Akshay Kumar
amalayi1@binghamton.edu
8 Articles
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NFTs may not be worth the hype or money
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are the new girl in town that everyone can’t stop talking about. Retail investors and aspiring capitalists’ mouths water at the mere thought of NFTs and will attempt...
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Digital nomads should remain ethical and self-aware
In a world of never-ending change, why would the way we work have to stay the same? COVID-19 has forced us to work from the confines of our own homes through the...
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Demonizing LSD prevents valuable research on health benefits
Modern day “hippies’’ claim we are amid a revival of the 1960s counterculture, an era known for its drug-fueled, antiestablishment cultural wave that flooded through the ’60s into the ’70s. There are...
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Overpolicing gang-afflicted neighborhoods is unproductive
Politicians always try to address gang violence and the rising crime rates of cities, most of the time with more aggressive policing. This seems to be a huge hit with the public...
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Artificial intelligence is unlikely to seriously harm society
Many sci-fi movies have painted artificial intelligence (AI) to be an omen of humanity’s demise. The first cinematic appearance of AI was in a 1927 silent German film, “Metropolis.” Throughout the entire...
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Retail investors striking back at Wall Street is more than a fluke
The stock market is deemed an important and sacred aspect of our economy by both our news media and governmental figures. Most of us have been confused by the jargon that surrounds...
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Interference in foreign governments has deadly consequences
In October, while America was preparing for the most important election in our modern history, Bolivia was trying to vote out its tyrannical, United States-backed, interim president, Jeanine Añez. Añez, “who believes...
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More must be done to mitigate COVID-19’s financial impact
We wade further and further into an almost dystopian society filled with civil unrest and longing for change against a bigoted police state. All this, while being governed by an icon to...