The Eye of the Storm

By: Ezra Edelstein Have you ever wondered why certain things taste amazing and some make you sad?  Well, I haven’t either. At least, not until I realized that taste is one of those everyday experiences that feels obvious, until you actually explain it.  Taste is a surprisingly complex system built from biology, chemistry, and evolutionary strategy.  Your tongue isn't just a muscle; it's covered in thousands of taste buds, each one packed with receptors that detect five basic

By: Coby Fisher Artificial intelligence has quickly become a part of everyday life. Students use it to study, companies use it to write emails and organize information, and businesses use it to help customers. As AI improves, many people are starting to worry about what it could mean for jobs and the future of work. The concern makes sense: AI can already do tasks that once needed trained workers. It can translate languages, create pictures, summarize articles, and organize d

By: Josh Portnoy Currently, AI feels like the innovation of the century. Companies talk about it like it will change everything, and the stock market agrees. Confidence is high, and anyone who doubts it seems out of touch. However, if you dig deeper and see how this boom is being paid for, things become confusing. Big tech companies are borrowing huge amounts of money to fund AI projects. Since data centers, chips, and the power to train AI models cost a ton of money, compani

By: Gabe Rosenbluth Preface:  The information in this article about what AI can and cannot do is based on explanations and examples provided by AI systems themselves. This article is intended to explore the topic thoughtfully rather than to issue Halachic rulings. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool in many areas of life. It helps recommend movies and music, translate languages, and organize large amounts of information quickly.  Recently, some people have

By: Daniel Sorotzkin On October 21, 2025, the 2025-26 NBA season officially began. One difference between this season and most others, though, was that this season was hosting the third instance of the Emirates NBA Cup.  The NBA Cup is a multi-stage tournament consisting of a group stage and then a playoff-type elimination bracket with 3 groups consisting of 5 teams, each for each conference. Each team would play 4 group stage games. The top team from each group, as well as o

By: Eli Forman, Eli Rotenberg In 1977, Bill James, a security guard working for a pork-and-beans company, self-published The Bill James Baseball Abstract , where he introduced new statistics that fans, executives, and players had never seen before, later known as sabermetrics. Many of these stats are still used today—like Runs Created and Game Score - which measure a pitcher's performance on a 1-100 scale. Other advanced stats that fans consider when evaluating a player’s per

By: Jojo Jacobov This Saturday night, January 3rd at 7:15 PM, get ready for an electrifying showdown as TABC Storm takes on Frisch, their ultimate rival, in what promises to be a must-see matchup.  The JV Storm comes into this game with an impressive 6–2 record, and this win could be the one that clinches a playoff spot, making the stakes higher than ever. The last time these two teams faced off, fans witnessed an unbelievably close and intense battle that came down to the fi

By: Yehuda Singer Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world. However, those riches came about through luck, as they were extremely poor before they found oil.  Since making this find, Qatar has been making investments, selling the oil, and doing various other things to increase its wealth. But one thing has been on Qatar's (as well as many other Arab countries') to-do list. That is to destroy Israel.  Israel is a huge embarrassment to the Arab world, as all the Arab

By: Eli Rotenberg This question is highly debated, and the answer varies from student to student. As a result, I will not attempt to propose an answer to what is simply the best restaurant overall, but I will share my views on what each restaurant specializes in and what their best deals are.  This article will not include every restaurant, only the ones highly frequented by TABC students (or the ones that aren’t but should be). Every day, TABC students enter Schnitzel Plus,

By: Jacob Schmutter As of Friday, December 5, 2025, all countries know which group they are in for the World Cup. All countries participating in the tournament have spent years preparing for this event, with a significant part of that preparation being the draw.  The draw determines which teams compete against one another in group play, and the top two teams in each group move on to the elimination round.  Every team hopes for an easy group to increase its chances of making i