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Bikes Stolen In the Bay Area Show Up On Global Blackmarket
Hundreds of bicycles stolen in the Bay Area and other places have ended up for sale in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico. A recent article in Wired fol…
1 year, 8 months ago
Neuroscientist Rahul Jandial Explains Why We Dream
Despite spending one third of our lives asleep, we know very little about why we dream. But in a new book brain surgeon and neuroscientist Dr. Rahul …
1 year, 9 months ago
Annalee Newitz on How Stories are Weaponized
As a journalist and a science fiction writer, Annalee Newitz thinks a lot about the power of narrative and how it can change minds, “if a story can m…
1 year, 9 months ago
Grace Jung’s ‘K-Drama School’ Unpacks a Pop Culture Phenomenon
“Squid Game.” “Crashing Landing on You.” “Winter Sonata.” Korean dramas have injected themselves into American pop culture thanks to their addictive …
1 year, 9 months ago
Slow Burn Podcast Excavates Bay Area LGBTQ History with ‘Gays Against Briggs’
Forty six years ago, California held its first statewide vote on gay rights. Prop 6, also known as the Briggs Initiative, sought to ban gay teachers …
1 year, 9 months ago
Music Critic Ann Powers on ‘Traveling’ on Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell’s Path
When Ann Powers began to draft her expansive new biography of Laurel Canyon music legend Joni Mitchell, she says that “certain subjects emerged: chil…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Global Battle to Control Food and Water Chronicled in Documentary ‘The Grab’
Every historical era is marked by the fight for a commodity: spices, gold, oil, steel, to name a few. In the next decades as climate change deepens a…
1 year, 9 months ago
National Academies Push for New Definition of Long COVID
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on Tuesday called on the medical community to adopt a new, universal definition of Long C…
1 year, 9 months ago
‘Father Time’ Explores How Parenthood Alters Men’s Brains and Bodies
In her new book, “Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies,” primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy rebuffs the idea that men don’t develop a dad i…
1 year, 9 months ago
R.O. Kwon Mines Complexity of Desire, Both Romantic and Creative, in ‘Exhibit’
In her new novel “Exhibit” R.O. Kwon introduces us to Jin Han, a photographer in San Francisco who’s unsure if her transgressive infatuation for a ba…
1 year, 9 months ago