Kat Tsvirkunova is currently a senior at Carlmont High School and this is her third year in journalism. She is the social media managing editor for Scot Scoop. In her free time, she enjoys kickboxing, listening to music, and spending time at the beach.
Kat Tsvirkunova, Social Media Managing Editor
• November 8, 2021
When that first foliage turns brown on your potted plant or when the leaves on your succulent start molding, you realize there is a problem. Having a plant die on your hands always hurts. While it may...
Content Warning: This article discusses child abuse and violence, topics that some readers may find triggering.
Zahra Mansour* was being closely observed by her mother, father, and Hasan Taleb*, her...
Bay Area residents awoke to a thick layer of wildfire smoke blanketing their cities on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 9.
The ominous orange haze resembled an apocalyptic landscape, or perhaps the...
At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on the thousands of miles of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. Working on behalf of the white settlers...
A YouTube video.
That’s all it took for Ken Armstrong to start up his chain of aquaponics farms.
Inspired by the transformation of food production described in an interview with Will Allen, a MacArthur...
Within the aquaponics system, there are three main growing techniques used to grow crops: deep water culture, nutrient film, and media-based.
Deep water culture, or raft-based growing, uses foam rafts...
The main difference between hydroponics and aquaponics is the use of fish. Since fish are the ones feeding the plants in aquaponic culture, it is important to assess which breeds tolerate the water conditions....
Aquaponics offers the opportunity to grow far more plants and help feed the world. It provides the means for crop yields to be greatly increased and the environment better controlled. An aquaponic system...
The case of Nathaniel Woods
Nathaniel Woods is a 42-year-old African-American man from Alabama. In 2004, police officers broke down his door and tackled him in his kitchen on domestic assault charges....
With mass-production businesses booming on the market these days, local artisans often struggle to find ways to showcase their talent. The Excavating Treasures festival created a stage for small businesses...
While Carlmont high schoolers were sleeping in on a Sunday morning, Tierra Linda (TL) and Mariposa middle schoolers were up and ready to run a 5K.
From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20, students...
