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As college students, everyone knows the pivotal role that student-run organisations, whether they are academic, arts-based, performing and/or skill-based, play in exploring one’s interests and honing their skills. Students are actively involved in such organisations as they provide a plethora of opportunities for their growth and development. Nowadays, students face the problem of plenty when it …
The Olympics took the internet by storm last year: from athletes bringing back laurels to their countries to the world being back together as a united force, celebrating our sense of hope and the ability to fight after having gotten through a global pandemic for the last few years. But in this storm, there was …
A police precinct. An uncomfortable chair. An interrogation room. A rather chaotic Andy Samberg, screaming while strumming a guitar. These things make up one of the most iconic bottle episodes of all time. A Bottle Episode is an episode that is produced within a minimal budget. There are few – if any – non-regular cast …
What is the true nature of the universe? Humans came up with stories to define them, and the more we learnt the more complicated our stories became. Amongst a series of stories we came up with, one that was particularly controversial and often misunderstood was called the String Theory. In order to explain the same …
Due to reduced footfalls in stores during the pandemic, GameStop’s revenue and share price understandably fell. Several international investors decided to short GME in the hopes of capitalizing on their decline. What they didn’t account for was a change in leadership, new investment and the beginning of a new console cycle.
An extensive research conducted in the 1980s concluded that every 1% increase in unemployment led to 37,000 deaths. The deaths were attributed to substance abuse, sucide and heart attacks. People who are fired from their jobs see a sharp increase in their stress levels, a known psychological trigger. The study argued that this principally happened …
When he proposed snapping to wipe out half of humanity, Thanos was actually acting on a solution to the central problem of Economics, that is, that people have unlimited desires but only limited resources to fulfill those desires. His argument was straightforward, halving the population would leave greater resources for the leftovers to satiate their …
The Simpson’s paradox, famously known as the Yule-Simpson effect is a compelling demonstration of how Statistics, the bedrock of some of the most vital decisions in any organisation, can be deceptive. Named after the celebrated statistician Edward H. Simpson, this anomaly isn’t just a theoretical curiosity but constantly pops up in the real world in …
Short selling is an attractive strategy to profit from during market downturns, while you cannot deny the risks attached with it. In times of market turmoil, there are still opportunities to generate returns from stocks. In the simplest form, short selling is selling shares that you don’t own. It is a simple process where a …
All of us of have extensively heard of, if not studied, the various bubbles in recent times, like the Housing Crisis of 2008 and the Dot-Com bubble of the early 2000s. However, one of the lesser known bubbles is the Souk Al-Manakh Meltdown. This stock market was Kuwait’s unofficial over-the-counter stock market. It managed to …