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On October 5, around 1,400 workers at four different Kellogg’s plants went on strike. The strike has been ongoing ever since, and despite the strike still continuing to this day, there still has been no agreement between the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM), which represents the striking employees and Kellogg’s. The strike is ongoing at four different locations: Battle Creek, Michigan, Omaha, Nebraska, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Memphis, Tennessee. 

On Thursday, December 9, the European Commission proposed new rules that would require companies like Uber and Lyft to pay drivers and couriers a minimum wage, a practice that so-called “gig workers.” It is estimated that this would affect up to 4.1 million workers.

Above is a photograph of the Lassen and Plumas National Forests nine years after the 2000 Storrie Fire. Surprising to most, the area is thriving with resprouting black oaks and live conifers. 

This has long been a question that people have wanted to understand. Can your next move be predicted? According to a study released in 2014, there is a way to do so using brain maps. Brain maps are brain scans that will track the firing of neural circuits around the brain, thus creating a path that was a response to a stimulus. The path of the neural circuits or areas of the brain are used to form the brain map. By tracing the path of the neural circuits based on the stimulus, researchers could predict which brain path would be run based on previous stimulated brain paths. 

President Biden met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in a high-stakes video call centered on the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Already, Russia has established supply lines, including fuel and medical units, and is reportedly amassing up to 175,00 troops at the border, with the US and its allies worried that a Russian offensive in Ukraine could begin in a matter of months. 

Our good friends in Europe have had a pretty interesting past couple of weeks. From the resurgence of the United Kingdom's Labour Party and Germany's new chancellor, to the French presidential election heating up, Europe has some new stuff to look at. And here, I’m going to be covering it all. Let's begin!

Over the past month, the new variant of the coronavirus called Omicron has begun making its way across the globe, having now been found on every continent. It has, so far, shown itself to be less deadly, presenting symptoms that generally tend to be mild, but it is far more contagious than the Delta variant. Many cases have been in younger individuals who are fully vaccinated. Here is a quick rundown as of December 12th.

On Monday, November 29, Jack Dorsey announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Twitter. He was replaced by Parag Agrawal, the Chief Technology Officer. Dorsey is still the chief executive of the payments company Square.

With gas prices skyrocketing and housing costs through the roof, the various stimulus programs throughout the pandemic, record spending by the government, and disrupted supply chains raising costs of goods, it is unsurprising that the annual U.S. inflation rate jumped to 6.2% in October - the highest rate since 1990. Should Americans be worried? Is there anything that can be done to halt the inflation? 

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all been isolated from the rest of humanity for quite a while. Hunger is also something that we have all experienced as well. Scientists have discovered that these two states of hunger and isolation are linked.