More than two-thirds of Americans play video games, also known as gaming. While gaming can be a fun distraction or hobby, there are health risks that come from too much gaming. What are these harms? Repetitive stress injuries, or overuse injuries, are …
Read More »US Hits Debt Ceiling, Prompting Extraordinary Measures From Treasury
By Kevin Zhang The U.S. hit the debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion set by Congress on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to keep the government paying its bills and escalating pressure on the Capitol to avoid a …
Read More »Sports in the Movies: The Hustler
This month I will stretch the boundaries of sports to include billiards, particularly that subtype of billiards known as pocket billiards or pool. Pool is played with cue sticks and ceramic balls on a felt-covered, rectangular table with borders and six pockets …
Read More »Floods in California
By Suri Zheng This year has already begun with a bad start. The amount of rain that Monterey, California, has been getting is sufficient to replace the droughts over the past years, but the rainfall has been too much; creating natural disasters, …
Read More »The Importance of Energy Management for a Happier and Healthier Lifestyle
Energy management is the practice of balancing the amount of energy we use throughout the day with the amount of energy we gain from rest and nutrition. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by our daily activities and responsibilities, …
Read More »FAA System Outage Grounds Thousands Of Flights Across U.S.
By Kevin Zhang Thousands of flights across the U.S. were delayed Wednesday after a Federal Aviation Administration pilot alert system failed overnight, causing a nationwide halt on flights. The FAA lifted the ground stop on departing flights around 9 a.m. ET as …
Read More »Has Esports really become a real “Sport”
Many have never considered Esports to be real sports, but something that no one can deny is its massive spike in popularity over the years. The first signs of Esports occurred at Stanford in 1972. IT was a competition among invited players …
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