Modern love
Nothing will improve romantic relationships like adding a few business buzz words.
Modern privacy
Who would have imagined that as full-grown adults we would take our most intimate secrets and share them without caution with every tech giant who offered us a “free” app on the Internet?
A drug 50 times deadlier than heroin finds its way to California
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. Now, it is the most commonly used drug in overdoses: about 30 percent of overdoses in 2016 involved fentanyl. In 2016, the rate of overdoses involving fentanyl was 12 times larger than it was in 2013.
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Design-thinking trickling into elementary school classrooms
At Phillips Brooks Elementary School in Menlo Park, students arrange spaghetti, string and marshmallows to concoct freestanding towers, following the same design-thinking process as Stanford University undergraduates.
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Post-Mueller support group
Twenty candidates ready to set upon each other — to impeach or not impeach, subpoenas, executive privilege, the line between reach and overreach.
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Sailors fight for a competitive edge in SailGP San Francisco
The new SailGP racing series, taking place in San Francisco Bay this weekend, is on a mission to make races more competitive — by ensuring that all participating boats are identical and teams have to share performance data.
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The attorney general has a way with words
Attorney General William Barr has a real command of words.
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Michael Cohen’s bid for redemption
Michael Cohen brought it all — hush money, a porn star and endless sleaze.
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The difference between lawyers and journalists
Lawyering and journalism are different. One is about advocacy, where the search for facts is designed to find support for a narrative in the client’s interest.
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Why Louisiana church burnings prompted a discussion about racism in metal music
Authorities highlighted an arson suspect’s association with a music sub-genre known as “black metal” as a possible motive for allegedly burning down three historically black churches in Louisiana. Some on social media felt that the conversation should have been about racism, not music. But others pointed out that black metal has a history of association with nationalism and white supremacy.
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The reflexology of modern journalism
Forces are combining to let the air out of the tires of the business of journalism.
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The Performance of the Acting Attorney General
Remember Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who subbed in when Jeff Sessions was forced out as President Trump’s first Attorney General?
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