For those of you who missed it and for those of you who want to see it again, here is the Skit that we showed at Rise. Hope you enjoy it. We’d love to hear from you. Please comment or share which character you identify with.
Heads Up: The next Rise event will be on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
This year, I decided to take a health class that our school offers and requires all students to take. Though at times unbearably boring, we recently watched a documentary produced by Frontline which piqued my interest. This particular documentary followed the lives of several teenagers from a small, well-to-do town. These teenagers had everything a they could possibly want and need: lots of money, the latest in clothing or gadgets, cars, and a few were quite popular at school. However, the makers of the documentary discovered that most felt very …
Here’s a man on the street video where UC Berkeley students were asked, “Does God Exist?” The film was made by InterHigh mentors and shown at InterHigh Monthly #1.
If you’re interested in knowing who’s who among scientist who doubt Darwin’s theory of evolution then go to this site. In it you will find a list of academics, scholars, scientists and medical
professionals from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and other top research institutions stating their disagreement with Darwin’s theory to account for the complexity of life.
Also, click here to download an article written by Dr. Jonathan Wells, Ph.D, UC Berkeley. The article, titled “Survival of the Fakest,” reveals the hoaxes behind the famous “icons of evolution” that have been presented …
“There was a time, literally, when there were no teenagers.” What Diana West is suggesting in The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Threatens Western Civilization will undoubtedly sound ridiculous to thousands of youth pastors, family therapists, and advertising gurus whose livelihoods depend on entertaining, counseling, and selling to teenagers. Nevertheless, West argues that adolescence didn’t always exist.
Mark Henderson, science editor of the Times Online, recently wrote an article about Darwinius Masillae, once hailed earlier this year as the missing link. In the article Henderson reports that Darwinius Masillae, aka “Ida,” is not even a distant relative. Recent studies have shown that “Ida” is more like a lemur or a loris. Erik Seiffert of Stony Brook University writes, “Our analysis provides no support for the claim that Darwinius is a link in the origin of higher primates, and instead indicates that, if anything, Darwinius …
Whether it is from performing in front of a crowd or just listening to some tunes on an iPod, music is definitely part of everyone’s lives. Music is a big part of my life. I play alto saxophone at band and the piano at home, listen to songs on my iPod, and perform at a local hospital and convalescent homes. What we listen to influences us and how we behave, sometimes in a negative way.
Sam McCroskey was a talented musician all throughout his life. A native of the Bay Area, …
