• Fat Bear Week: What you need to know

    Eva Buto evie@psu.edu Staff Writer It’s that time of the year where the weather is cooling, and bears are getting ready to hibernate. Brown bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska begin to pack on weight by fishing in the Brooks River. Unbeknownst to them, there are webcams set up in a 1.5 mile radius…

  • Candy Corn: Fall’s Most Controversial Food

    Eva Buto evie@psu.edu Staff Writer Candy corn is up there with pineapple on pizza and cilantro for the most controversial food. The tooth-rotting sweet has been a Halloween staple for years. However, it initially wasn’t related to the holiday at all! It was created in Philadelphia in the late 19th century, but remained obscure until…

  • Sadie Carpenter and Deconstruction; The Leaving Eden Podcast

    Amanda Ross Amr8469@psu.edu Staff writer   On August 11, 2020, the Leaving Eden podcast began airing episodes. Hosted by Sadie Carpenter and Gavri’el HaCohen, the series focuses on Sadie’s deconstruction after leaving the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church, or the IFB. The podcast is an important resource for both understanding the IFB as well as other…

  • Behrend Student Spotlight: Petrichor

    Petrichor  by Sawani Shinde sas8224@psu.edu   Petrichor, the scent of rain-kissed earth, An olfactory symphony, nature’s rebirth. As droplets caress the parched terrain, A dance of aromas, a sweet refrain.   The sky weeps tears of liquid grace, A melody of droplets, a watery embrace. Petrichor, the fragrance of life’s face, A fleeting moment, a…

  • Big tech, bigger energy requirement

    Chase Burdick  Business and Science Editor  cxb1345@psu.edu    Bing chat, less than a year old, is one of the top three products that come to mind regarding Large Language Models, LLMs, and their Artificial Intelligence, AI, applications. While the top three tend to mirror each other with their innovations and use cases, they do not…

  • Penn State Offers Free Online Resources to Students

    Congratulations! You have won access to several online resources and programs that are normally behind paywalls, totaling hundreds of dollars’ worth of information and software. You have gained access simply by being a student at Penn State! Every student here is offered the opportunity to get these, but many do not know how to use…

  • After nearly three decades, one of the eight Happy Face Killer victims is identified

    Madison Meeks Editor-in-Chief mvm7037@psu.edu OKALOOSA, FLORIDA – Investigators have identified an eighth victim of the serial killer Keith Jesperson, who is known as ‘Happy Face’ killer who was at large in the 1990s. According to Fox News, on Tuesday, the Okaloosa sheriff’s department announced that they have identified one of the victims as 34 year…

  • Police stop man at traffic stop to find plans for mass shooting

    PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – On the evening of September 18, authorities stopped Henry Horton IV, 19, on the road for a traffic stop. What they found in his car was stated to be super disturbing.  The police had found four written threats that Horton had made in his car on the night of the traffic…

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