Gerrymandering is the act of favoring one political group over another through the manipulation of redistricting maps. Each state is broken into districts for the House of Representatives, which is proportioned based on state populations (unlike the Senate, for which each state gets two Senators). By ensuring one political party’s voting bloc is more effectively concentrated in specific districts, the …
You probably didn’t hear about it, but for a few months, astronomers were worried that a deadly asteroid would strike the Earth. This asteroid, 2021 QM1, was predicted to collide with us in 2052, an impact that would have been comparable to the explosion of a nuclear bomb. Thankfully, after getting a better view of the asteroid, astronomers were able to …
The future looks bleak for us. While we’ve already started to experience some effects of climate collapse, Generation Z is looking down the barrel of a gun that humanity pointed at itself. Despite efforts to fight environmental collapse and even some progress being made, disaster is coming for us. The exact scale of that disaster isn’t known, but it’s not a matter …
In a groundbreaking new experiment, scientists have managed to grow human brain cells in a lab, and after just a few minutes teach them to play the simple video game Pong. The research paper, intriguingly titled “In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated gameworld” details scientists recent advancements in cultivating and understanding human brains. After …
We’ve previously discussed how Generation Z is struggling in our modern, anxious era, facing an epidemic of suicide. However, it’s not just the youth who are suffering. From 2000 to 2018, American suicide rates rose 30%. In 2020, 12.2 million adults seriously considered suicide, with 1.2 million attempting it, leading to nearly 46,000 American deaths. This makes suicide the 12th …
The End Times are upon us. This is the consensus of people across the political spectrum. The human race, either through spiritual depravity or indifference to the natural world, is marching off a cliff. Though the Left and the Right don’t agree on the mechanism of our demise, they agree we’re careening toward annihilation. Is it any wonder that our collective …
