SCIENCE
STORIES
A
Scanner, Smartly
Researchers are learning how to "read" your visual cortex
July, 2008, California
Seeing
is Believing
Maybe virtual reality isn't just a game anymore.
January, 2008, Stanford Magazine
Anybody Out There?
The first in a two-part series on the search for life in space, starting
with astrobiology's hunt for a “second genesis” in our own solar
system.
July 4, 2007, East Bay Express
There's No Place Like Home?
The second half of the life-in-space series, focusing on Geoff Marcy and
Debra Fischer's search for other Earth-like planets. And for Goldilocks.
July 11, 2007, East Bay Express
The Case of the Missing Web Page
Is there free political speech on social networking sites like Facebook?
I’d like to tell you, but ... mffffprhhgl.
November 29, 2006, East Bay Express
SWM Seeking Alien Hottie
Craigslist …. in … spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
April 20, 2005, East Bay Express
Bug Juice
Looking for a way to power hydrogen fuel cells … using termite guts.
September 7, 2005, East Bay Express
Great Expectations
Why do zoo elephants keep killing their own offspring?
June, 2003, Smithsonian
Kernels of Truth
Scientists thought they could keep genetically engineered corn from cross-pollinating
with native plants. Well, maybe not, says Ignacio Chapela.
May 29, 2002, East Bay Express
The
Pentagon Goes to the Video Arcade
The military’s quest to turn shoot-‘em-up gaming software into
the ultimate training tool.
July, 1999, The Progressive
ACTION
ADVENTURES
Big
Idea
The low-flying adventures of the Super Guppy, the world's fattest plane.
August, 2008, Air & Space
The Hogs Of War
Tagging along with the Patriot Guard Riders.
July 2006, Mother Jones
Creatures of the Night
Is sneaking pink plastic flamingos onto people’s yards in the middle
of the night a business model? The Flamingess says yes.
April 26, 2006, East Bay Express
The $10 Million Woman
The strange travels of Picasso’s “Lady in White,” an oil
painting looted by the Nazis during World War II.
August 4, 2004, East Bay Express
Join My Cult!
In the beginning, there was a bar bet. The very strange genesis
of Danny Wallace's cult of Join Me.
July 21, 2004, East Bay Express
Catch Me If You Can
How members of the Bay Area’s Filipino community helped take down
a woman charged with conning $3 million out of them.
May 12, 2004, East Bay Express
Lost
in Iowa
Surviving the Iowa caucuses in the heart of Howard Dean's Perfect Storm.
January 21, 2004, East Bay Express
The Secret of the Santa Maria
In the seventeen years Margaret Brandeis spent hunting for the wreck of
the Santa Maria de los Remedios off the coast of Ecuador, she encountered
scheming rivals, poisonous sea snakes, crooked diviners, witches, mutinies,
and parasites. And that wasn’t even the weird part.
July 16, 2003, East Bay Express
It Was A Dark and Stormy Month…
The year National Novel Writing Month broke.
December 19, 2001, East Bay Express
Rocky Nights in San Leandro
Can a movie about cross-dressing transvestites from space be good clean
fun? A case study in what happens when three undercover cops turn up at
an unusually wild showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
April 6, 2001, East Bay Express
HEALTH
& MEDICINE
iProd
Forget willpower. What you need is a digital nagging device.
July, 2008 Stanford Magazine
Thinking
Outside the Cell
For decades, Mina Bissell preached an outsider gospel about what causes
cancer. But now, outside is in.
December 12, 2007, East Bay Express
A Cure for All That Ails You?
Is freezing your kids’ umbilical cord blood a potential lifesaver,
or just another expensive birthday present they’ll never use?
August 22, 2007, East Bay Express
The Fragile Ones
A gene mutation called Fragile X Syndrome may help researchers unlock
the secrets of the cause of autism. Kids like Lucas Clark, who have both,
will their Rosetta Stone.
April 19, 2006, East Bay Express
Live, Fast, Die Old
Calorie restrictors chew their way to eternal life, one plateful at a
time.
January 18, 2006, East Bay Express
It's a Boy! We Made Sure of It
Does the road to eugenics begin with gender selection?
November 3, 2004, East Bay Express
The Making of a Martyr
The life, death and politicization of Holly Patterson, the first American
woman to die after using RU-486 (medical abortion.)
December 17, 2003, East Bay Express
Misery Without Borders
HIV and the migrant farm worker.
February 16, 2001, East Bay Express
PROFILES
Love At First Byte
A profile of computer science pioneer Donald Knuth, author of The Art
of Computer Programming, and first-class sweetheart.
May, 2006, Stanford Magazine
Remote Control
Meet robot artist Ken Goldberg, a guy who is too smart for only one career.
November 11, 2005, East Bay Express
Talking Head for the Undead
Professor Paranormal sees dead people. Or at least, he smells them.
February 5, 2003, East Bay Express
Eric Mills and the Horse He Rode In On
California’s one-man animal rights activism team takes on the rodeo.
June 4, 2003, East Bay Express
2C-T-7’s Bad Trip
A profile of psychedelic chemist Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin,
and what happened when one of his lab inventions ran amok.
May 1, 2002, East Bay Express
Madam Middle
Back in 2001, people thought Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher might be the
Democrats’ first female presidential candidate. A profile of a party’s
rising star.
June 8, 2001, East Bay Express
The Collectors
Bruce Woodbury and Enid Westberg own the world’s largest collection
of smiley faces. And that's just the tip of their collecting iceberg.
January 22, 1999, East Bay Express
CRIME
Dealing
in Death
Meet the nation’s second biggest dealer in crime guns. Then learn
where three of those guns went.
July 5, 2006, East Bay Express
The
Last Stand of Eddy Zheng
Should this thirtysomething model prisoner be deported for a crime he
committed at age sixteen?
August 10, 2005, East Bay Express
What A Steal!
Psssst, ladies! Wanna buy a fake designer handbag? I infiltrate the secret
world of counterfeit purse parties.
November 3, 2004, East Bay Express
The Afghan Connection
Was this jewelry store owner and hawala operator just trying to help Afghani
and Pakistani-Americans wire money to impoverished relatives back home,
or was he funneling money to a heroin ring? A curious case of the murkiness
of money transfer to the Middle East in a post-9/11 world.
October 22, 2003, East Bay Express
Trailers Are for Travelers
How three Irish Travelers cruising the country in an RV raked in nearly
$1 million by pulling a bar-code scam on Home Depot.
September 10, 2003, East Bay Express
The Talented Mr. Young
The Fifth Top. The Imitation Temptation. The con man who has made a career
of pretending to be Motown legends.
March 27, 2002, East Bay Express
The Return of the Fifth Top
... And he's back.
May
21, 2003, East Bay Express
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