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.
Design-thinking trickling into elementary school classrooms Read More »
Twenty candidates ready to set upon each other — to impeach or not impeach, subpoenas, executive privilege, the line between reach and overreach.
Post-Mueller support group Read More »
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.
Sailors fight for a competitive edge in SailGP San Francisco Read More »
Attorney General William Barr has a real command of words.
The attorney general has a way with words Read More »
Michael Cohen brought it all — hush money, a porn star and endless sleaze.
Michael Cohen’s bid for redemption Read More »
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.
The difference between lawyers and journalists Read More »
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.
Why Louisiana church burnings prompted a discussion about racism in metal music Read More »
Forces are combining to let the air out of the tires of the business of journalism.
The reflexology of modern journalism Read More »
Remember Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who subbed in when Jeff Sessions was forced out as President Trump’s first Attorney General?
The Performance of the Acting Attorney General Read More »
“Femcees” are major forces within the rap industry. The term femcee to refers to black feminine-identified rappers. These rappers are no longer an “exception” to a male dominated industry, but rather the exceptional standard to Hip-Hop, and have been since its inception.
‘Shall I Proceed? Yes Indeed’: Continuing the legacy of black femmes in hip-hop Read More »
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is considering running for President in the 2020 race as an independent, centrist candidate.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s plan for presidency Read More »
As an urban beekeeper, Terry Oxford has always grounded her beekeeping practices in what is best for the bees and our environment. While her primary intention of beekeeping has never been to harvest and sell honey from her hives, she gradually realized that bringing honeybees into the city is not the best way to protect our environment and save the pollinators.
A 360 experience: One urban beekeper’s quest to go beyond the honey Read More »
