BY AUDREY STOTTER
STAFF WRITER
Turkey
Bats
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Space
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Cold
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Reindeer
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Volleyball: From a Players Perspective
BY SEHANA VALLE
STAFF WRITER
Volleyball is a pretty important sport here at MSA. The Dragons have some amazing volleyball teams. There are three volleyball teams. We have a Varsity, Junior Varsity and C team. I decided to interview Amira Aryal from the Varsity Volleyball team. I have asked her what she thinks about the team, how she feels about the sport itself, and anything else she has to say.
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BY SAM ELLINGSON
STAFF WRITER
I somewhat consider myself to be not afraid of bugs (save bees, wasps, and hornets). When I was little, I played with fire ants during recess (my family and I lived overseas in Malaysia for some time). When one of my family members needs a particular bug removed from their presence, I can take a paper tissue and complete the job. However, researching these terrifying bugs to write an article for newspaper club, I came across some pretty creepy crawlies that made me shrink in fear. Here are the five best ones I found (You have been warned)!
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BY ALETHEA LO
STAFF WRITER
The blue-ringed octopus is made up of two main colors. Those two colors are yellow and blue. The blue-ringed octopus gets its name from the rings that spread across its whole body. Those rings only appear when they feel threatened. Most octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish are venomous, but the blue-ringed octopus is in a different league of its own. Their venom is 1,000 times more deadly than cyanide.
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BY EDWARD STEURY
STAFF WRITER
AI-generated art is a strange and wonderful field, and although some are concerned about its impacts on art and the expression of creative freedom, I am here to somewhat naively sway that belief. To begin, I should perhaps explain the brief history of AI-generated art. The first real boom in public interest came from DALLE Mini, a small program that would generate nine blurry, incomprehensible piles of visual noise that sometimes vaguely resembled what you asked for. To me, interest was only gained because people looked upon DALLE Mini as a joke or because they were worried. After all, they supposed, “That blob of red kind of looks like a solo cup! That’s what I asked for! THIS IS THE TERMINATOR TIMELINE!” But then, when interest died down, as it so often does on the Internet, the topic of today’s article was born.
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BY TAHLIA CAPPS
STAFF WRITER
This year, I am in seventh grade, and I am doing really well in school. I understand if all the sixth graders here are scared and feel like they want to cry. I was like this too and it was EXTRA hard for me as I graduated from a Montessori school. As this is a science school, I had mainly failing grades by the end of the semester! But now that I know the lay of the land, I am a confident, happy, and smart young woman. If you want to know how to push through as I did, keep on reading. If you are pretty confident, this will still be there when you need it.
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