Valentine’s Day Spending Stats
Regardless of how much you spend on Valentine’s Day, the money spent isn’t the main item to dwell on. The sentiment exchanged between people is what matters.
The Refugee Crisis: How it’s Affecting the Entire World
By: Leena Sen
Since 2011, the raging war in Syria has led 10.6 million people to flee their homes. Today, one in five displaced people in...
Team Trees
By now, everyone is very well aware of global warming and other environmental issues. Greenhouse gases are warming the atmosphere at alarming rates, causing...
TRISO: A Prospect for Clean Nuclear Energy
On November 2nd, company X-Energy announced that their preliminary design for a production facility of nuclear TRISO fuel had been completed. If this project is to finish, it is another step towards improvement in nuclear power sources and cleaner energy for all.
Facebook vs. Tsu-Co
By: Ann Wang
Recently, Facebook has made the controversial decision to block a possible competitor from appearing on their website.
Tsu.co is an invite-only platform...
Wall Street Fined $1.8 Billion
Wall Street is a long-standing symbol in American history. Through the years, it has come to be a symbol for global finance as well as the financial center of America. Unfortunately, several large financial corporations were fined for not monitoring how their staff use their personal devices at work. These work violations accumulated to nearly 1.8 billion dollars in fines.
#Bellletstalk Sweeps Globe
By: Carly Recoon
On January 27th Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and text messages lit up with the hashtag of #BellLetsTalk. The purpose of this message was...
Arecibo Telescope Collapses After 57 Years
After playing a key role in astronomical research for the past 57 years, the Arecibo Telescope (once the largest radio telescope in the world) collapsed the morning of December 1st. About 90,000 people visited the observatory every year.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Good or Bad?
By: Ananya Murthy
Historic. Landmark. Groundbreaking. Revolutionary. These are among many of the words that have been used lately to describe the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Elon Musk Crashed his Mclaren F1 to Impress Co-Founder of PayPal
Elon Musk, known as Chief Executive Officer and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and co-founder of PayPal, spent one million dollars on a rare McLaren F1 but then proceeded to crash it, trying to impress Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal)—the story, which was shared through PandoDaily with Sarah Lacy, dates to the late 1990s. After Elon’s startup “Zip2” was sold to the computer manufacturer Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars, Musk decided it was time to spend some of his finances.