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Should Fidget Spinners be banned?

I’m sure everyone has seen at least one person spinning a little toy around school. Fidget spinners are the new “hot” toy, but should they be allowed in schools? Many school districts are starting to ban fidget spinners to keep them out of classes. Fidget spinners are small hand held toys that are meant to help reduce stress, anxiety, and

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Are you headphones spying on you?

What would you do if your headphones were spying on you? If hundreds or thousands of people were privy to any media you listened to? A new lawsuit against Bose Headphones was announced, claiming that the audio equipment was collecting personal information from its users without permission. Kyle Zak, the proprietor of this case, did everything correctly. “He registered the

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House Bill 13: What is Going on and How Does it Affect Our School System?

For many elementary school P.E, Art, and Music teachers, House Bill 13 may determine whether or not they have jobs for the 2017-18 school year. Back in 2016, a law was passed to reduce kindergarten, first, second, and third grade class sizes from at least twenty-four students to between nineteen and twenty-one. In the North Carolina General Assembly, the House

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Is diet soda tough on the brain?

While most people typically reach for artificially sweetened beverages in hopes of dodging the sugar, recent studies show that diet soda is not the healthy alternative. Gulping down an artificially sweetened beverage not only affects your body’s health, but researchers are now saying that it also puts your brain at risk. While findings did not completely prove that diet drinks

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Where the Pepsi commerical ‘Missed its Mark’

Remember the picture of the African American female standing calm and defiant as she was rushed by riot-gear-wearing law enforcement? Since its capturing in the summer of 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the contrast of emotions that this image presents has continued to leave its viewers awestruck. They cannot forget the tensions between the people and the police that the

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United creates Turbulence with the Media

If you have kept up with any kind of news lately, you have probably noticed a video of a man being violently dragged off of a United Airlines flight. On Sunday, April 9, a flight boarded for Kentucky was overbooked, and the attendants went through their typical process of finding volunteers to vouch for a later flight. None of the

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The hydrogen powered Chevy

General Motors and the U.S. Army have some serious ingenuity; the two of them created the first Chevrolet off-road truck that is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, not to be confused the fuel cell that does not burn hydrogen. Alternatively, hydrogen is pumped into the fuel cell where the ZH2 has gathered oxygen from the air outside. The two

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