Category: Articles
Heating Up: California Spotted Owls and Wildfire
Can large wildfire benefit spotted owls and other imperiled wildlife? An emerging science brings all manner of surprises, and a few tough questions.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s L.A. Bomb Scare
Patrick Parr This is not the life I expected to lead. But gradually you take some responsibility, then a little […]
Water is Life
Alessandra Bergamin Briana Flin It is a Saturday evening in April and Celerina Chavez is making albondigas—Mexican meatball soup. In […]
What is a River in California?
Susannah Sayler Edward Morris What is a river? This is not a question we ask every day because it seems […]
Southern California Science Fictional Thinking in Mundos Alternos
Art and Science Fiction in the Americas
Ayahuasca-naut: A Zen Student’s Experiment with Shamanic Medicine
Nick Shindo Street A hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca is having a heyday in the United States. Rolling Stone, Fusion, VICE […]
Investigating STEM: Health Equity as Touchstone for the Future
Cheryl Holzmeyer Sometime over the past decade or so, a new acronym began permeating public discourse, lumping together fields from […]
