The Symbiotics of Harvesting Eider Down By Krista Stevens Highlight “There is an irresistible simplicity to the relationship between the harvesters and the eiders.”
Companion Fair? By Krista Stevens Highlight “That’s what Dad’s AAirpass and ultra-elite flying status yielded for him: lifelong bonds.”
Why “Florida Man” Really Isn’t All that Funny By Krista Stevens Highlight “Is Florida Man a hero, a villain or a victim? And is it still okay to laugh along?” (No, it’s not.)
Can Coastal California Adapt to Climate Change? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rising sea levels and aggressive erosion could prove to be the greatest crisis modern Californians will ever face.
Protecting the Unicorns Beneath the Sea: The Secret Seahorse Colony of Long Beach By Krista Stevens Highlight “And if you’ve never seen a seahorse in the wild before, you will feel honored and awed, as if you’ve just seen a unicorn beneath the sea.”
How To Embrace Professional Decline By Carolyn Wells Highlight As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
The Unstable Business of Higher Education By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?
No One Knows Why Gunshots Are Terrorizing the Malibu Mountains By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dead bodies, shots fired at passing cars, rumors of a survivalist carrying a rifle — what is happening around Malibu Creek State Park, and did police capture the right suspect?
How to Catch a Cyber Sextortionist By Krista Stevens Highlight “Staying quiet seemed a reasonable choice.”
“Set Up For Failure”: How Iran Captured 10 US Sailors at Farsi Island By Krista Stevens Highlight “What unfolded over the next 12 hours transformed a bumbling operation into a historic fiasco.”
All the Obstacles in a Mother’s Way By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Everyone has something to say about this mother’s body, career, and parental choices.
MH370 Five Years Later: Will We Ever Know What Happened? By Krista Stevens Highlight “The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility.”
Concealing a Catastrophe: ‘The Day the Music Burned’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “The vault fire was not, as UMG suggested, a minor mishap, a matter of a few tapes stuck in a musty warehouse. It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business.”
Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid for $195 a Packet? Oh Yeah! By Krista Stevens Highlight “Kool-Ade” debuted in 1927 and has remained popular for over 90 years.
Sing a Song of Hope: ‘Everything will be all right’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “Like, wow. This is another family I have found.”
Big Problems and Big Paychecks in West Texas Oil Country By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight As the current oil boom attests. West Texas’ oil deposits come with high social and environmental costs.
‘What if people found out?’ On the White Male Suicide Epidemic By Krista Stevens Highlight “I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”
To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.
No Surgery Can Fix a Self-Defeating World View By Krista Stevens Highlight Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.
The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed By Krista Stevens Highlight Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.
The Ways of a Wandering Spirit By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.
‘Someone Took Care to Get it Right’: The Birds of the Seven Kingdoms By Krista Stevens Highlight On the delightfully nerdy role of birds and bird calls in Game of Thrones.
From the Sewer to the Syringe By Katie Kosma Highlight Biomedical researchers find remedies for antibiotic-resistant infections in grody places.
‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”
Take Two Stem Cell Injections and Don’t Call Me Until After I Cash Your $10,000 Cheque By Krista Stevens Highlight What don’t these stem cell snake-oil salespeople have? Any science to prove their claims or any scruples about preying on the vulnerable.
The Vital and Surprising Role of Driftwood By Krista Stevens Highlight Driftwood provides the necessary habitat and shelter that feeds a raft of marine life all the way up the food chain.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Sam Sayers By Krista Stevens Highlight They’ve spent 8,000 hours searching for Sam Sayers.
A Mountain and a Range of Memories By Krista Stevens Highlight “After Lathrop died, I could not bring myself to delete his phone number.”
