Thinking Green: Our California Wetlands

By Daria Syskine The dense, sweet scent of fennel drifts across the landscape. It grows in thick clumps along the side of the bike trail. As we ride past the final stretch of trailer parks, houses and office buildings on the side of the trail, the wetlands open up before us — dark briny streams cutting curving …

From Sputnik to Supercomputers: 50 Years of Technology

By Kevin Li It was October of 1957, an especially tense period of the Cold War. The Soviet Union had just successfully launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to reach space. The incident shocked Americans, who had previously thought they were far ahead in science and technology, and even raised serious concerns about the possibility …