Beijing Olympics Began Amid Boycotts
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off February 4th with the opening ceremony held at the city’s National Stadium, making Beijing the first city to hold both winter and summer…
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NYC Crime Spiked in 2021
Many urban areas are known as hubs for criminal activity, as the correlation between city size and violent crime rates is well documented. Indeed, many cities in the United States…
Quantum Startup Launches 256-qubit Computer
With numerous competitors across the technology industry, massive corporations such as Google and IBM have been at the forefront of developing larger and more complex systems of entangled qubits for…
Winter COVID-19 Update
Over the winter, there have been many new developments to the COVID-19 pandemic such as the introduction of a new Pfizer antiviral, new CDC guidelines, and government policies that hope…
History Told Through Linguistics: Graphic Pejoratives in Written Chinese
The logographic nature of the Chinese written language creates unique situations in which the visual aspect of a word and its meaning is not necessarily attached to its spoken pronunciation. …
Doomsday 2022: A Look Ahead at the Most Critical Year in Climate History
On January 22, 2022, a fire broke out over the Big Sur Valley along the central coast of California displacing over 500 local residents and burning around 1,050 acres of…