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MUSIC NEWS TALK BLOGS EVENTS FRINGE BENEFITS JOIN US ABOUT Headline , What It Means to Be American » The Slave Gardener Who Turned the Pecan Into a Cash Crop By Lenny Wells | December 14, 2017 Pecan trees, armored with scaly, gray bark and waving their green leaves in the breeze, grow in neat, uniform rows upon the Southern U.S. landscape and yield more than 300 million pounds of thumb-sized, plump, brown nuts every year. Native to the United States, they’ve become our most successful home-grown tree nut crop. Hazelnuts originated here too, but they come from a shrub, which can … Read the full story » UCLA Chancellor Gene Block Talks Rhythm, Jet Lag, and Curing Depression By Zócalo Public Square | December 13, 2017 Why Americans Insist on Putting a Price Tag on Life By Eli Cook | December 12, 2017 To Be Blunt, California’s Marijuana Industry Is Stoking High Anxiety By Joe Mathews | December 11, 2017 Thinking L.A. A partnership of UCLA and Zócalo Public Square Connecting California Joe Mathews’ weekly column What It Means to Be American A national conversation hosted by the Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square The Takeaway The full story from last night at Zócalo Open Art A partnership of the Getty and Zócalo Public Square Headline , What It Means to Be American » The Slave Gardener Who Turned the Pecan Into a Cash Crop By Lenny Wells | December 14, 2017 Pecan trees, armored with scaly, gray bark and waving their green leaves in the breeze, grow in neat, uniform rows upon the Southern U.S. landscape and yield more than 300 million pounds of thumb-sized, plump, brown nuts every year. Native to the United States, they’ve become our most successful home-grown tree nut crop. Hazelnuts originated here too, but they come from a shrub, which can … Read the full story » Featured , In the Green Room » UCLA Chancellor Gene Block Talks Rhythm, Jet Lag, and Curing Depression By Zócalo Public Square | December 13, 2017 Gene Block has served as UCLA chancellor since Aug. 1, 2007. He previously was vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, where he was also the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professor of Biology. Chancellor Block is a distinguished professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and holds a joint faculty appointment in integrative biology and … Read the full story » Essay , Headline » Will Squid Soon Rule the Oceans? By Danna Staaf | December 13, 2017 The future is full of tentacles. Even now, both giant and colossal squid writhe throughout the deep, while hooked and flying squid migrate from sea to sea in swirling swarms. Otherworldly glass squid and jewel squid proliferate in the open ocean. And market and common squid blanket shorelines with their egg capsules and their own dying bodies. Then, of course, there are the octopuses: giant and pygmy, … Read the full story » Essay , Featured » Why Americans Insist on Putting a Price Tag on Life By Eli Cook | December 12, 2017 Everything, as they say in America, has its price. It has been found that a lack of sleep costs the American economy $411 billion a year and stress another $300 billion. Countless other studies have calculated the annual cost of pain ($560 million), heart disease ($309 billion), cancer ($243 billion), and diabetes ($188 billion). Surf the web at work sometimes? That costs the American people … Read the full story » Headline , The Takeaway » Depression Isn’t Just a Global Epidemic. It’s a Silent One. By Reed Johnson | December 12, 2017 Depression is still the illness that dares not speak its name. Taboos persist. Social stigmas endure. Many confounding mysteries remain about exactly what causes depression and how best to treat it—even though it affects tens of millions of people worldwide, and even as the number of suicides globally has soared to 1 million. Those painful realities formed the backdrop to a Zócalo/UCLA event titled “How Can … Read the full story » Connecting California , Featured » To Be Blunt, California’s Marijuana Industry Is Stoking High Anxiety By Joe Mathews | December 11, 2017 California’s 2018 transition to legal marijuana contains a mind-bending paradox: Ending prohibitions on marijuana is going to require an awful lot of aggressive law enforcement. When January 1 rolls around, California will not merely be permitting adults 21 and older to buy marijuana for recreational purposes. The state and its cities also will be scrambling to create a new and wickedly complicated regime to regulate and … Read the full story » Featured , Poetry » Christmas letters written,/ then destroyed #poem By Genevieve Leone | December 8, 2017 OCCUPIED ***** Underneath this day, another The way morning – shang – sits on top of afternoon What is past is what we see – Speculation as to how long this war will last. Con Cater says 3 months. Ethel Taylor says 12 months. I say three years. The pages fill. Each day a blank. ***** Then, my stomach – moldy flour, wanting news from home, and a body is what we bring, what we … Read the full story » Essay , Headline » When Alaskan and Russian Native People Thawed the Cold War’s ‘Ice Curtain’ By David Ramseur | December 8, 2017 As the Russian city of Provideniya’s deteriorating concrete buildings came into view below, Darlene Pungowiyi Orr felt uneasy. So did the other 81 passengers landing in that isolated far-eastern Soviet outpost in 1988. They were aboard the first American commercial jet to land there since the United States and USSR had imposed a Cold War “Ice Curtain” across the Bering Sea some 40 years earlier. Orr, … Read the full story » The Takeaway » Barack Obama Had an ‘Iron Will’ to Succeed—but What Was at His Core? By Reed Johnson | December 7, 2017 Historian David J. Garrow acknowledges that he’s “cynical” about Barack Obama, a conclusion that he reached while conducting 1,000 interviews and spending nine years researching the formation and political rise of America’s 44th president. Garrow shared some of his reasons for what he called his “huge disappointment” with the Obama presidency at a Zócalo/KCRW “Critical Thinking with Warren Olney” event, “How Did Barack Obama Create Himself?”. Hosted … Read the full story » Headline , What It Means to Be American » Why We French Canadians Are Neither French nor Canadian By Robert B. Perreault | December 7, 2017 Whenever my family visits Québec, people other than our relatives are surprised to hear Americans—even our grandchildren, ages five and six—speak fluent French. They’re amazed to learn that French is our mother tongue and that we also speak English without a French accent. Likewise, if we leave our native New Hampshire to travel elsewhere in the United States, we get blank stares upon mentioning that … Read the full story » Page 1 of 174 1 2 3 4 Next › News with an element of sensation becomes breaking news today . Sensation sells. Everything is made sensational even if it is not. BROUGHT TO YOU BY Most Commented Is Treason Now Just a Punch Line? What Would Happen If We Put Teachers in Charge of School Reform? Who Are the Homeless People in My Library? When California Sterilized 20,000 of Its Citizens Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur Powered by WordPress | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS)...