Mihir Singhal doesn't know what genius means. He doesn’t know its definition, and he doesn’t know if it means anything to be one. Yet Singhal is, by each and ev...
When Gabby Bernas transitions from one squat rack to another, or switches from the free weights to the bench press in the Palo Alto High School weight room, she...
In the Caucasus country of Georgia, food and wine are vital to national identity. It’s not too difficult to understand why — the country is nestled at the cross...
The 129th Rescue Wing has a motto: Always ready, always there. Because that’s what they do — whenever the unit gets a call from the critically sick, injured or ...
Pumpkins and Halloween candy may have made way for twinkling Christmas lights, but it will take much more than a change of scenery to curb any candy-craving swe...
Former U.S. ambassadors to Afghanistan and Russia under the Obama administration visited Paly U.S. Foreign Policy classes in October to speak about developments...
Hype that doesn’t die down a year after a restaurant opens is some real hype, indeed. At Din Tai Fung, where there are still the same two-hour wait-times, the s...
Daniel Naroditsky would take an F on any kind of test, 100 times over and then some, if it meant he could undo a single blunder in a game of chess. That’s becau...
Editor's note: Resources for any person who is feeling depressed, troubled or suicidal are listed at the bottom of this article.
On the day before a wrestlin...
If you’re anything like me, then you’ve learned to resist the itch of human instinct to turn around whenever someone yells your name from behind. Because “Ashle...
Ashley Wang (Class of 2019) is the co-culture editor of Verde Magazine. Outside of writing for Verde, Wang keeps busy with wrestling, cooking with her family, and playing online blitz chess. She is likely Magnus Carlsen's biggest fan.