Look into the future and imagine you are thirty-seven years old. What are you doing? Working at your dream job? Making history? Leading a country? That’s exactly what the newly elected Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, is doing right now. Ms. Ardern became the youngest Prime Minister New Zealand has had in over 150 years, sweeping the nation with what some are calling “Jacindamania.” New Zealand’s Elections To win a New Zealand election, a political party must win at least 61 seats in the New Zealand Parliament. The two main parties currently represented in Parliament are the...

When you were a child, chances are you played with Lego, small brick-shaped toys that could be stuck together to form anything you could imagine! You might have built boats, tanks, airplanes, or houses. But, could you imagine building a full sized house completely out of Legos? The city of Billund, Denmark did just that in late September of this year. The 130,00 square foot building is made entirely from Lego, from the floor, to the bathrooms, to the “tree of creativity,” the 6.3-million brick centerpiece. The house itself is split up into three zones: blue, green, and yellow, with each zone...

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, blast-off! These words rang in the air sixty years ago on October 4, 1957, as the Soviet Union (known as Russia today) launched the world’s first artificial satellite. Hours later, as it began its orbit, the notorious beeping sounds began. These beeps were the satellite transmitting to Earth for the first time ever. The satellite’s name was Sputnik and its launch was an unpleasant surprise to the United States. It made it seem like the United States was far behind in the realm of technology and space exploration. The Space Race This...