Gabriel Arias ’27 Contributor Since 2014, the Euphrates River has been drying up. Located in the Middle East's fertile crescent, the Euphrates has been a key freshwater source for thousands of years and for dozens of different civilizations. Due to the drought affecting the river and surrounding area, many have been forced to leave the... Continue Reading →

Davis Cordeiro ’27 Contributor Photo Credit: Artificial intelligence chatbots have taken the world by storm in recent years, most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has proven helpful whether you need to come up with recipes, brainstorm for an essay, or write a movie script about something silly for you and your friends to laugh at.  Before... Continue Reading →

Aristotle Anguluan ‘26 Contributor Photo Credit: Mu Yu/Xinhua via Getty Images Go to Nanchang, one of the most populated cities in China, and you will see a park that looks like a forest. It is an urban park. Filled with birds, native trees, and volcanic rocks on 137 acres of land. This park, and others... Continue Reading →

Michael Wolanik ’25 Contributor Photo Credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong Most people consider “hard drugs”, including psychedelics, useless beyond illegal recreational abuse. However, new research into the psychedelic psilocybin has scientists reconsidering whether “magic mushrooms” could treat depression, anxiety, addictions, Alzheimer’s, and other mental disorders. Psilocybin creates new links between neurons in the brain, forming new neural pathways,... Continue Reading →

Castiel Haripersad ’25 Copy Editor Photo by AP Photo/ Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File The Nobel Prize highlights the revolutionary advancements which humanity has made in multiple fields. This year, vaccine science and minuscule lasers won the prestigious prize for medicine and physics. Before COVID-19, vaccines seemed less important when they only came up during flu... Continue Reading →

William Hudson '25 Science & Tech Editor Photo by Michaael Conroy The increasing prevalence of “right to repair” legislation will cause a shift in companies’ pricing in response to their broken repair monopolies, but is that necessarily a good thing? On Oct. 10, 2023, California became the most recent state to recognize the “right to repair”,... Continue Reading →

Castiel Haripersad ’25 Copy Editor Photo Credit: NASA The moon, for millennia, has captivated our hearts and minds. We have studied it, praised it, and, as humans do with everything else, tried to find our meaning within it. The Apollo mission, one of humanity's greatest achievements, allowed us to land on the moon, and NASA’s... Continue Reading →

By Baljot Rai '24 Deputy & Religion Editor It’s Christmas, the official season of overindulging, feasting, unwrapping presents and bedecking every corner of our homes with festive decorations. Yet have you ever considered the impact that your Christmas celebrations have on our planet? All the gifts we buy and give certainly aren’t gifts to our... Continue Reading →

By Rodmehr Filizadeh '25 Contributor Canada’s second largest airline, WestJet, is currently in the process of modernizing its fleet. Unfortunately, they may have overlooked some consequences of their changing fleet composition. Recently, WestJet has begun to retire their older Boeing 737-700 planes to avoid renewing leases and because they are economically inefficient. Throughout 2020 and... Continue Reading →