Aadi Shiv Malhotra (‘21) Living in Michigan requires dealing with cold weather for the most of the year. Michigan has many days with sub-freezing temperatures and an average of about 45 inches of snow in an year. However, there are many places on the Earth where temperatures get colder than Michigan such as the Arctic and the Antarctic. In the last week of January, the … Continue reading Climate Reality: The Cold and the Climate

–Soenke Pietsch (‘21) As the world cheered towards and into 2019, there was not much smiling to be seen in the White House. Starting just before Christmas in 2018, a government shutdown, the result of failing to pass a funding bill providing the government with money, had kicked off that would become the longest in the history of the United States. The main reason: President … Continue reading Reliving The Game: The very, very petty fight over the State of the Union

–Soenke Pietsch (‘21) There is no question about it that many Americans enjoy vacationing in the holiday state of America- Florida; Presidents, our Commanders in Chief, included. However, the circumstances under which many of our highest elected officials take time off their imperative, influential jobs are (in some cases) as similar as their presidential styles. Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight … Continue reading Reliving The Game: A Presidential Florida Break

Aadi Shiv Malhotra (‘21) Over the last few years, one man and his companies frequently dominate the technology landscape. This person is none other than Elon Musk. Elon Musk started with a company known as PayPal and then used the income he earned from PayPal to fund his other companies such as: Tesla, SpaceX, Hyperloop, The Boring Company, and Neuralink. Musk believes that global warming … Continue reading Electric Cars and their Impact

–Soenke Pietsch (‘21) In a span of 48 years, change is inevitable. Opinions, beliefs, differences, choices and preferences fluctuate with the tides of human intuition, as the environment around unequivocally never remains the same. In the 48 year stretch between 1970 and 2018, the United States has seen major turmoil, spanning the spectrum of change from as far as nutritional habits to environmental consciousness to … Continue reading Reliving The Game: The Midterm Elections of 1970 and 2018

Aadi Shiv Malhotra (‘21) If there is one thing people can do, it is change. Change is necessary to keep up with the world, change is also necessary for the world to keep up with us. We have been steadily polluting the world since the Industrial Revolution, but have not ever to think, why are we polluting the world? In 2018, with rapid forms of … Continue reading Climate Reality: Time to Change

–Soenke Pietsch (‘21) In the United States, the supreme court is the highest body of the judicial branch of government, one of three in our nation. This office is made up of one chief justice and eight associate justices, all of whom are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. These men and women serve on the Court as … Continue reading Reliving The Game: Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas

-Aadi Shiv Malhotra (’21) Wildfires in California have each year grown more dangerous and bigger. Firefighters have become more worried each passing year, as a higher number, of large and dangerous fires are starting to occur earlier in the year; something that is blamed on climate change. California naturally has a dry summer, and with rising global temperatures, it shows that the wildfires are going … Continue reading Climate Reality: California’s Fire Season

Abigail Kendal (’22) We’re all equally guilty. Our crime is universal among International Academy students and unlike other typical high school crimes, it doesn’t involve drugs or alcohol. This heist takes place at our cramped desk centered around our far-from-terse biology textbooks and dying lamp light. And now, we are all being indicted for our overly stressful mindsets. Jinshil Hyun, a doctoral student studying human … Continue reading Don’t Stress for that Test: New Study Finds that Higher Stress Equates to Lower Cognitive Function