s own double helix structure – the list of biotechnological feats and discoveries that helped shaped today’s world was endless. Nearly none of them would have been possible without the work of Charles Bloom, the twentieth century’s premier biologist, engineer, and everything in between. Born in the mid 1900’s, Charles quickly rose to fame after pushing his education far beyond what anyone thought possible at the time, discovering breakthrough after breakthrough.                 The combination of overwhelming intellect mixed with little free time and the needs of a young adult was difficult to balance. Charles had always thought he’d been exceptional at time management and social skills in the moment, but in reality, everyone was kept at arm’s length, including ...