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Chronic Absenteeism Plagues Bay Area Schools
Last year, nearly a quarter of public school students in California were considered “chronically absent” – more than double what it was before the pandemic. Factors such as parent work schedules, pov…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Journalist Amy Yee on the ‘Travels Among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents’
Since China’s annexation of Tibet in the 1950s, more than 100,000 Tibetans have fled the mountainous region, known as the rooftop of the world. Most of those refugees live with the Dalai Lama in Dhar…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Seeking Fellowship without Religion
More than 25% of Americans identify as having no religious affiliation and that number is on the rise according to Pew Research. While atheists –also called freethinkers, humanists or secularists –ar…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
How 'The Year of Ozempic' Transformed Obesity Treatment… and Much More
In a recent piece for the New Yorker called “The Year of Ozempic,” journalist and physician Dhruv Khullar writes that “we may look back on new weight-loss drugs as some of the greatest advances in th…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Historic PG&E Rate Increases Will Hit Hard in 2024
Before you open your next electricity bill, you might want to brace yourself. PG&E is hiking their rates starting this month, and this one is historic. Bills for the average household are expected to…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Manjula Martin’s ‘The Last Fire Season’ Reflects on Living with Wildfire
When Manjula Martin fled her West Sonoma home in the summer of 2020 with wildfire raging around her, she realized her go bag was packed for an apocalypse, not a sleepover. She had flashlights, but no…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
All You Can Eat: Best Dishes of the Year
Every year KQED food editor Luke Tsai publishes a list of his favorite dishes that he tried that year, in part to inspire the rest of us to up our culinary game. In 2023, his list included Korean-sty…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
How to Reclaim Our Relationship with Time
Time flies. Time is money. Time waits for no one. There is no shortage of aphorisms about time because we are consumed by the minutes, hours, days and years that constitute a life. We want to use tim…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
What's Hidden Inside Planets?
“Our experience as humans make it challenging to grasp the conditions that occur inside the planet,” writes scientist Dr. Sabine Stanley. “There’s just nothing like it in our everyday experience.” St…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Tracy K. Smith Mines History and Memory to Find 'Soul-Family'
“I am searching for the soul-family from whom I descend.” That’s how former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith describes the impulse animating her latest book “To Free the Captives,” a chronicle of he…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago