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Espada y Escudo

Espada y Escudo

The Student News Site of Vel Phillips Memorial

Artist Chosen for New UW CDIS Installation

Artist Chosen for New UW CDIS Installation

Jonathan Buscher March 1, 2024

In April of 2023, the ground was broken on the UW campus for the University of Wisconsin - Madison’s School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences building (CDIS). Once finished, the building will...

Are Your Smart Glasses Smarter Than You?

Are Your Smart Glasses Smarter Than You?

Monika Jeraj March 1, 2024

A few months ago, I wrote about the Ray Ban x Meta Smart Glasses offered at Target. Like many other products of this kind, these glasses can take pictures, record videos, livestream to various social media,...

104-Year-Old Sky Diver Breaks Record

104-Year-Old Sky Diver Breaks Record

Jonathan Buscher March 1, 2024

On October 1, 2023, 104-year-old Dorthy Hoffner set off and ended up meeting one (perhaps unexpected) goal: to become the oldest verified person to skydive. First skydiving when she was 100, according...

Oklahoma Non-Binary Teen Dies After Altercation With Classmates

Oklahoma Non-Binary Teen Dies After Altercation With Classmates

Ava Kahn March 1, 2024

Nex Benedict was a 16-year-old student in Oklahoma who identified as non-binary and used they/them pronouns. On February 8th, after a “physical altercation” with classmates in the bathroom, they passed...

Social Media CEOs Questioned By Senate

Ava Kahn February 1, 2024

On January 31, 2024, the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned the chief executives of five big tech companies: Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord, and X (formerly known as Twitter), about potential harm from...

Explorers May Have Found Amelia Earharts Plane

Explorers May Have Found Amelia Earhart’s Plane

Ava Kahn February 1, 2024

Amelia Earhart was a pioneer of American aviation and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was one of the first pilots to promote commercial aviation. In 1937, she attempted to be...

Prospective Mars Plane Receives NASA Funding

Prospective Mars Plane Receives NASA Funding

Jonathan Buscher February 1, 2024

Recently, NASA provided advanced grant funding for a new project that could potentially support a more in-depth investigation into the presence of water on Mars. Called MAGGIE (Mars Aerial and Ground Global...

Doomsday Clock Update: Its Still 90 Seconds To Midnight

Doomsday Clock Update: It’s Still 90 Seconds To Midnight

Amalia Weix February 1, 2024

On January 23rd, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock will remain at 90 seconds to midnight in 2024, the closest the Clock has ever been. The Bulletin attributed this...

The Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock

Amalia Weix January 7, 2024

It’s January, which means soon we’ll get the yearly update on the Doomsday Clock. Every year, members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’s Science and Security Board convene to decide whether...

Ray-Ban x Meta x Target: How Smart Glasses Brought Them Together

Ray-Ban x Meta x Target: How Smart Glasses Brought Them Together

Monika Jeraj January 7, 2024

When I walked into Target on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, the last thing I expected to find was a fancy new pair of smart glasses. First of all, functional smart glasses have not exactly been advertised...

COP28: Moving Towards Renewable Energy

COP28: Moving Towards Renewable Energy

Ava Kahn January 1, 2024

In the first two weeks of December, 2023, 200 parties from around the world came together in Dubai for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The conference had a clear conclusion known as the Global...

Israel-Hamas War Continues

Israel-Hamas War Continues

Ava Kahn January 1, 2024

UN Approves Aid Resolution in Gaza The United Nations has passed a resolution which calls for safe humanitarian access throughout Gaza. The resolution will allow expanded aid to enter the territory,...

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