L Train Shutdown Gets Shut Down
Nick Tarr, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2019
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To many Bronx Science students, the L train lives only in imagination, too far from their homes and school to be useful in everyday life. However, to almost 400,000 daily riders, the L train is a reality that almost suffered one of the longest, most expensive, and most impactful renovation projects i...
Nobody Expected the Spanish ‘Reconquista’
Daniela Castro, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2019
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Spain’s immunity to far-right politics gave out after last year’s regional elections in Andalucía and is no longer a ghost that goes by unnoticed. Since Blas Piñar left the House of Representatives in 1982, no other far-right politicians have been able to step into the country’s Parliament. Thi...
Bronx Science Starchitect Class of ‘65 Turns Night Into Day
Abigail Yoo, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2019
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Christmas festivities have become an integral part of New York City tradition with one of the most anticipated events of the year being the Rockefeller Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. The new Swarovski Star star, arguably the most important aspect of the tree, was designed by world-renowned architect and...
Fanning Out the Flames
Toni Ouyang, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2019
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The sky is grey for weeks on end in sunny California. A thick blanket of smoke covers Los Angeles. Flourishing vegetation, forest habitats, and thousands of homes all burned to ashes in 2018. Raging fires chased people out of their homes and sometimes even out of their cars as dense traffic moved slo...
Conflict in the Kerch Strait
Brian Katanov, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2019
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On November 25th, 2018, three Ukrainian warships were attacked in the Kerch Strait, the passage between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The ships were rammed, fired upon, and seized by Russian ships. This latest provocation is a culmination of decades of animosity between Ukraine and Russia, as the...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A Woman of Change
Angie Yang, Staff Reporter
December 24, 2018
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Countless cars zoom by a group of tightly bunched stores at a wide intersection in the East Bronx. While this may seem like any ordinary bustling street, what passersby do not know is that the recently most-talked about person in the political world, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has her headquarters nestled in...
Washington Post Journalist Murdered in Saudi Embassy
Jehiel Butt, Staff Reporter
December 24, 2018
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On October 2nd, 2018, a Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was murdered by Saudi Arabian agents, who flew into Istanbul and left the same day. Khashoggi was visiting the Saudi consulate in order to resolve marital issues, but almost a month later, there are still more questions than answers about...
The Silent Genocide
Benjamin Oestericher, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2018
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On August 25th, 2017, Tula Toli, an enclosed village in the northern Rakhine state in Myanmar, awoke to gun shots. The village, predominantly inhabited by the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority in a majority-Buddhist country, was used to living in fear, with military raids occuring frequently whenever ethnic...
WeChat: Is the Chinese Government Watching?
Sydney Teh, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2018
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With over 900 million daily users and a networth of $100 billion, WeChat, the mobile messaging app, has taken over China as a social media platform for communication between families, friends, businesses, and now, the government. Connie Chan, a partner at investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, spoke...
Brazil in Chaos
Marina Mengual, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2018
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With Brazil’s presidential elections in October 2018, there was extreme commotion in the polls. This direct democracy suffered from uncertainty, opposition, and riots. For Brazilian men and women, displaying their political views is extremely dangerous. This is the extent to which these elections have...
The True Blue Wave Dethrones the IDC
Sowad Ocean Karim, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2018
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Jessica Ramos, a thirty-three year-old community organizer and activist, unseated incumbent Democratic State Senator Jose Peralta in New York’s Democratic State Primary on Thursday, September 13, 2018. Her campaign against Peralta, a powerful eight-term officeholder who represented Jackson Heights,...
Women Set A New Record in the November Elections
Suhaima Islam, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2018
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2018 is a monumental year. It is the year when women broke the record for the number of female winners in the House and Senate Primaries. Winning a total of 256 nominated positions, the female candidates headed on to the General Election on November 6, 2018, where they worked hard to beat their competitors....
Earth’s Big Brother?
Sanford James, Staff reporter
December 12, 2018
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), was launched earlier this year and was designed by MIT to find exoplanets, also known as planets outside of our solar system. It is powered by four cameras that allow it to photograph the potential planets light years away from Earth. TESS is the successor...
DeBlasio Strikes Again
Maliha Akter, Staff reporter
December 12, 2018
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Rikers Island is home to a notorious jail filled with severe violence where more than 1,000 stabbings occur annually. On average, Rikers Island holds around 10,000 permanent residents, and 77,000 inmates who cycle through annually. Many inmates have not yet been convicted of a crime: they are pretrial...
The Fate of New York City’s SHSAT Lies in the Hands of Mayor Bill de Blasio
Pamela Li, Staff Reporter
December 11, 2018
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On June 2nd, 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a controversial proposal to either modify or eliminate New York City’s Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). The dynamic discussions over this proposition have not stopped since. Though de Blasio has proposed these changes in the hopes of t...
Resources Available to Avoid Stress at Bronx Science
Milene Klein, Staff Reporter
December 10, 2018
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The Bronx High School of Science, minutes before first period. Students swarm the staircases, rushing to get to their classes and talking to their friends before the school day commences. Countless others line the hallways on every floor, hunched over their notebooks as they race against the clock to finis...
A Whole New World: A Revamped Guidance Suite, Gym, and Roof
Nuzat Zaman, Staff Reporter
December 10, 2018
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By senior year, it is assumed that everyone can navigate the school with their eyes closed. After all, they have been in this school for four years. However, when a freshman asked an upperclassman which room their guidance counselor was in, the upperclassman was unable to answer. The upperclassman...
Hurricane Florence: A Violent Storm and its Aftermath
Elton Moy, Staff Reporter
December 10, 2018
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As Hurricane Florence traveled from Bermuda to the coastal United States, it went from a tropical storm to a massive Category 4 hurricane featuring wind speeds up to 140 miles per hour. With the storm on its way, inhabitants scrambled to prepare for the worst. As the storm approached the Carolinas, resid...
Bangladesh Students Oppressed After Protesting For Safer Roads
Afifa Areya, Staff Reporter
December 3, 2018
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On July 29, 2018, multiple university students in Bangladesh were waiting at their bus stop. It was during the wait, that a bus ran over these innocent students. For these students, what would have been a regular day turned into a tragic nightmare after many lives were lost by the recklessness of the...
Haunted House, Monster Mash for Halloween 2018
Joachim Romanosky, Staff Reporter
November 21, 2018
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This year, Bronx Science continued its tradition of celebrating Halloween with the annual Monster Mash. Throughout lunch periods on October 31st, 2018, the cafeteria was filled with costumed students playing games, listening to music, and dancing. Dancing to music in the school cafeteria on Halloween is a great...
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Staff Reporter
Cameron Leo is a Staff Reporter for ‘The Science Survey’ and an Editor of the People Section for ‘The Observatory’. Having always loved to write, Cameron enjoys journalistic writing in particular...