A peek inside recreational vehicle communities in the Bay Area
Ad hoc communities comprised of transient recreational vehicles continue to grow in the Bay Area.
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Palo Alto pickleballers volley for a win in battle over courts: A 360-degree view
The Palo Alto Pickleball Club has over 400 members, 40 percent of whom are from Palo Alto. They play every day at Mitchell Park, frequently offering free clinics for the public on the tennis courts.
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Disappearing act: California’s monarch butterflies
Once home to millions of migrating monarch butterflies, the coast of California has recently seen significant drops in monarch butterfly populations.
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Olympian and synchronized swimmer Anita Alvarez sets her sights on 2020
Anita Alvarez competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics for Team USA at 19 years old. Today, Alvarez continues to swim with the Senior National Team, which is the highest level a synchronized swimmer can reach in the U.S. Although only 22, she rates as an elder among her teenaged teammates. And now, she has her eye toward making it to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Will governor Ralph Northam’s proclamation for reconciliation be a flop?
Earlier this year, Virginia governor, Ralph S. Northam released a proclamation declaring 2019 to be the Year of Reconciliation and Civility in Virginia. But is Northam the right person to champion this motion for healing? Shortly after the proclamation, a racist photograph was discovered in Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook. He is depicted as either a Klansman or in Blackface, but the governor has yet to identify which nor confirm his involvement.
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Honoring the Legacy of Bernice Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX”
Bernice Sandler was one of the main powerhouses behind the creation and passing of the Title IX law in 1972.
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The national trend of criminalization of black school children
Stanford psychologists and sociologists dive deeper into the issues underlying a national trend of disproportionate and biased disciplinary actions against black students.
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Advertisers are spending more money on Super Bowl commercials and reaching fewer people
Advertisers who invest in ad spots during the Super Bowl are paying dramatically higher costs year over year, while the number of people they reach by the dollar is steadily decreasing.
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Twitter users bolster #ImWithKap leading up to Super Bowl LIII
The total number of tweets with the hashtag in the month leading up to game day was 1,955. On Super Bowl Sunday, there were 30,715 tweets with the hashtag.
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The numbers behind Super Bowl LIII
Some commentators are calling it the “most boring game ever.”
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Santa Clara County builds coalition to tackle climate change
When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, backpedaling on a commitment to join 195 other nations in taking on climate change, Santa Clara County launched a campaign to rebuild that commitment — one local government at a time.
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Machine learning explained: How Facebook uses it to learn more about you
Last month, tech writer Kate O’Neill sparked a debate online, with a sarcastic tweet speculating that Facebook’s “Ten Year Challenge” was really a ploy by the social media company to fuel it’s facial recognition machine learning algorithms. Her subsequent
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