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Currently Informed Supports Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders By Aryan Mukherjee      We, at Currently Informed, are excited to celebrate the unique culture and historical presence of Asian Americans and Pacic Islanders during the month of May.      An Asian American can be defined as anyone who is, of any generation, Asian, and is or has had family who have immigrated to America. Pacic Islanders are those to reside on the islands of the Pacific that are territories of the United States. Unfortunately, both groups faced debilitating racism, hatred, and gut-wrenching conditions in our country’s past, and the month of May is set to rectify such painful memories by rejuvenating in glorious tradition. From conventional dances to games to songs, Currently Informed looks forward to spotlighting the various facets of Asian American and Pacic Islander culture throughout the month and showcasing our support.      But why specically was May chosen ...

Sculpture Park, Alabama- A Step in the Right Direction Opening on the first week of April in Montgomery, Alabama will be a new Sculpture Park commemorating the past experiences of enslaved African Americans in the United States of America’s history and containing several different forms of physical artwork modeling the worst aspect of our country’s history. The park contains 17 acres of statues along the Alabama River, a key source of transportation for the African American slave trade itself centuries ago. With over 15 million African American men, women, and children perishing over the course of the 400 years in American history during the slave trade, such monuments are cardinal to preserving the history of the abominations that transpired. They simultaneously work to touch the hearts of citizens and those abroad to empathize with victims and never repeat such a travesty again. Logistically, the project, created by social justice activist and director of the Equal Justice Initiati...

  What’s The Matter ? Something Not ‘Normal’ ? According to Professor Elisabetta Barberio from University of Melbourne, over 70% of our galaxy is made up of dark matter, a theoretical substance which as per NASA, can only be mapped out in galaxy clusters based on gravitational lensing with light and space-time. With its wavelength straying far from the radio-frequency continuum, this omnipresent matter’s highest concentrated location cannot be definitively concluded by physicists; even so, many have speculated that an answer lies in more darkness: black holes. This flyby mission will send an RTG-powered space probe into the Hyades Cluster- the hypothetical hub of the closest known black holes to our galaxy- in an attempt to determine properties of dark matter such as the force and nature of its gravitational pull. It will also investigate dark matter’s ability to interact with the nucleus of an atom in a chamber prohibiting the entry of cosmic rays and radioactivity. As black...

  Over Pain It hurts. It’s like a thousand pins and needles strangling me from all ends. Every part of me aches. I keep crying and crying but it won’t go away, Just temporarily slips away before round 2. My knees are quivering. My bones are brittle and eroded. I’ve been chastised for far too long to be able to feel pain, But it beats louder inside of me, louder than my heart beat, Louder than the echoes of an orchestra band, Beating away through the night. I’m scared. I feel like throwing up. Everywhere I go it feels like I’m being watched, Every time I want someone to watch me, There is no one. Everyone always says I’m being dramatic, I’m overthinking it. I should just suck it up and move on. But I can’t. I need someone, something, some way to hold onto what isn’t this creaky guard rail called hope. I feel pain, and I don’t care if it's less than that of the ones around me. I want to breathe. Just let me breathe. It was this how so many others felt around me, feel around me each ...

  UHS Math Club Demolishes the Competition at Math  Day at the Beach 2024 An Article Written as Requested for the UHS Students and PTA by: Aryan Mukherjee The UHS Math Club sent 3 teams to compete in the Math Day at the Beach event hosted at California State University Long Beach on March 23rd, 2024. Team A in the upper division achieved a resounding victory, winning first place and having 4 of the 6 students on the team earn a perfect score on the individual exam. Additionally, Team B 1 procured a silver medal in the team event with 1 perfect score individually. Now, for the 2nd year in a row, UHS brings home the coveted trophy for this event and showcases to all of Southern California just how refined the limitless capabilities of the Trojans are. "[I am] very proud of this group... The perpetual trophy is back where it belongs, in our display case in the front office," team coach and head Math Club advisor Eric Shulman states. As far as logistics are concerned, the c...

  Currently Informed embraces Black History Month By: Aryan Mukherjee February is Black History Month. Great , you say, feigning a smile and then going back to texting your friends racist jokes in your group chat. Now imagine what you’ve done in a more flushed out sense. Millions of African Americans were ransacked, beat, lynched, raped, and had their wills extracted out and burnt to a crisp under excruciating amounts of pain and sacrifice, their struggles so real and so incredibly dark that Black History Month was created to honor their suffering in our history. And you have just slandered that all because times have changed and you refuse to look back. You see, this is not just a special month where you would greet your African American friends with a little more cordiality than would typically be beckoned. Rather, it is a testament to something that many could never even imagine living through- something to be remembered. To briefly sum up, Black History month originated as ...

  Currently Informed informedcurrently@gmail.com Aryan Mukherjee OUR STANCE ON MEDIA LITERACY At Currently Informed, we believe that everyone should have an equitable opportunity to traverse the Internet and have access to digital media in a world where it is becoming ever more prevalent. The digital divide, or gap between those who have readily available and reliable access to the Internet and those who don’t is something that has risen by 11% in the past decade and a half, and surges from a few main factors. For one, there is geography. Internet Service Providers simply do not have enough money and resources allocated to them by the government to extend their transmission network lines to every corner of the planet. To compensate, they just implement services in the most packed and urban places available to ultimately make as money as they can. Additionally, there is income. In most areas of the United States, schools and libraries are lucky enough to have the funding available t...