Every spring, flowers bloom all across Ithaca, filling the air with a faint floral aroma. But then you walk into class and the room is…
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STEM Feature of the Month: Why Do People Dream?
Dreams are such a mysterious thing. You could have the most terrifying nightmare and wake up in the middle of the night with a cold…
Is it the End of a Golden Era in Men’s Tennis?
Every January, the top tennis players from around the world meet in Melbourne, Australia to kick off the year. This year’s Australian Open marked a…
Pros and Cons of Taking a Foreign Language
Foreign language classes are often hailed as being one of the most beneficial classes you’ll ever take in high school. However, across the nation and…
STEM Feature of the Month: A Little Chemistry in Cookie Baking
Cookies are arguably one of the best parts of the holiday season. Soft and gooey, or crisp and crunchy, there’s a cookie out there for…
Hall Monitor
“What is your most irrational fear?”
STEM Feature of the Month: Apples, Apples, Apples
Fall is the perfect time to bake something bursting with apples and cinnamon and drink a mug full of warm spiced apple cider. You might…
STEM Feature of the Month: Brainless Jellyfish
Jellyfish. I think of them as these cute blob-like creatures that passively float across the ocean’s surface. I never would’ve thought that they could think…
STEM Feature of the Month: New Technology to Combat Climate Change
Wildfires are spreading at rapid rates around the world. Many states, including New York, experienced poor air quality in June, when smoke from the raging…
STEM Feature of the Month: CRISPR
As the lines between science fiction and reality continue to blur, one revolutionary development is blazing the way: CRISPR. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced…
Hall Monitor
“If I gave you a dollar right now, what would you do with it?”
The Ethical Dilemma of Medically Assisted Death
Medical assistance in dying (MAID), or euthanasia, has sparked debate in recent years. This is the action of ending a terminally ill patient’s life with…
Monkey King
I am the King of Monkeys,Sun Wukong is my name.Don’t call me ordinary,I’m far from it.I was born from rock,but I’m a ball of energy.…
Why Does Math Proficiency Keep Declining?
A national assessment of math proficiency shows the lowest results in a decade, but in Ithaca, it’s even worse. In late October the National Assessment…
Non-Western Artist Feature: Lauren Ko’s Culinary Art
If anyone was ever on the food side of Instagram or YouTube in 2019, I’m sure you saw the extremely beautiful and detailed pies created…
What Are Our Recent Tattler Board Graduates Up To?
During the first months of a new school year, I was interested to see how our most recent graduates were doing. I reached out to…
The 2022 U.S. Open: One for the Record Books
This year’s US Open Tennis Championships is one that willforever be written in history. We saw the end of an era,with legend Serena Williams stepping…