What makes an activist an activist? Is it their devotion to a cause, is it their commitment to speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves, or is it something else entirely? Every year since 1986, on the third Monday of January,
Imagine this: a dog and a cat, sitting in a boiling hot New York apartment, thirsty and in desperate need of a walk. They can’t control their lives, and not to sound like a Disney villain, but their lives are literally in
A $106 billion industry employing 75 million people in factories. Paying only 2% of all employees a living wage. Releasing millions of microplastics into waterways around the earth. This is the reality of the fast fashion industry in 2022. With this industry
When watching videos on YouTube or any average streaming channel, almost every viewer gets multiple 30-second to two-minute ads about the most random places, objects, and sometimes even people or jobs. How much of our brain processes the random makeup brand or
Netflix has hundreds of thousands of shows, but out of all the shows on Netflix, one show has become increasingly popular the last few years, reaching almost 500 million hours watched. This show has become so popular that Warner Brothers created a
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Specialists on this case will disagree with me, even the FBI will disagree––yet I think that a man by the name of Will Smith (no, not that one) looks suspiciously similar to Dan “D.B.” Cooper, the as-of-yet unidentified criminal behind one of
By Sophie Katz, age 16 On the first day of WriCampia – August 12, 2024 – campers were greeted with WriCampia merch bags including an unexpected surprise. Among the contents were the usual suspects: the plain white shirt with the WriCampia logo