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By Chris Connelly on Dec 1 2011 - 5:04pm
Technology has done great things for medicine: Machines can help keep hearts beating and lungs breathing. Electronic medical records help doctors keep track of their patients’ treatment and prevent mistakes. But all that technology needs a lot of monitoring – and that can be frustrating for nurses...
By Nicole Jones on Nov 29 2011 - 5:13pm
The education of young people is increasingly, if not exclusively, coming from the internet. And a big part of it is from the website Wikipedia. The English-language version alone has more than three million entries. It’s consistently ranked as one of the most visited websites in the world, after...
By Hadley Robinson on Nov 14 2011 - 5:04pm
You don’t have to be outside for long to realize that here in the Bay Area, we are surrounded by wildlife. Long before houses and roads and cities popped up, wild animals reigned supreme. As we negotiate our relationship to the remaining members of that wildlife, there’s bound to be some tension....
By Dara Kerr on Aug 29 2011 - 3:42pm
Cutting your gas bill, your carbon footprint, or your waistline: these are some of the reasons to bike more. And in San Francisco, biking has increased by more than 50 percent over the past three years, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
But how about...
By Chris Connelly on Aug 24 2011 - 5:00pm
A note for our listeners: the following story has been rewritten for print
In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug users public enemy number one. Young, white, middle-class kids were openly using recreational drugs, and long-held stigmas about drug use were shrinking, especially in the Bay...
By Callie Shanafelt on Aug 16 2011 - 5:27pm
After Congress reached an agreement on the debt ceiling two weeks ago, President Obama said he and his cabinet are turning their attention back to creating jobs.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: They are redoubling their efforts to focus on what matters most to the American people. That is, how are we going...
By Natalie Jones on Jun 29 2011 - 5:01pm
Innovative ideas are often born in California. This is the home of Silicon Valley, after all. But, that spirit of innovation isn’t limited to finding more ways to plug in to the world of high tech. Innovation also means finding ways to disconnect from it all. This kind of innovation is taking place...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Jun 6 2011 - 4:34pm
Since the banking crisis of 2008, major lenders have become much more cautious about giving out loans. That’s left many people who have low or no credit in a deep financial hole. So one local group decided to re-invent an old concept—the lending circle: Members of a community deposit money into a...
By Lillian Mongeau on May 11 2011 - 5:14pm
Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for staging an after-hours sit-in at the state capitol. Teachers unions are asking lawmakers to extend taxes to support schools, and they’ve scheduled...
By Bridget Huber on May 9 2011 - 4:42pm
In California, many of the farm workers who harvest the state’s crops are undocumented. Their lack of legal status often means they don’t have health care, even though they work in hazardous conditions that put them at increased risk for pesticide exposure, skin diseases, and even diabetes. So...
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