By Eileen Guo School Should Start Early School should start early because many opportunities could be missed if students sleep through the morning. Starting school earlier means that school can end a little earlier as well. Leaving more time after school for …
Read More »Black Rhinos Could Go Extinct?
Fun fact: Rhinos often symbolize agility, wisdom, stability, and freedom. The rhino family has inhabited Africa for more than 60 million years, but their population numbers are ever dropping. Today, all five species of rhinos are getting dangerously close to extinction; there …
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By: Amber Xu This July, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a $3.7 billion dollar project to construct a pipeline that would transport approximately 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields. This project was authorized …
Read More »The Phenomenon of Yellow Birds Turning Red
Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang We have all heard the phrase, “you are what you eat”, too many times. Of course, it has never meant to be taken literally—that is, until now. For the yellow-shafted northern flicker, the phrase rings blatantly true. Named …
Read More »Is Daylight Saving Time (DST) good for your health?
By Jiemin Sun Daylight Saving Time (DST), also known as “Daylight Saving Time,” is a system of local time regulation to help in energy conservation. Many argue that DST is needed to cut down on the entire country’s energy consumption, but other …
Read More »Book Review: ‘Five Days at Memorial’
On August 29, 2005, America’s costliest natural disaster made landfall and wreaked havoc on New Orleans, Louisiana. We’ve probably all seen pictures of Hurricane Katrina and the massive destruction that ensued, ravaging New Orleans. However, there was one tragedy that went largely …
Read More »Energy Crisis in India
Submitted by: May Leng On October 2nd, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ratified the Paris agreement, a pact that aims to keep the Earth’s change in temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius. However, in a rapidly developing country that is heavily dependent …
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