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Foothill PD chooses electric. Zero DS. Photo: Elliot Hu

Electric Motorcycles: Urban Eco-Transportation of Tomorrow

Elliot Hu, Contributor
December 8, 2017

You may have seen Foothill's mobile police units around campus, either on patrol or helping students and faculty with things like door locks and security. What you may not have noticed is the department’s...

Op-Ed: The Sociology of Climate Change Denial

Op-Ed: The Sociology of Climate Change Denial

Logan Keifling, Staff Writer
December 6, 2017
Over 15,000 climate scientists from 188 different countries signed a joint declaration certifying human's role in climate change. Why are we still doubtful?
Petroleum & Permafrost: Impacts of The Senate Tax Plan

Petroleum & Permafrost: Impacts of The Senate Tax Plan

Alix Schoback, News and Politics Editor
December 5, 2017
The Senate's recently passed tax bill has significant implications for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaskan permafrost, and our warming planet.
My Experience at Bioneers 2017: Rise Up and Confront Climate Change

My Experience at Bioneers 2017: Rise Up and Confront Climate Change

Anita Dubinko, Contributor
November 21, 2017

At the inaugural morning of this year’s Bioneers conference, 18 Foothill students sat in the audience as the talented Afia Walking Tree and Deb Lane performed a blood pumping chorus of lively drumming....

The Standing Rock Reservation camp in December 2016

International Education Week: A Native Perspective on Climate Change

Aditi Pandey, Staff Writer
November 17, 2017

“My grandfather was brought to boarding schools run by missionaries...they killed the Indian but kept the man,” Rochelle Diver described of her family’s history in the United States. Diver spoke...

An artists concept of the 2004 occurrence in which a neutron star underwent a star quake causing it to flare brightly, temporarily blind all x-ray satellites in orbit. (NASA/Wikimedia Commons)

Brain Blast: When Jimmy Neutron Stars Collide

Rebekah Smith, Managing Editor
November 3, 2017

LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, in Livingston, Louisiana, made a splash in February of 2016 with its discovery that confirmed Einstein’s theoretical gravitational waves....

Agroecology: An Innovative Way of Farming Led by Cuba facing Climate Change

Agroecology: An Innovative Way of Farming Led by Cuba facing Climate Change

Sophia Falco, Contributor
June 20, 2017

Cuba, much like the rest of the planet, is under direct threat from climate change. Sea levels, which are rising at an alarming rate due to human activity, as well as extreme weather, are all serious threats...

Clouds Blue Question Mark Red Background Sky

When A Certain Uncertainty Means Certainty: The Failure of Scientists to Communicate Effectively

Bernadette De Zoysa, Contributor
June 14, 2017

A physicist will be quick to point out that speed and velocity are not at all the same thing even though Merriam-Webster declares these words synonymous. When an ecologist uses the word cosmopolitan they...

Phish ‘n’ Chips: Some Attacks Have Little Defense in Cyber Security

Phish ‘n’ Chips: Some Attacks Have Little Defense in Cyber Security

William Robertson, Senior Editor
May 23, 2017

The notorious “hackings” that intelligence experts believe Russia perpetrated in order to push Trump into the White House brought into public consciousness the issues of cyber security. Although the...

Dawn in the Anthropocene

Illustrating Anthropocene Impacts with Abstract Mathematics

Ronnie Miller, Contributor
April 14, 2017

Let me paint a picture in your mind. Once upon a time, the major influencers on our planet were astronomical forcings, geophysical forcings, and internal dynamics. Throughout time, the three major influencers...

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