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A few months ago, Russia celebrated the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. The events that preceded and happened during the two revolutions of 1917 are described in The Empire Must Die, a new book by Mikhail Zygar.
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Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2018.01.31 21:16
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It feels like everytime El Salvador is in the news, it's never for something good. Despite its “majestic rivers, superb volcanoes, peaceful lakes, and its skies of purple and gold”, like with everything else, the limelight of global media will only shine down when something negative can be said about the country. At least this time, the attention is welcome. It could end up helping the lives of thousands.
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Tae Soo Kim Head of News
2018.01.31 21:07
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Korean cable TV network JTBC recently hosted a debate on the use and utility of the technology behind bitcoins, whose vicissitudinous qualities are taking the country by storm. The debate featured Si-min Rhyu, a reclaimed writer and a politician who served as the 44th Minister of Health and Welfare, and Jae Seung Jeong, Professor of Bio and Brain Engineering here at KAIST.
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.01.25 22:25
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Exactly 2π. That is what we call tau, or τ. So why does this matter, you ask. It is pretty obvious that C/0.5D = 2π, after all. To find out more about the circle constant, we need to start by looking at its origins.
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2018.01.18 23:09
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January 7 was the D-day for the filmmakers. On that day, James Franco won the Golden Globes award for Best Actor in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role of Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist.
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Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2018.01.12 23:37
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Money doesn’t appear out of thin air? That is so 2017. With the Big Bang of the cryptocurrency market, digital dollars have completely defied the previous norms of investment and money making. It’s the Wild West, with digital gold up for grabs and outlaws roaming the field for the biggest margins in tens of cryptocurrencies that have since followed the success of bitcoins.
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Juhoon Lee Assistant Editor
2018.01.12 23:26
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A couple of days before Christmas, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced the successful launch of its long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with its leader Jong-un Kim issuing a statement that both threatened and reassured the world.
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2018.01.04 17:46
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When I was a child, like children are, I always knew exactly the things I wanted. Local forays into the territories outside the warm walls of home to the nearby mall had me always in paths circular in nature.
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Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 23:31
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If I were to sum up my life philosophy in one word, that word would probably be “balance”. For as long as I can remember, my recipe for happiness was maintaining the delicate balance between the various aspects of my life I cared about: academics, relationships, physical and mental health. This pursuit of a work-life balance has been a lifelong challenge, especially due to my tendency to always want to fulfill my potential.
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Chonghyuk Song Senior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 23:27
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A man screams at the camera as he shakes his body and twitches his eyes violently, thanking everyone for the “Star Balloons” he just received. In the sane world, the man’s actions would be completely incomprehensible and people would view this man with concern. However, in the world of AfreecaTV, he is just BJ Chulgoo, a prize-winning, seven-year veteran live streamer that brings entertaining content to viewers in all forms.
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Hyunwoo Shin Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 23:21
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Our good friends in the New World recently decided to abandon some of humanity’s most valued assets by setting the concept of logic on fire. As the red, white, and blue flames burn the coal that drives “The Donald”, the rest of the world watches, horrified, as 2017 set new records for extreme weather conditions.
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.12.27 22:48
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Although polygamous marriages are generally frowned upon by modern Western societies and mainly have negative connotations, it is possible to identify positive externalities for both parties involved in this arrangement.
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 20:33
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The American sci-fi film Gattaca from 1997 presents us with a future society where children are conceived through genetic manipulation in order to endow them with the best hereditary conditions. Now, two decades later, designer babies have become an intense topic of discussion that challenges some of our most intrinsic and fundamental values.
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Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.12.27 20:30
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We sometimes recline away from our rational selves to make room for ambiguity — we know that committing to a stance can be a self-deprecating act and must assume neutrality to shy away from being judged. In other words, we attribute happenings to subjects that hinge on a far less solid basis as we can see from the articles or speeches that say the “evil has taken over” or one was “cut short of luck”.
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2017.10.24 00:24
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What if you passed by someone or something lying in deadly pain, wrenched in the cold waters of the Styx? The good-willed member of society is obliged to assist, to guide, and to save. We should not, and must not, become the victims of cowardice and lethargy. This is when courage is needed and when the lone ordinary becomes the mystically heroic.
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Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.10.24 00:16
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The Turk (1700s), Da Vinci (2000), and AlphaGo (2015) are only some of the many “robots” that have brought about revolutionary changes to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Although the proficiency of such robots has already been proven, the public has had mixed opinions on the topic of these robots replacing many areas of mankind’s lifestyle.
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Hyunwoo Shin Staff Reporter
2017.10.24 00:09
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I never thought graduate and undergraduate buildings within the same campus could feel so different despite being only a few hundred meters apart.
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff
2017.09.25 20:19
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Although a distinctive line can be drawn between the concept of “truthfulness” and “usefulness”, the increasing demand for a comprehensive set of information in today’s pursuit of knowledge means that we should be critical of the selectivity and the integrity of the knowledge presented to us.
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Jae Hwan Jeong Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 20:12
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One typical rainy autumn day in Vienna, Mrs. Wagner, my ninth grade history teacher, asked several minutes before class started, “Did you hear about what happened to Kim Jong-il? What do you think is going to happen now to North Korea?”
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Sangwook Ha Staff Reporter
2017.09.25 19:38
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I became a big fan of dystopian novels ever since I read George Orwell’s 1984 in high school and fell in love with the darker themes in fiction writing, which was a new concept to me at the time. Luckily, there was no shortage of writers who had gloomy futures for humanity, and soon after 1984, I had finished Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Lois Lo
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Yehhyun Jo Head of Society
2017.09.25 16:57