In the past few years, California has seen a spike in opioid-related addiction and deaths. Sadly, an alarming amount of these deaths have been caused by a “cloaked killer” called fentanyl. Fentanyl is a highly potent, synthetic opioid that is prescribed to those suffering from severe pain like cancer. The fentanyl causing these recent deaths […]
We used to only recognize one species of Bryde’s whale; that being the Balaenoptera with two subspecies: Eden’s whale (B. edeni edeni), and Bryde’s whale (B. edeni brydei). It was this January of 2021 that we learned otherwise. Using genetic data, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered that the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s […]
When you hear the words musical theatre, what is the first thing to come to mind? For most, it is a fun, upbeat story, set to music, like West Side Story or Grease. Well, in 2014, David Malloy took everyone’s ideas of what a musical is and flipped it on it’s head with his original […]
Whether you wanted to be a princess, an astronaut, or a bartender, most of us had an idea of what we wanted to be when we grew up. The same goes for the teachers at Mendocino High and Community School. I interviewed them, asking what they wanted to be when they grew up when they […]