It is impossible to watch the ongoing events in Ukraine and not look on with dismay. From people suffering immensely to cities being reduced to rubble to an autocracy attempting to dismantle a democratic...

Time is a mere point, the senses are dull and illusory, the soul is a dream, fortune is evasive and uncertain, and life is a war. Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor who bore a gift for statesmanship and...

Our Earth’s climate is slowly spiraling into disarray, and a star may explode in a few billion years. The notion that Earth, as we know it, may not last, is a crippling concept to most humans. It reminds...

Less than fifteen years remain before the adverse effects of climate change reach an irreversible threshold. Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the 73rd president of the United Nations (UN) general...

People have long strived for perfection in many areas of their lives, with little room for accepting the imperfections that occur with being human. So it came as a surprise when produce with their own...

The long-debated topic of affirmative action is subject to a major overhaul in the Supreme Court with a conservative supermajority ready to vote against the use of race-based admissions. With Kentaji Brown-Jackson...

On a hazy October afternoon, two young girls race down the long stretch of sidewalk next to P.S. 81, playing a game of “don’t step on the smelly fruit.” They hop between sparse spots of clean sidewalk...

Vladimir Putin enjoys an 83% approval rating as of late March 2022. For reference, Harry Truman’s approval rating at the conclusion of the Second World War was 87%, only 4% higher. The President of Russia...

Ever since Disney’s first animated piece with sound, Steamboat Willie, the company  has established itself as a major innovative animation studio. Pixar followed suit with its first feature film,...

It’s not a normal school day. Bronx Science student Sophia Mah ’22 shows up to school in a mask, with her pencils sharpened. She heads to her designated classroom to take the test. The test is the...

Humans have been gambling for five thousand years, starting out with “stick and knucklebone” games of chance and currently with video poker. Empires, countries, and religions have all tried to prohibit...

Cultural appropriation is commonly confused by some people with cultural appreciation. The proverb “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” is still used by many people to justify cultural appropriation....

Electroencephalography (EEG) may be the future, allowing people to tap into their own minds with low-risk, non-invasive, and low-cost EEG technology. It would allow us to better understand brainwaves,...

On October 28th, 2021, Facebook, an infamous social media giant seemingly headed for catastrophe, assumed a new identity: Meta. With the name change, the company sought to completely change the track it...

Is cash still king?  It used to be that small businesses preferred cash to credit cards in order to avoid hefty processing fees that cut into their profits, but in recent years, some New York City...

Society is progressing at an amazing rate. Just in the past century, Wilbur and Orville Wright's first airplane turned into Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert’s Electrical...

As anti-Asian hate crimes continue to skyrocket in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, many seem to believe that these senseless and unprovoked acts result solely from scapegoating for the COVID-19 virus...

 Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel’s Climate Clock launched in 2015 reflected the growing concern about the climate crisis. The clock is displayed in many major cities such as Berlin, New York, Glasgow,...

When I was in middle school, there was a period when my brother and I were in our respective scout troups at the same time. One Friday, he had a Cub Scouts meeting in which he learned how to use a knife...

“One, two, three, Bechdel!” Sitting in my eighth period journalism class, I overheard this. Two of my classmates, Yasmine Salha '24 and Sela Emery '23, were trying to have a five minute conversation...