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If you’re looking to use a retro calendar, 1977, 1983, and 1994 all start on a Saturday and aren’t leap years, just like 2022.

Calculating Doomsday: not as dramatic as it sounds

April 26, 2022
My personal tape collection, mostly inherited from my parents or purchased at thrift stores

Where Have All the Cassettes Gone?

April 14, 2022
Crows and ravens (top) belong to the family Corvidae, alongside rooks, jackdaws (both depicted, bottom), blue jays, and magpies to name a few. Corvids are some of the most intelligent birds, with brains almost as big as ours compared to body size--so next time one steals something from you, know it’s a deliberate move. (Source: LookAndLearn.com)

Raven or crow: who’s to know?

April 8, 2022
With both Ms. Soto’s departure and Mrs. Robinson’s maternity leave in the math department set for May, the school is scrambling to find proper substitute teachers.

Teacher trade-out

April 2, 2022
Note the similarities between the honeycomb and the film—perhaps nature is the mathematician after all.

Bees as good at math as any other animal

March 25, 2022
Senior Issie Curbelo poses with a pride flag in the early stages of the protest.

Saying gay at ELHS

March 4, 2022
Engineering juniors are wanting more structure in the classroom, but it seems they won’t get it until at least after spring break.

Teacher toss-up in the Engineering Academy

February 26, 2022
There’s no Russian to make this savory pasta dish, so you may have to simmer a while, but it’s worth the wait

Strogan-off to the Kitchen

February 18, 2022
Ren Ziwei grapples Shaolin Sandor Liu, the final blow in a skirmish Shaolin seemingly started

You Either Skate or You Lie

February 11, 2022
A modern edition of the game Mastermind, a board-and-peg version of the word game craze.

OLDER : WORDS : GUESS : GAMES

February 4, 2022
The first look at the new designs from the M&M’s YouTube channel—note the change in shoes.

M&M Redesign: Misdirection or Missed Intention?

January 28, 2022
First sight on my new laptop’s home screen—software I didn’t want installed.

Computer booting blues

January 21, 2022
The logo on the performer’s shirts in the 2020 show (which if I may digress, I’m still upset they misspelt my name on the back of).

30 Plays in 60 Minutes in 300 Words*

January 14, 2022
Newgrounds, one of the most popular websites in the early Flash days, has adapted to Flash’s shutdown by creating its own launcher that doesn’t require the software.

Flash Games: Where Are They Now?

January 7, 2022
One of the more potent moments of It’s Such a Beautiful Day is when Bill walks around his block several times in a row, noting the same things (such as how beautiful the day is) without remembering all the previous times he took the same walk.

A Tragic Bill of Health

December 3, 2021
Tumblr’s often framed as a dying platform, and its scarcely 200 million active users compared to the billion on Facebook and Instagram prove it, but that status has made it largely left alone by advertisers and data collectors

The Social Media Time Forgot

November 19, 2021
NFTs, like this CryptoPunk, are popping up everywhere—catching the concern of both environmentalists and the government.

Crypto Trade Cracked

November 12, 2021
A screenshot of the code and the finished product, weighing in at over 7,000 lines of code.

Lessons of a game dev

November 5, 2021
Despite how it may seem sometimes, it is human nature to want to help others.

Kindness displayed

October 29, 2021
Striking workers at the Kellogg’s plant in Battle Creek, Michigan. Photo by Alyssa Keown for Associated Press

Striketober surges across country

October 22, 2021
Des Rocs’ latest album cover, featuring his real good face ;)

A Real Good Album with some Real Bad Apples

October 15, 2021
The monster group as depicted by 3Blue1Brown

MegaFavNumbers & the Monster

October 1, 2021
The two leaders of surveillance, the director Christof of The Truman Show (top) and the figurehead Big Brother of 1984 (bottom).

Somebody’s Watching You

September 26, 2021
The first strikes in Portland included picketing just outside the processing facility. (Photo from Wikimedia.org)

The snack and the strike back

September 17, 2021
A small sampling of the types of flowers around campus—can you find any more?

What September showers bring

September 10, 2021
Landlords depending on rent payments began to suffer under the eviction suspension, so some of them took it to the courts.

Return of the landlord

September 3, 2021
The villainess herself, the downstairs Building 9 sink

The fault in our sinks

August 27, 2021
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