Assuming you’re not mentioned anywhere in the Voyager 1 probe’s records in interstellar space, you have an opportunity to send your name into space a different way: on a probe around the sun. This summer, NASA will be launching their Parker Solar Probe to explore the outer atmosphere of the sun in the hopes of gaining a better understanding of our local star. It’s […]

On March 1, Kofi Bazzell-Smith, a self-taught artist and the president of the Japanese Culture Club at Parkland, led a workshop on Yonkoma Manga. Bazzell-Smith taught students from a PowerPoint and the Japanese Culture Club handed out sushi. The workshop was held in D105 from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m.. To begin, the Japanese Culture […]

TAKEOVERS Treasury warns on Qualcomm sale Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt of Qualcomm could pose a national security risk because of Qualcomm’s leadership in developing critical semiconductor technology, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Qualcomm’s sale to Singapore-based Broadcom could hurt the chipmaker’s competitiveness by reducing research and development, which would threaten U.S. security, the Treasury […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday killing all 39 people on board, Russian officials said, an incident that sharply raised the death toll from the Kremlin’s intervention in the Syrian war. President Vladimir Putin, who is running for re-election later this month, declared in December that the Russian […]

Asian stock markets are mixed on Wednesday amid cautious trades following news that White House chief     economic adviser Gary Cohn, an advocate for free trade, has resigned from the Trump administration. Cohn’s resignation stoked fears that Trump will go ahead with his plan to impose tariffs and risk a trade war. It also overshadowed easing […]

Good design has the power to transform healthcare, both inside and outside the hospital, according to Royal Philips’ chief design officer Sean Carney. “It’s a huge shift for Philips,” said Carney on Tuesday, speaking to Fortune’s deputy editor Brian O’Keefe at the Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore. “We’ve been in consumer electronics and lighting, but now we’re […]

How often do you think you feel stressed? A recent study of 2,000 Brits, by health tracking service Forth with Life, found we spend an average nine solid days each month battling stress. Whether it’s the 500 unread emails in your work inbox, a stack of unpaid bills waiting on your doormat, or demanding family […]

Roseann Lake, author of ‘Leftover in China’, discusses how women who aren’t married by 25 are reshaping China’s traditional culture. Roseann Lake: Leftover women in China are a strange byproduct or aftershock of the one-child policy. In 1979, China enacted a once child per family policy to reduce the growth rate of its enormous population. Roseann […]

After a few too many summer brunches and sugar binges, Beauticate writer Molly decided her skin was looking a bit dull and in need of a wakeup call. In a bid to get to the root of the problem, she decided to put a few popular beauty diets through their paces, and descended upon two […]

The Trump administration unveiled an agenda for “energy dominance” shortly after taking office, promising to curb the global influence of countries like Russia and China with American energy exports. Whether or not the administration succeeds will depend a great deal on this week’s trade talks in Mexico. There, U.S. negotiators will continue to talk terms […]