Tech and AI
This term refers to the use of AI to generate realistic-looking fake images, videos or audio.
What is deepfake?
This proposed federal initiative, outlined by the conservative Heritage Foundation, aims to reshame the US government by consolidating executive power and dismantling some agencies.
What is Project 2025?
What is mental health, anxiety or depression?
In 2025, this rare new species of this massive aquatic animal with a 15-20 foot wingspan was identified in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a manta ray?
This highly anticipate video game is expected to be one of the biggest entertainment releases of 2025.
What is Grand Theft Auto 6?
This popular app has faced potential bans in the US due to national security concerns.
What is Tik Tok?
This term describes the increasing divide between political parties, which has led to a record low percentage of Americans identifying as politically moderate in 2025.
What is political polarization?
This term refers to the practice of harassing, threatening or embarassing someone via the internet, often using social media platforms.
What is cyberbullying?
This natural wonder, located off the coast of Australia, has recently suffered its worst-ever recorded bleaching event.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This popular book series will have a prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, released in 2025 and is being adapted into a movie.
What is The Hunger Games?
This technology, being developed by companies like Apple and Google, allows users to interact with a virtual world superimposed over the real world.
What is augmented reality?
A recent Harvard Youth Poll revealed that support for new tariffs on foreign goods is a politcally divided issue because of this.
What is tariffs increase the cost of imported goods which contributes to economic concerns?
The specific name or phenomenon where teens feel pressure to purchase expensive items, like high ended fragrances, to fit in.
What is smellmaxxing?
A major medical journal recently issued a warning about this crisis, which is polluting oceans, rivers, and land and costing governments trillions of dollars.
What is plastics crisis?
This trend has seen a resurgence in popularity, featuring an 80's aesthetic with exaggerated silouhettes, and is often tied to Americana styles.
What is vintage fashion?
The recent educational trend involves using AI to create personalized learning plans and offer instant tutoring, but it raises questions about academic integrity.
What is AI-driven personlized learning?
This specific political movement has gained momentum worldwide in 2025, fueled by economic challenges, geopolitical instability and a growing public dissatisfaction with traditional political systems.
What is populism? or What is the rise of far-right movements?
This trend in education, where some high schools are moving to later start times, is backed by pediatricians and is intended for students to get more of this.
What is sleep?
This weather phenomenon has led to wildfires across southern Europe and is linked to a prolonged drought and extended heatwave.
What is climate change?
The name of the new fantasy series by Suzanne Collins (the author of The Hunger Games) is set to be released in 2025.
What is Sunrise on the Reaping?
The name of the new US-EU trade framework, announced in 2025, which aims to regulate the use of AI.
What is the US-EU Framework?
This is the term for the deliberate spreading of false or misleading information.
What is disinformation?
A recent UNICEF report highlighted this as a major global issue, with millions of children now living in areas affected by conflict, which is at the highest number since WWII.
What is conflict? or What is war?
This Russian volcano, which last erupted in 1550, blew its top in 2025 after a recent earthquake.
What is the Krasheninnikov volcano?
This popular social media trend involves using a catchall term for low-quality, low-effort online content.
What is "brainrot?"