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Dungeons and Dragons and Demons and Disappearances

October 31, 2018February 14, 2021 Delaney Heil

Dungeons and Dragons is the Harry Potter of the board game world: it is constantly targeted for witchcraft and devil worship. Created in 1974, D&D is a game that has been celebrated for its creativity, social prowess, and storytelling. It’s a staple in nerd culture and is even seeing a

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Wanna get tortured this Halloween?

October 30, 2018February 14, 2021 Athena Malcolm

Nestled within San Diego’s suburbia is a real-life horror house where people are pushed to their emotional and physical breaking point through hours of torture. The catch? There’s a 27,000 person waiting list to go through this “once in a lifetime experience.” Don’t you want to be tied, beaten, forced

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Can You Keep a Secret?

October 30, 2018February 14, 2021 Da Yeoun Moon

Perfect crimes are kept as secrets. PostSecret is a art project/social experiment that invites people from all over the globe to share their secrets anonymously by mailing in a postcard. These postcards are often decorated with hand-drawn art or collage from magazine cutouts that matches the theme of the secret.

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Grandma’s SPECIAL Brownies ;)

October 29, 2018February 14, 2021 Gabi Kaftan

Life is life a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get…especially if some of those chocolates contain THC. For thousands of years, people have been infusing their food with cannabis for a variety of reasons whether it being for healing, religious purposes, or even to

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Inspirations of A Serial Killer I: Mental Thoughts

October 28, 2018February 14, 2021 Elizabeth Montague-Jones

It may be shocking to discover, but many serial killers have additional hobbies of artistic varieties, besides that of committing heinous crimes. Just as artists have been considered to have tortured souls and under perpetual pressures placed on them by their spirits of ingenuity, the same holds true for serial

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The Out-of-Season Burn

October 27, 2018February 14, 2021 Emily

There is a narrative behind the clothes you are wearing right now. This narrative begins from the moment raw material is collected and used to make the fabric, to the last moment the garment exists as torn and scattered bits wherever it ends up. It is basically guaranteed that you

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Is there a limit to the challenging stigma and inspiring social change?

October 26, 2018February 14, 2021 Ranger

In a society where we are taught that we are individuals and unique in a world so interconnected by technology, social media, the news and just life, there are all of these subgroups that are arising each and every day. And more and more we are asked to cater to

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Article 13: Say Goodbye to your Re-Tweet

October 25, 2018February 14, 2021 Josh Brennan

In our age of impressive internet freedom, copyright directive lawmakers have proposed and now passed Article 13 in the EU which this past September, will stifle our ability to share impactful news articles to our peers and iconic images from your favorite movies and shows. Article 13 generally proposes to

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Coincidence or Predictive Programming?

October 24, 2018February 14, 2021 Anna Grzybowski

While there are many conspiracies surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, can you positively say that you were shocked by the terrible events? Many believe that the attacks were an “inside job” and planned by the Bush Administration, while others believe the buildings were wired with explosives. 17

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Normalizing Sexual Abuse

October 23, 2018February 14, 2021 Andrea Schreck

“I think I love you, and you just see me as a toy. Because I can’t touch you, because I’m too frightened to show you any affection in case you flinch or tell me off or worse – beat me.” This is a direct quote from the incredibly famous yet

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