On J20, the day of the presidential inauguration, 227 PCS students--41 percent of the PCS student body--participated in the J20 school walkouts and political protests which occurred across the country in concert with the swearing in of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United State.   The walkout began around 10:30 a.m. in coordination with students from UCSC, Harbor High School, ...

Since Donald Trump has been elected, a frenzy of insults on social media networks has ensued. Hillary Clinton supporters have been criticizing some Trump extremists, who have in turn been calling them profane names and posting controversial things on social media.  Trump supporters have been citing “free speech” in their defense and stating that “political correctness” has gone too far.  Trump is in a boiling pot himself. His insults from the election season are turning against him as many House Republicans are holding grudges, and foreign leaders are not sure what to do next.  Furthermore, the U.S. foreign...

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Note that numbers like this (1) reference the calculations at the end of the article In 2010, humanity collectively released around 36.7 tonnes (metric tons, equal to 1000 kilograms, or around 1.1 tons, or 2,200 pounds) of CO2. Most of you probably read over that, thinking it another random fact in an endless slog of global warming statistics, but it’s important to take a second and make note: that is a lot of carbon dioxide. When I was in 7th grade, I once had an idea: we could take all of the CO2 in the air, compact it into solid form, and store it underground so it wouldn’t clog up our atmosphere. Of course,...