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Toxic, Damaging, and Everywhere: How Phones are Harming Your …
WEBThe health risks of these everyday devices don’t stop here. In order for a phone to derive service for calls and texts, it needs reception from a cell tower. When you’re talking on your phone, it converts your voice into a signal that is transmitted via radio waves to the nearest cell tower. Signals are transmitted back and forth from these
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The Other Fifty Percent: Understanding the Looming Ban on …
WEBJackson Women’s Health Organization. This decision denationalized the right to abortion, and instead placed female reproductive health in the hands of individual states. Many states have since passed extreme laws that restrict abortion, leaving countless Americans to rely on medication abortion for safe and effective pregnancy termination.
Agriculture: A Global Health Concern – The Beacon Beat
WEBHealth risks posed by genetic engineered food include toxins, allergic reactions, higher risks of infections and diseases, different cancers, and decreased nutrition. Furtherly, a study conducted by Doctors Arpad Pusztai and Stanley Ewen of the University of Aberdeen examined the effect on rats of genetically engineered potatoes which …
Let’s Be Awake: The Benefits of Starting the School Day at 9am
WEBThe primary purpose of school at Beacon is to provide a fulfilling academic experience. The pros to a later start time greatly outweigh the cons. If the start time is changed to 9am at Beacon, the students at our school will become noticeably more prepared for the school day, both mentally and academically. We will have higher …
Booze and Gyms But No School in NYC – The Beacon Beat
WEBYazdan Yazdanpanah, an infectious disease specialist who advises France’s government on the pandemic, explained that “the decline has been slower because schools are open, but we had to find a middle ground.” However, he added, “the slower drop in infections has been offset by positive effects on education, mental health …
Homework: What Can Be Done Better – The Beacon Beat
WEBA 2014 Stanford study looked at the students from the most high-achieving schools and communities and saw that they bore the most stress, physical health problems and imbalance in their social and academic lives because of these increased amounts of homework. The Stanford study looked at more than 4,300 students and found that the …
Coronavirus and the 2020 Olympics: A Breakdown
WEBBy Sammy Bovitz The coronavirus outbreak has already become an existential issue in the sports world. The NBA season has been suspended indefinitely, the NHL season may soon follow, the MLB season has been delayed, and March Madness will not be played, among other sporting events. With those in mind, let’s turn to the 2020…
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Who is Cool Girl
WEBThe novel chronicles Esther’s mental health journey, including her multiple attempts to take her life, failed electroshock therapy, her sexual assault, and her eventual recovery after hospitalization. Plath specifically explores how gender relates to mental illness, as Esther also has to navigate the societal standards for women in the 50’s.
Communication During the Pandemic – The Beacon Beat
WEBBy Olivia Barker Dell As of now, our world is recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic. COVID-19 was first reported from Wuhan, China to the World Health Organization on December 31st, 2019. It has been over 500 days since the first report of COVID-19 cases. During the pandemic, everything has shut down, people have stopped …
Aquaculture: The Fish On Your Plate – The Beacon Beat
WEBGMO means genetically modified organism, and GMO fish has negative impacts on human health. According to nih.gov, the results of studies with GM fish indicate that they cause toxic effects such as hepatic, pancreatic, renal, or reproductive effects and alter the hematological, biochemical, and immunologic parameters.
BEET: Influencers Expected to Explode if TikTok Ban Passes
WEBBy Anna Di Iorio-Reyes METAVERSE— Earlier this week, scientists predicted that influencers on the social media platform TikTok will experience withdrawal-induced spontaneous combustion if the video app becomes banned in the United States. “These kids will, literally, blow up,” said a chief scientist at National Remedy Association (NRA), …
Sports arenas reopen: What will become our new normal, post …
WEBBy Olivia Barker Dell Covid-19 has developed into a full on pandemic over the last year. By early February of 2020 we knew about the incoming virus, but we never thought it would affect our lives to this extent. Everything we once knew as normal, was switched and mixed. Working from home, learning from home,…
THE NBA BUBBLE : A Major Win Among The Losses
WEBBy Griffin Feather The NBA is back just a few short months since the end of the one-of-a-kind end to the 2020 season. This rapid turnaround, like most things during the pandemic, is unprecedented in major league sports and poses all kinds of questions about the health and safety of the players. But one thing…
Larger than Life: The Story of Andre the Giant
WEBDecember 17, 2021. 3 minutes. By Reiner Geiling. Andre the Giant was a man everyone wanted to see, but in reality, fame ruined him. His true personality was hidden from the public and few truly knew the origin of his massive size. Andre Roussimoff was born in Coulommiers, France — the French Alps.
Small Feline, Big Heart: Honoring The Life of Guits Linksy-Yeung
WEBBy Kate Jeffrey Guits Linksy-Yeung and her prized portrait. On March 11th, 2016, sixteen-year-old Guits Linksy-Yeung passed away peacefully in the Manhattan apartment she shared with resident Beacon language teacher, John Linsky, due to an unfortunate health complication. Anyone who knew Guits knew that her loving …
Let Beacon be Beacon: Why PBA Week Should Continue
WEBBeacon High School is part of the NYC consortium of schools that uses PBAs as measures of progress, rather than finals and Regents. Removing PBA week undermines Beacon’s mission. Teachers have built their curriculums on the assumption that students would have a PBA week in January and June. Mr. Anderson, a history teacher, …
Why idolizing Breakfast at Tiffany’s may not be a great idea
WEBBy Miranda Yang. If you’ve ever watched Gossip Girl, you know that one of the main characters, Blair Waldorf, has a recurring obsession with Audrey Hepburn’s character, Holly Golightly, in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.And if you live in this day and age, you know Blair doesn’t stand alone. Among Blair is a never-ending sea of people who will …
The Commercialization of Christmas has Diminished Hanukkah
WEBBy Anne Isman “So Hanukkah’s like the Jewish Christmas right?” This is a question I’ve heard countless times during the holiday season, when ornamented trees start sprouting up across the city with small, dimly lit menorahs trailing behind them. My answer to the question is simple: No. Hanukkah is, of course, not the “Jewish Christmas.”…
New York City’s Education System and Feeder Schools
WEBBy Cali Carss As the school year begins, there is a noticeable sense of familiarity among the freshmen, even in such a new environment. Groups of students where everyone clearly already knows one another and are comfortable together are abundant at Beacon. While this is not the case for everyone, it seems that much of…
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