“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” –Abraham Lincoln

Earth has worn many faces: The Devonian Period’s...

Cystic fibrosis, probably best known to us as the illness that appears in the movie and book “Five Feet Apart,” is a disease that...

In the fall, two cherished holidays roll around: Halloween and Thanksgiving. Friends and families gather together to celebrate...

When seasons change, temperature changes as well. Changing temperatures provides ideal conditions for the pathogens, environmental...

An exciting vacation on the world’s biggest ship is on every family’s bucket list, but revealing the horrifying reality of the...

On October 2nd, Oregon State University published an article that showed a severe loss of maternal DNA lineages among blue, fin...

Humans have been interested in the notion of immortality since the beginning. While modern technology is making an effort to slow...

On October 4th 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, worked with the Federal Communications Commission, or the...

On October 14th, 2023, a rare occurrence of a “ring of fire” solar eclipse took place in the Americas. Although this event occurred...

In Spring of 2019, a thirty-two page document titled “Concord Academy Sustainability Plan; Spring 2019” was introduced to the...

On September 12, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) unveiled its updated recommendation for the COVID vaccine which was newly approved...

A part of the thirty-two mile long Sudbury River lies just north of Concord Academy’s campus. The river is known for being contaminated with mercury...

By the time school was nearing the end last year, Biology might have been my favorite class. I liked the material, my classmates, and my teacher...

On April 19, 2023, users of the popular social media and messaging platform, Snapchat, opened the app to find a new friend on their Chat feed. Officially called “My AI,” Snapchat’s experimental feature allows users to message...

As warmer weather approaches in the Northeast, so too does the return of the dreaded spotted lanternflies. The planthopper insects are an invasive species native to East Asia that pose a serious threat to the health of Americ...

In the next two years, Concord Academy will carry out its vision for West Campus, constituting the most ambitious capital project ever pursued by the school. The plan mainly seeks to meet the needs of the performing arts curr...

For the first Community Weekend of 2023, the Sustainability Committee alongside the Environmental Coheads took to the weekend’s activities with a green lens, as it coincided with Earth Day. All of the activities offered for s...

Around this time of year, every rainstorm is followed by the claim that “April showers bring M...

On Saturday, April 22, Concord Academy’s Gender Representation in Tech organization, more comm...

It is allergy season again here in Concord, Massachusetts! Despite a variety of common allerge...

There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has positively impacted the world, from allowing for earlier detection of diseases to helping scientists improve climate decision-making and better understand the effects ...

It has been a largely snowless winter in the Boston area, with no snow days at all as of early February. There have, however, been a few close calls, which might bring up the question of how snow days are actually determined ...

On Friday, January 27, Concord Academy received a visit from Kevin Koch P’24. Koch is the Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Technicians For Sustainability, an employee-owned benefit corporation that promotes and installs solar PV pa...

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Having started earlier this winter, Meatless Mondays are now a new tradition at Concord Academ...

For the past several years, people have been asking themselves this: are our winters here in Concord really becoming more mild? Temperatures have risen overall and started having more, longer spikes in the middle of winter. S...

Since late December, rainfall in California has been abundant. Round after round of heavy rain and mountain snow has slammed the pacific coast of the state. Some places have received up to 40 inches of rain or over 10 feet of...

For thousands of years, civilizations across the world have turned up towards the night sky, spellbound by the forever-twinkling stars. This upcoming month, a new visitor will be temporarily sharing this incredible night sky—...

On January 9, the United Kingdom’s (UK) attempt at launching a rocket to space ultimately fell...

As part of Concord Academy’s Sustainability Plan, adopted in the fall of 2019, the school recently purchased two plug-in hybrid vans. The purchase was spearheaded by Director of Campus Planning, Design, and Construction Don K...

Environmental Symposium, taught by Gretchen Roorbach, is a one-credit fall science elective that invites three professional environmental scientists and activists to lecture on their work. Throughout the semester, Environment...

“We rise together back to the moon and beyond!” a NASA commentator exclaimed to more than three hundred thousand viewers worldwide at 1:47 a.m. EST on November 16. Together they watched as NASA’s new moon rocket lifted off la...

On October 28, Elon Musk officially acquired Twitter for approximately 44 billion dollars. Musk had first proposed to buy the site in April, but resistance from the Twitter board of trustees ultimately delayed the deal by sev...

With winter break looming and December in full swing, the purple and orange ribbons of Halloween have come down to be replaced by wreaths and mistletoe. It would seem that Halloween decorations are only the prelude to what li...

What makes a class special can vary. Sometimes it is a teacher, sometimes the material. In Advanced Chemistry: Organic Structure and Function, taught by Science teacher Will Tucker, it is certainly a balance of the two.

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Protecting Earth from an asteroid strike is common in science fiction, but it is also a concern for real scientists.  On September 26, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crashed a spaceship into an ...

Hurricane season is in full force, and one of the strongest storms so far was Hurricane Ian. This Category Four tropical storm initially made landfall on September 27 in Pinar de Rico, Cuba. It also impacted the Artemisa, May...

This year, there is a new student organization at Concord Academy: STEM Council. One of the first things this group is planning to establish is a STEM peer buddy system. This project will pair underclassmen interested in STEM...

On Saturday, September 10, some Concord Academy students went apple picking at Honey Pot Hill Orchard. There, they could pick seven kinds of apples: McIntosh, Sansa, Akane, Honeycrisp, Smitten, Ginger Gold, and Gravenstein. T...

The website previously used by many Concord Academy students to access student resources, CA Connect, has been taken down and replaced with a tab on the main CA website.  CA Connect had links to Schoology, Gmail, and oth...

Fall at Concord Academy means new textbooks, frantic rushing to get to class across the Quad, the start of sports, cramming into the Chapel, Club Expo, and Family Weekend. This year, it also means wasps. From eating outside t...

As the summer comes to an end, many crops are ready to harvest in the northeastern United States. While many fruits ripen through the summer, a few wait until the fall begins. These include raspberries, grapes, and apples. Ra...

Over the years, a perfectly cut, lush-green, grassy lawn has become synonymous with the  American Dream and sprawling suburbia. Many lawns in New England can be seen sporting this rather sought-after look. Hving a perfec...

Concord Academy is lucky to have a variety of beautiful flowering trees on campus. Most trees only bloom for one to two weeks maximum, so make sure to appreciate them before they drop their flowers!

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In the spring of 2019, Concord Academy unveiled an ambitious series of institution-wide academic and operational goals in the form of the Concord Academy Sustainability Plan. The 32-page report explicitly detailed the sustain...

On April 26, 2022, entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk struck a deal with the board of Twitter to acquire the company for approximately $44 billion. In the statement announcing the deal, Musk stressed his intention to pres...

Roughly ten years ago, the dean of faculty of Concord Academy asked Mathematics Department faculty Mark Engerman to teach a new math elective on economics. Up until this current school year, Engerman has taught the ensuing co...

Since March 23, the Stu-Fac has been home to three brand-new artificial gardens which can be seen in the wall separating the freshman pit and the faculty tables. They have thus far been a modest yet intriguing addition to CA’...

Concord Academy’s Mathematics Department offers a variety of courses for students of different interests and backgrounds. To ensure equity, the department provides options for both advanced or introductory and passionate or i...

Mobile Apps for History is a two-credit computer science course that is available exclusively in the second semester of Concord Academy’s centennial year. Its students range from freshmen to seniors, all of whom have complete...

Many students have just gone through tech week for the winter mainstage, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and many more are watching major assessments beginning to rear their heads after three blissf...

Social media apps are some of the most frequently opened applications by smartphone users, globally. In fact, billions of people download TikTok and various Meta apps each year. These apps are often used to fill free time, an...

Any citizen of Concord, or Massachusetts for that matter, knows how treacherous the conditions are in winter. As a veteran of the Massachusetts winter experience, I have picked up a few tips that may aid you on your journey o...

Since January 1, 2022, mobile payment apps like Venmo, Paypal, and Cashapp required users to file a 1099-K form that is used to report business transactions. This change to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax-reporting rule...

As February continues to plunge Concord into a frigid winter, snow is not the only thing you will see lining the streets. The sight of crunchy, white snow is often accompanied by the light-blue tint of sodium chloride, more c...

For most people, snowfall forecasts are simple—your weather app tells you how much snow is going to fall and when, and the school decides whether or not to close because of it. However, behind that forecast are weeks of patte...

Our collective attention remains riveted on the intensifying cyberwar between battling Instagram accounts Bananas of Concord and Apples of Concord. Both accounts have racked up some serious number of followe...

Omicron, the most recent mutation of COVID-19, has created another surge in cases worldwide. This new variant is more transmissible than previous strains but appears to cause a less severe illness in most people, especially t...

Wen Stephenson, a climate journalist and essayist, was CA’s second Environmental Symposium speaker of the year. Formerly an editor for the Atlantic and the Boston Globe and writer for the New York Times<...

From October 31, 2021through November 12, 2021, The United States joined almost 22 other countries in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th annual United Nations Conference of Parties in Glasgow, or COP26. COP26 served as an opportu...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the multinational technology conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, announced on October 28 that the company would be renamed Meta. For nearly two decades, Facebook has been the clear figurehead of t...

Tick, tock, tick, tock … You lift your head up and stare at the massive digital clock as its minute digit approaches the time limit. Using their loudest indoor voice, your proctor breaks the silence by declaring a fi...

TikTok has just recently overtaken YouTube in total hours of user watch time per month in the United States. 

Between August 2020 and June 2021, TikTok users have watc...

On Wednesday, October 21, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) approved a third booster dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. People who received their secon...

The cold winter months are approaching quickly, and flu season is just around the corner. With increased time spent indoors and less vitamin D available to strengthen one’s immune system, common colds should be similarly inev...

On Monday, October 23, Tatiana Schlossberg spoke in front of Concord Academy’s Environmental Symposium class to share her research in her recent book, Inconspicuous Consumption, on climate change, environmental justi...

When asked for his tips on how to study for math and science courses, Concord Academy senior Nuowen Lei ’22 responded, “Do your homework,” truly an innovative and radical idea. Jokes aside, if one indeed elects to do so, the ...

Every summer, rising seniors at Concord Academy have the opportunity to apply to the Interested Students Pursuing Internship Research Experiences (InSPIRE) program. The program matches students to research mentors in the Grea...

Students at Concord Academy are noticing a significant increase in mosquitoes around campus. Grace Guo ’25 said, “Mosquitoes swallowed me this summer.” In addition to the number of mosquito bites, people worry about the sever...

We all know the feeling: Late on a weekday evening, you are hunched over your desk, fingers furiously clacking across a keyboard in a desperate bid to finish your homework. As you cram mathematical formulas and German vocabul...

Environmental Symposium is a one-semester, one-credit, intro-level course that meets four times a semester at Concord Academy. These four meetings are composed of three lectures by guest speakers and one pre-lecture meeting f...

As COVID-19 reaches its fourth significant spike since March 2020, many vaccinated people are wondering what their next step may be. For many, some of the worries clogging their minds are questions about a possible third boos...

The Delta variant of COVID-19 raises new questions and concerns for the Concord Academy community as we enter the 2021–2022 school year.  Although last year, school ended with suspending indoor mask mandates, the new Del...

Technology has become more critical than ever. Comprehending Concord Academy’s many essential online elements is key to a smooth and well-organized school experience.

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Concord Academy’s Science Department has decided to shift their advanced science electives from year courses to semester ones. The department initiated this change with the hope to reflect the nature of CA’s program for upper...

Throughout the pandemic, many have observed a significant reduction in the number of individuals traveling. Whether it be opting to drive instead of flying or choosing to eliminate travel from one’s annual routine, many commu...

On January 7, 2020, the first known case of COVID-19 in India appeared. Now, the country is home to over twenty-three million cases, second in the world to the United States, and the suffering is immense due to shortages of v...

By the first week of June this year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will be close to reaching its vaccination goal of 4.1 million residents, and as all COVID-19 guidelines expire on May 29, Concord Academy is in a unique p...

As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic improve in many places, the question of herd immunity has become relevant once again. Herd immunity is reached when a sufficiently large portion of a population is immune to a contagiou...

As the automotive industry enters a new decade full of rapid advancements, it is only a matter of time before self-driving vehicles fill public streets in the U.S., the town of Concord, and Concord Academy itself. Large compa...

As Concord Academy continues to welcome back a majority of its students to fully in-person learning, more and more faculty, staff, and students are getting vaccinated against COVID-19. 

How has COVID testing helped control the spread of the virus at Concord Academy? What is the protocol for positive and inconclusive tests? Do community members still need to be tested weekly if they have been vaccinated? Stud...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, mutated versions of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, have been occurring across the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Viruses constantly ...

During lunch on Friday, February 19th, Concord Academy’s Science Club and Medical Club invited Dr. Timothy Liesching to speak to the community about COVID-19 and its impact on the healthcare system. 

The air is frigid; snow is caked onto the sidewalk; the sun still retreats below the horizon before 5:00 PM. Winter is in full swing, and, for many, this seasonal change brings about a significant decrease in mental wellbeing...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many have hoped that a silver lining of worldwide lockdowns will be a significant decrease in pollution. This has proved to be the case, as the Rhodium Group reported in early January this ye...

Not too long ago, I stumbled across an article that caught my interest. This eye-catching article in Psychology Today claimed, ““men’s friendships tend to be more “instrumental” and less emotional, as well as “less i...

When scientists began the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine in early 2020, they warned us not to get our hopes up. Vaccine development is a notoriously long process, taking years before they may or may not make the cut. Before thi...

Recently, many companies around the world have announced their vaccines aimed to target and hopefully quell the COVID-19 pandemic. Of these, one particular type of vaccine has garnered some attention: mRNA vaccines.

Just as vaccines began to offer hope for the end of the pandemic, Britain raised a sudden alarm about a highly contagious new variant of coronavirus, called B117, circulating in England. South Africa has also reported a new v...

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a novel challenge for laboratories all over the world. Laboratory work in general requires many precautions, and with COVID-19, these precautions have been heightened. Just as anywhere else, di...

Tesla, Inc., the American electric automaker with the 49-year-old chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk behind the wheel, is nothing short of impressive. The year 2020, one for history books, was quite a challenge for many ...

At the time of writing, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. has reached 21.1 million, with more than 357,000 resulting deaths. Vaccines, a long term strategy, are crucial to stop the pandemic. Currently, two COVID-...

Early on the morning on December 5th, a Nor’easter, dubbed by the Weather Channel as “Winter Storm Eartha”, left hundreds of thousands of civilians across the northeast without power, according to

With the onset of CA’s STAC 2 pilot program, the Stu-Fac resumed in-person operations. New restrictions and guidelines regarding dining were implemented due to the ongoing pandemic, and in response to those drastic changes, t...

Halloween looked vastly different this year, with safety measures taken all over the country to prevent the spread of the deadly virus COVID-19. The CDC had advised trick-or-treaters to avoid direct contact with others, stay ...

As schools and businesses continue to reopen, coronavirus cases are rising again in Massachusetts. As of November 7, the New York Times reports a seven-day average of 1,571 new confirmed cases per day in Massachusetts, with M...

I began looking into the future of the COVID-19 vaccine(s) two months ago, around when I gave a Centipede report on the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility. Welcome to Part 2: the Ever-Turbulent United St...

With the winter season nearing, it is almost that time of the year when students get excited about the possibility of school being canceled. However, this year’s outlook for snow is bleak. The National Oceanic and Atmosph...

2020 is a year of change. From a piece of cloth on everyone’s face to the shut doors of theatres and malls, everything is rendered anew. As classes start in-person in the second term of Short Terms at Concord (STAC), the comm...