As the global pandemic continues to define the new normal of staying at home and working in bed with your most comfy pajamas, tens of thousands of people have been turning to online chess as their “sporting escape.” Online chess streams have been one of the most influential in terms of bringing in more people into the game. For example, U.S. Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has taken over the Twitch chess community, where he hosts streams that feature thrilling fast-paced chess along with his engaging commentary. Similarly, Magnus Carlsen, the current world chess champion uses Youtube to stream his games which have drawn thousands of people into watching his videos and eventually learning to play the game themselves. 

Vermicelli pulao is one of the easiest and tasty recipes. It requires some time to prepare and is best eaten on any day. There are a few other vermicelli recipes that create excellent tiffin products for youngsters, and I attempt to think outside the box every time specially for weekends lunch.  Nevertheless, some few vermicelli recipes, such as vermicelli Pulao, would always be my favorites. The method is very similar to that of making a carrot pulao or any kind of vegetable pulao, as just rice is replaced with fried roasted vermicelli.  Olive oil, ghee or  butter is used in the heat treatment process, alongside fresh curry and mint leaves and spices such as cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, and fennel seeds, to offer the vermicelli pulao an enticing aroma and flavor.

Detweiler and Castaneda graduating marks the end of an entire generation of amazing TechNews writers before us. All of the late greats that introduced me to the organization — Spicknall, Castro, Zorn — are already gone, now with Detweiler and Castaneda joining them, too. 

As the end of April (Sexual Assault Awareness Month) approaches, I felt it was important to share something that I hope can serve as a resource for students who have experienced sexual violence.

This article serves as a brief introduction of each individual taking up a position on the board. 

Stellar engines are a conceptual class of observatories that use a star's emission to generate useful energy. Cathcart and  Badescu were the first to propose the idea.  Some variations have been using this power to generate momentum, accelerating a star and anything orbiting it in a specific direction.  The design of such a structure will result in the architects being classified as a Type-II community on the Kardashev level.

On Wednesday, April 23, 2021 at 9:30 p.m. CST, the Illinois Tech Student Government Association (SGA) held their weekly Senate meeting. SGA Executive Vice President Keru Omad led the session. This was the first Senate meeting under the newly elected SGA executive board for 2020-21. For a recording of the meeting, go to https://bit.ly/32GuzBO.

The Emu War, also regarded as the Greatest Emu War, was a disturbance nature wildlife control military campaign conducted in Australia in the late 1932 to counter public outrage about the volume of emus said to have been wreaking havoc in Western Australia's Campion region. The failed ability to influence the community of emus, a huge wingless bird native to Australia, used armies armed with Stewart guns, prompting the press to relate to the event as the "Emu War." Even though many of the species were destroyed, the emu population thrived and proceeded to destroy crops.

In a Tweet authored on February 3, Kannan stated that “Yesterday was my last day at Google. I left because Google's mistreatment of [Gebru] and [Curley] crossed a personal red line I wrote down when I started the job. I know I gained a lot from Google, but I also gained a lot from both of their work, and they were wronged.” David Baker, a company director, also resigned over these dismissals. 

Medical paternalism is an approach where the physician makes decisions in a medical situation by overriding the patient's decision.