For the past couple of months, there have been clown sightings that have spread fear and panic throughout the country. Citizens have claimed to see these frightening clowns near schools and parks, threatening innocent people. Videos of these clowns standing near busy destinations have gone viral on social media such as Instagram and Twitter. These…
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The Importance of Blood Drives
Every semester, North Hollywood High School hosts two blood drives, and there is always a great scramble among the students tasked with finding donors. Even after promises of skipped periods and free food, there are not many willing participants. Despite the reluctance and refusal to donate blood, where and why do all these blood drives…
Galaxy Note 7: Phone or Bomb?
The all new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been released, but the phone is already seeing technical difficulties. There have been cases of the phone exploding in consumers’ pockets, leaving them injured and without their mobile devices. There have been 92 complaints about batteries overheating, phones exploding, and phones melting; 26 of the reports are…
Another Championship Victory for CVHS Football??
The The CVHS football team, the 2014 CIF Southern Section Southeast Division champions, started off their season with a 51-8 win against Verdugos Hills High School. This promising beginning has made CVHS football a favorable contender for the championships. Their victory is even being correlated to the success of the 2014 season. The 2015…
Newly Discovered Medicine Gives Hopes to Athletes
According to World Health Organization (WHO), 6,316 people die each hour, 151,600 people die each day, and 55.3 million people die each year. A Pulmonary Embolism (PE) is one of the common causes of death, with 50,000 to 200,000 annual deaths. It is a disease in which one or more arteries in the lungs become…
Pokemon Go: Exciting or Exasperating?
I remember the first few weeks when Pokemon Go first appeared on the IOS App Store and the Android Play Store. During the night when it cooled down, dozens of people all over Fullerton would emerge from their households with their smartphones and would go wandering around the city’s monuments, parks, and historical places….
Robo-Taxis Run the World
On August 25th, nuTonomy.inc, a company in Cambridge, launched the world’s first self-driving taxi service through six taxicabs in Singapore. The test taxi used cameras and lasers to maneuver through the road, and people who had previously applied for the pilot run were able to experience the ride. Although there still must be a human…
California’s ban on accepting ITT students
On August 26, an emergency decision was announced by the for-profit technical institute, ITT Technical Institute, which stated that its California campuses would no longer accept new students who received federal financial aid. Much to the dismay of those in the technological field, ITT has recently been in hot water for misconduct and failure to…
BHHS Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is a high school and middle school competition in which numerous schools from the United States participate to demonstrate interest and devotion to learning the world of science. The competition offers numerous building events and study events dealing with topics like optics, astronomy, chemistry lab, invasive species, microbe mission, forensics, and robots. Each…
Running: A Beneficial Drug
Throughout the past 14 years of life, I’ve met many people who despised running and looked down upon it as a pastime. But to me, running is an experience like no other. At times, nothing can so make me feel the adrenaline coursing through my veins as I start my run, or the sense of…