Why “Florida Man” Really Isn’t All that Funny By Krista Stevens “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 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 “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 As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
Exploring The Paris Underneath Paris By Aaron Gilbreath Drawn to the culture of urban exploration, the author crawls through narrow tunnels under Paris so we don’t have to.
The Unstable Business of Higher Education By Aaron Gilbreath Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?
No One Knows Why Gunshots Are Terrorizing the Malibu Mountains By Aaron Gilbreath 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?
“Set Up For Failure”: How Iran Captured 10 US Sailors at Farsi Island By Krista Stevens “What unfolded over the next 12 hours transformed a bumbling operation into a historic fiasco.”
How College Professors Are Fighting for Their Lives By Aaron Gilbreath Adjuncts have unionized to try to negotiate a livable wage, but can their efforts defeat the college industrial complex?
All the Obstacles in a Mother’s Way By Aaron Gilbreath 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 “The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility.”
Murder in the Name of Drug Prevention By Aaron Gilbreath Filipinos are reckoning with their presidents’ violent approach to the drug trade.
Concealing a Catastrophe: ‘The Day the Music Burned’ By Krista Stevens “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 “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 “Like, wow. This is another family I have found.”
Big Problems and Big Paychecks in West Texas Oil Country By Aaron Gilbreath 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 “I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”
How One Artist Publicly Dealt With the Aftermath of Her Rape By Aaron Gilbreath For one woman, holding her employer accountable meant painting the story of her rape on a billboard above a busy LA freeway.
To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy By Aaron Gilbreath 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 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 Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.
Optimizing Meat 2.0 By Aaron Gilbreath Can Impossible Foods’ meat facsimiles save us from our carnivorous appetites?
The Ways of a Wandering Spirit By Aaron Gilbreath 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 On the delightfully nerdy role of birds and bird calls in Game of Thrones.
From the Sewer to the Syringe By Katie Kosma Biomedical researchers find remedies for antibiotic-resistant infections in grody places.
Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History? By Aaron Gilbreath Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.
‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’ By Krista Stevens “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.”
