Dopamine Crashes, and the Planet We Pretend Isn’t on a Diet

Why CRV Matters in California

This piece covers SAIL Amsterdam 2025, a major maritime festival that returned in August after ten years. It describes both the historical side (tall ships, Dutch seafaring heritage) and the modern side (sustainability innovations in shipping). It also weaves in reflection, showing how the event connects past and future.

The Rising Threat of Microplastics in the Bay Area

In mid-June, the coastal city of Nice, France became the center of global ocean diplomacy. From June 9–13, 2025, more than 12,000 delegates — heads of state, scientists, activists, and industry leaders — convened for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3)

May 2025 was the second-warmest May ever recorded, with global temperatures averaging 1.10 °C above the 20th-century norm. It feels like every month a new record is broken for how severe our climate change is getting.

When you board a high-altitude flight, your mind might wander to legroom, turbulence, or the view — but rarely to cosmic rays.

Toss the bottle in the blue bin, pat yourself on the back, and boom—you’re saving the planet... right?

Between March 13 and March 16, 2025, a historic tornado outbreak swept across large parts of the United States — especially the Midwest and the South.

How Manual Transmissions Work—And What They Mean for the Future of Driving

Are Windmills as Clean as They Seem?

How humanity’s deadliest hunt—its own greed—gave birth to protection

The same moral failure: when we treat the environment as expendable collateral, it always collects the debt—with interest.

For starters, it has nothing to do with football

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Simulating Chance and Choice: What started as a simple coding challenge became a project about risk, math, and the illusion of control.