Because of the high-stress environment of high school, several school-based stress management and wellness programs have been developed for the purpose of encouraging stress resilience and coping strategies. Yoga is considered one of the most promising of these programs, as it combines strength and flexibility exercise with relaxation and meditation techniques.
This week Finnish communications company Nokia Corp. filed for a patent for a tattoo or badge that would send a “perceivable impulse” to the user’s skin in lieu of an audible ringtone or vibration. This would enable consumers to have updates from one’s phone without a loud ringtone, which could interrupt a meeting or movie,…
Controversy erupted immediately following the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to purchase 7 million pounds of ammonium hydroxide-treated beef as a part of school lunch programs nationwide. Sally (Won Kyung) OhSally is a returning JSR editor and Executive Editor of Irvine High School's student newspaper, El Vaquero.More Posts
At their 2012 Annual Meeting on Feb. 7, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) presented research that found female youth soccer athletes have an increased risk for irregular menstruation. Moreover, these soccer players have a higher risk for a stress fracture or ligament injury. Sally (Won Kyung) OhSally is a returning JSR editor…
There was immediate backlash on Thursday as popular social networking site Twitter announced that it would be refining its technology to adopt a policy to censor tweets by country. Sally (Won Kyung) OhSally is a returning JSR editor and Executive Editor of Irvine High School's student newspaper,…
On the weekend of November 19-20th, Tustin High School hosted another successful Model United Nations conference. Sally (Won Kyung) OhSally is a returning JSR editor and Executive Editor of Irvine High School's student newspaper, El Vaquero.More Posts
SM Entertainment, one of the largest record label and talent agencies in South Korea, burst into the limelight last Sunday night with the SM Town Live Concert in New York City. Held in Madison Square Garden, the massive performance was attended by no less than 15,000 people, having been sold out within weeks. The…
In an ambitious new project, nineteen-year old Kelley Katzenmeyer is currently directing a documentary film, which concerns the everyday lives of Korean high school students, as well as the respective pressures put on them to achieve academic and aesthetic perfection. South Korea has undoubtedly come far, the documentary states, in 60 short years of transforming…
There’s only so far a conventional tablet can go—as any digital artist will tell you, a tablet is too big to carry around comfortably, can only work with a computer handy, takes a long time to use comfortably, and in the end never really has the feel of paper. <!–more–> On-the-fly, pen-on-paper artwork has always…
On July 16, 2011, after five years of continuous work, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) has finally revealed its new, cutting-edge Dinosaur Hall to the public. With 300 fossils and 20 complete dinosaur and ancient sea creature specimens—many of them never before displayed—the collection is one of the most comprehensive in…
