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Jul 23, 2020
Pandemic forces a radical re-imagining of theater
Way back in the mid-1970s, when pop star Billy Joel was compelled to write a song about the approaching collapse of the American empire,...
Sep 4, 2019
UCSC Microbe Machines
The Bay Area has a recycling problem. It’s true that cities from San Rafael to San Jose have residential recycling services and public trash...
Sep 4, 2019
A Guide To ‘Dying Well’
The inevitability of death has always been a source of dread and anxiety, across all ages and human societies. But the modern age has...
Jul 3, 2019
Seeing Is Believing
The future of misinformation is here. It reared its ugly head in May in the form of a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy...
May 9, 2018
Feature: Close-Up
In the roughly 34 years since Donald Trump assumed the presidency—that’s Emotional Standard Time; chronologically, it’s been less than two years—it’s easy to forget...
Apr 11, 2018
Arts: Resistance State
The citizens of California seem to have a talent for pioneering one regrettable socio-political phenomenon after another, years before the country as a whole...