War of the Watts
Mount Holyoke student speaks on National Meningitis Association panel at Columbia University
BY GABBY RAYMOND ’20
When Sorcha McCrohan ’21 was 11, her mother Janet fell ill with a disease her doctors struggled to diagnose. Janet’s symptoms aligned with meningitis: headaches, a high fever and a stiff neck. By the time they figured it out, she had fallen into a coma and died of bacterial meningitis.
Bad habits, the brain and Mount Holyoke students
Recently-discovered comet to pass Earth in December
A traveler from another star, a comet named 2I/ Borisov, was identified this past summer by Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov. 2I/Borisov will reach the closest point to the sun in its trajectory, its perihelion, on Dec. 7. at a distance of about 180 million miles, and will be closest to Earth on Dec. 29.
Plant-based meat alternatives offered by big brands give options, stir controversy
Over the past few years, plant-based alternatives to meat have increasingly entered the mainstream. There are many reasons for this. Increased public awareness of the effects of the meat industry on the global climate is one of them, along with animal rights and health risks associated with red meat consumption.