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89 Seconds to Midnight

89 Seconds to Midnight

Anya Keskar, Head of Visuals February 8, 2026

“The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must...

Why Should We Care

Why Should We Care

Lara Phul October 7, 2025

In 1964 a woman named Kitty Genovese was raped and brutaly murdered outside of her apartment building. According to police reports, 38 people had either seen or heard what was happening to her, but did...

PCOS - The Period Piece no-one wants to write

PCOS – The Period Piece no-one wants to write

Lara Phul, Reporter April 19, 2025

Women and girls face threats on many fronts - from violence around every corner to legal restrictions to social stigmas that limit their roles in society. But what if I told you that one of the biggest...

Holding Space for Wicked : Did it Defy Gravity?

Holding Space for Wicked : Did it Defy Gravity?

Ira Gandhi, School News Correspondent January 29, 2025

  The movie that we’ve all been “holding space” for, John M. Chu’s take on the Tony award-winning musical “Wicked”, recently broke the box office. The characters weren’t the only...

Full of Sound and Fury, signifying nothing

Full of Sound and Fury, signifying nothing

Lara Phul, International Correspondent January 28, 2025

Society should crumble. Our leaders must be put to the sword. This is the start of every modern online manifesto. Whether it is the CEO assassin heartthrob Luigi Mangione or the Columbine shootings,...

Cookie Clicker and the Absurd

Cookie Clicker and the Absurd

Neel Tripathi, Existential Columnist January 26, 2025

“Polytheism is the belief in multiple deities; monotheism in just one. Atheism is a belief in no deity whatsoever. Through logical succession, it follows that this remains true when going into negative...

Cilian Murphy collects his Oscar for best actor in a leading role

Oppenheimer wins big, but at what cost?

Arjun Mehrotra, Editor September 11, 2024

The Oscars have long masqueraded as the most prestigious event in Hollywood, awards handed to the best, only the best films of the year. But uh... not really. Everybody knows by now that the movies that...

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