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For the past two weeks, it seems like the only thing everyone wanted to talk about was the Artemis II mission. The idea of sending mankind to the moon once again, even if it is just orbiting before heading back to Earth, has captured the attention of the public in a way not a lot of other headlines have. Space travel has the unique ability to unite people, even in times of hardship or political instability.
As Jo March says in the 2019 film “Little Women” — “Women, they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. I am so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it!”
The long march of technological progress has radically changed the way we work. What used to take hours in a library, looking through encyclopedias and newspaper archives, can now easily be replaced with a quick internet search.
A new trend has emerged on my TikTok for you page: anti-scrolling. As opposite as it sounds, people online have been pushing back against their habits of spending all day on their phones consuming content. Whether people are feeling the effects of doomscrolling on their mental or physical health or are simply being tired of wasting their time, people seem to be rebelling against spending their time online.
Team USA won gold in men’s ice hockey against Team Canada on Sunday, marking the first time the USA has won the top prize since the “miracle on ice” occurred against Russia 46 years ago during the 1980 Lake Placid, New York games.
I am so tired of homophobia.
Snowboarding can easily be defended as having the Winter Olympics’ most iconic events.
Pat Benatar declared “Love Is a Battlefield” in her popular 1983 song of the same name. Today, love is a reclamation site, and Generation Z is its refugees.
There is no better physical example of our dystopian slide than the monolithic data centers that power artificial intelligence cropping all over Pennsylvania and the country.