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Zooming In

It’s been six months since the coronavirus outbreak happened. We’ve been trying to cope with the virus for so long and now, it’s time to go back to school. Not just students, but the whole staff will need to adapt to the new “zoom format” for a while since we […]

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MSG: Mythbusted

In 1968, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter from a supposed Chinese physician named Kwok who described a series of reactions he experienced after eating Chinese food. “Dr. Kwok” (who is believed to have been a white, American scientist lying about his identity in order to sound […]

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FreeTheFlow Wants to End Period Poverty

FreetheFlow, a teen-led organization founded by Emily Chinn, a junior at San Mateo High, focuses on contributing to the end of period poverty, the inability to afford feminine hygiene products. The company’s goal is to gather those products and create donation packets to give to local women’s shelters, such as […]

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The New iPhone is Here

The annual mid-September announcement of Apple’s new technology seems to have ingrained itself into becoming a modern American tradition. And this year, that trend didn’t seem to change. All the buzz, tweets and posts on the internet focused predominantly on the release of the new iPhone, as American consumers looked […]

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The Benefits of Podcasts

Over the past ten years, podcasts have taken over the internet by storm, as there is a podcast for every situation and mood. When exactly did podcasts become so well-known, and why do so many people enjoy listening to them?  In August of 2004, the first modern podcast, “The Daily […]