07/30/2020

Wazzup y’all. How are you doing? For me, the daily biz has been quite exciting. Mainly because of my love for colors. Let me elaborate. Yesterday on the Decathlon podcast I am apart of, we talked about Souvenir by Gerald Laing, a British pop artist. The piece is really captivating due to its bold colors

Cars 101: The Exhaust

INTRODUCTION Welcome back. Lask week, I introduced you to the vast world of automobiles, and we dove into the heart of the modern vehicle, the engine. We took at a look at the 4-stroke cycle, and how exactly the engine is able to turn gasoline into motion of the car. At the end of the

07/29/2020

Hey there! Jaswin here with my second “What’s Going On” post, and well the truth is, not too terribly much! I have been relaxing as much as I can, because once college applications open soon, I know I’ll be working restlessly to complete them (but hey, what’s new there?). Anyways, let’s see what’s new in

Making Sense of Cryptocurrency

“Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: A currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.”The future of money is Digital Currency.” Nassim Taleb | Essayist “The future of money is Digital Currency.” Bill Gates | Founder of Microsoft From the quotes listed above, you can see that cryptocurrency has a big hype surrounding it

President Trump’s Memorandum on the 2020 Census

The Memorandum On July 21st President Trump issued a presidential memorandum calling for change to the 2020 decennial census. The president’s memorandum orders the Secretary of Commerce to exclude the illegal immigrants living in the United States in his report of the census to the president.  The decennial census is a constitutionally required count of

Saving Private Ryan – Movie Review

Rating – ★★★★★ Director – Steven Spielberg Main Cast – Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel, Jeremy Davies Well, I guess the Leo streak has ended, but! there have been quite a few cast overlaps regardless! Spielberg, Hanks, and Damon return with one of the most intense, gritty films I have

The Arrow Review

Hey guys! I had finished the Arrow just recently and I thought for my first post I could talk about it and what I found interesting about the show. I will give my overall review in the end.  To begin, the show began with an amazing introduction about a playboy billionaire named Oliver Queen(Stephen Amell),

07/27/2020

Hey all! I’m here with my second What’s Going On Post. It’s crazy how fast the summer has seemed to go by. I know that it seems a bit redundant to lament about how weird the past few months have been, especially while being guilty of having done nothing at all during it, but it’s

Blast from the Past: July 26

Starting today, I will be starting a new series under The Science Lab called Blast from the Past. It will feature a notable science/technological event that has happened on that day in history. With that said, let’s start with today’s. In 1969, scientists had the first look at the 46 pounds of moon rocks Apollo

07/26/2020

Hey there! Back for another What’s Going On post! I am terrified that summer has gone by so quickly in a period that seems like it has stretched on forever. How did the months of March, April, and May drag on for so long, yet June and July decided to be a quick sprint? It’s