Exploring Monocultures
A monoculture, by definition, is a homogenous environment with little to no diversity, in which “every organism follows the same path of development.” According to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Revenge of the Tipping Point, a monoculture can refer to a group of cheetahs in the Oregon safari in the 1970s, or a small American…
Book Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Noise was a very strange novel. It was a wild ruckus of a ride, but I do wish to focus on one theme: fear of doom. This fear pervades the majority of the novel. It’s the creeping panic that rises at the thought of an ending, bleak with no hope. It’s the question surfacing…
Book Review: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
(Note: contains spoilers) It’s a hypothetical scenario we’ve all indulged in at least once: what if there was a medical procedure to make you smarter? A scientific breakthrough in neurosurgery makes it possible, and it’s been performed on a white mouse, Algernon, who can find its way through a maze faster than a person can….