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The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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Culture, Stories, and Books, Oh My!: A Look into Diasporic Asian Speculative Fiction
In recent years, there has been a rise in Asian books being released by English-language publishers. Asian perspectives and stories are finding their place on bookshelves everywhere and in readers’ hearts and minds. From romantic comedies to historical fantasy, Asian voices are being represented. Asian readers can finally see themselves reflected in the media around […]
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Infinite Unknowns: Marvel’s What If..? and the Influence of Fanfiction
Warning: The following article contains spoilers for the What If…? series and potential spoilers for the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Please proceed with caution. In early October, the Marvel Cinematic Universe finished their first full foray into animation with the season finale of Marvel’s What If…? The Disney+ anthology series was received in […]
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A Gothic Lover’s Guide to Horror Novels
It’s October. The leaves are changing, pumpkin-spiced foods surround you everywhere you go, and you’re looking for a story that makes you terrified to walk down that dark foreboding hallway at night. During this time of endless streaming options, it’s definitely a valid choice to check out the latest slasher flick, psychological thriller, or bad […]
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Roma Sutra: Masturbation Is Good For You
Masturbation carries a huge stigma, but is that stigma justified?
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The Environmental Case for Space
When it comes to facing climate change, exploring and developing space might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Time is Money
Targeted ads, data mining, and the ever-present browser cookie — welcome to the attention economy.
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Born to Be In It: The Rise and Fall of Beto O’Rourke
After the most successful losing Senate campaign in history, Beto seemed poised to become a rising star in presidential politics. What happened?
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Video Gaymes
In the constant struggle to bring positive queer representation to modern media, video game characters suffer from stereotyping, hypersexualization, and total erasure of queerness.
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Gilded Silicon
By Evan Meade Back in July, four Congressmen sent an open letter to Facebook asking them to halt development on their new “cryptocurrency” called Libra. The Representatives, all members of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, cited serious concerns relating to “privacy, trading, national security, and monetary policy.” They believed that such a currency […]
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Pressing Reset: The Rise, Fall, and Renaissance of Computer Reset
One of the deepest regrets I have as a student of technology and media in a school with a begrudgingly illustrious computer science program is that I’m not as knowledgeable as I would like to be about how computers work. Like any well-meaning but stressed and high-strung college student, my way of remedying this is […]
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A Back Alley CAFE
On November 2, 2018, at the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center, Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Dean of the Naveen Jindal School of Management, gave remarks to the gathered student and faculty attendees of the CAFÉ Fall Seminar: “Freedom and Prosperity in the U.S. and the World: How Are We Doing?” Dr. Pirkul spoke of the need to “protect […]
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Quantum Disruption
There’s a war raging in Silicon Valley right now, and it’s attracting everyone from Google to IBM to Microsoft, along with a flock of ambitious new startups. Despite what you might expect, they’re not fighting over social media, mobile games, or e-commerce; they’re after something downright otherworldly: parallel universes. Despite sounding like the premise of […]