Samuel Casey Editor in Chief Like the rest of the sports world, golf was held captive by COVID-19 for all of the spring and much of the summer. One minute the pros are playing in the Players Championship and smacking balls on the famed …
Citizen science empowers the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Jonathan Logan S&E Editor In 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly approved the Agenda for Sustainable Development. Included within the Agenda are “17 Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs); among them are No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Climate Action and Life Below Water. The 193 member …
Artificial intelligence in international competitions
Jonathan Logan S&E Editor Go, the board game, is perhaps the most famous and complex board game ever created. Nearly 2,500 years ago, Go was invented in China. It involves placing a stone (the pawn) at empty intersections created by a grid, and is …
The “climate clock” takes the wrong approach
Cambry Baker Contributing Writer From September 19-27, a temporary “Climate Clock” in Manhattan’s Union Square counted down the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds left until we are unable to avert climate disaster. You probably saw it — it’s hard to miss the large, …
Letter from the Editors: Election Season
Maggie Dougherty View Points Editor Makeda Teklemichael View Points Editor Chloe Burdette Editor in Chief Samuel Casey Editor in Chief Megan Tuennerman Managing Editor Dear Scots, As the 2020 presidential election draws closer, we recognize that political polarization is higher than usual. In an …
Don’t give up on making friends in a pandemic
Makeda Teklemichael Viewpoints Editor I always hear actors speak about how in romance movies you have to read their eyes, because they say eyes speak better than words. Of course, that just seemed like something too cliché to me at the time, but wouldn’t …