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Best Bay Area Music of 2025 With Special Live in Studio Performances
We’ll look back at KQED’s Best Bay Area Albums of 2025 with our music writers. This year’s list of favorites includes local musicians putting out ori…
3 months ago
What’s Behind President Trump’s Aesthetic?
The White House says it’s submitting plans this month for its 90,000 square-foot gold-studded ballroom which will be bigger than the White House whil…
3 months ago
Fatal UCSF Stabbing Heightens Concerns About Health Worker Safety
The killing of Alberto Rangel, a 51-year-old social worker at San Francisco General Hospital, has left colleagues grieving and questioning whether hi…
3 months ago
Calls Escalate for Release of Caribbean Boat Strike Video
Lawmakers are demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth release video of the September strike that killed two survivors of a U.S. attack on their…
3 months, 1 week ago
How NIH Funding Cuts Are Slowing the Search for Cures
The National Institutes of Health have historically funded scientists to find cures for diseases and protect public health. NIH funding has led to th…
3 months, 1 week ago
Investigation: Lax State Oversight Endangers California’s Child Farmworkers
Children as young as 12 can legally work on California’s farms, picking strawberries and pruning blueberry bushes along with a host of other physical…
3 months, 1 week ago
Mobile Homes Provide Affordable Housing, But Their Future Is at Risk
In California, mobile homes make up to 6% of the state’s housing stock. With as many as 300,000 homes in 5,000 mobile home parks in the state, they p…
3 months, 1 week ago
Would You Erase a Painful Memory, if You Could?
In groundbreaking experiments with mice, Boston University neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has succeeded in turning memories on and off, even implanting…
3 months, 1 week ago
How Private Soundtracks Are Changing Public Life: The New Normal of Constant Headphone Use
On the bus and in the grocery store line, more and more people are keeping their AirPods in. While we work, while we walk, while we shower, even whil…
3 months, 1 week ago
Patricia Lockwood on How Illness Can Give You ‘Another You’
When writer Patricia Lockwood fell ill with Covid in March 2020, she says she felt insane for months, experiencing “Brian fog” (not brain fog) and w…
3 months, 1 week ago