Local students performed in a Mexican folkloric dance and mariachi presentation on August 2 on the stage of the El Verano Community School Center to share their new skills and celebrate the conclusion of their two-week camp. Leonardo Lobato, Executive Director of La Luz Center,... Continue
The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) has pulled the $20-Billion affordable housing bond measure from the ballot, instead deciding to let voters first decide about lowering the threshold for passage of housing bond measures to 54% from the current 67%. The proposed measure, approved... Continue
Babbling babies need timely responses to learn language, social norms. New research shows the timing of others' reactions to their babbling is key to how babies begin learning language and social norms Continue
Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of the country’s scientists Continue
Psychologist Ofer Zur, PhD, is traveling in Israel and the West Bank and will do a LIVE Zoom broadcast for the Praxis Peace Institute from one of the cities he will be visiting on August 16th. In the West Bank, his guide will be Palestinian... Continue
Who knew? A hypothesis is that electrolysis is taking place spontaneously as a result of the presence of copper and manganese nodules lying on the sea bed. If it turns out to be true, this is a significant contributor to free oxygen on the planet Continue
Big yuck of the day: Your microwave oven has its own microbiome. A survey of bacteria living inside household and laboratory appliances finds a robust ecosystem Continue
Planting of a new dense pocket forest on the Sassarini Elementary School campus, called a Miyawaki Forest, will happen this fall. The plan is supported by the local Garden Club, Sonoma Ecology Center, and other local groups, with professional arborist guidance from A Plus Tree... Continue
Animals are alive; it’s so obvious as to be a tautology. Not all animals, however, are aware of being alive. As far as we can tell, human beings are the only ones. Opinion about awareness, and even more precisely reason, has varied. The designation of... Continue
We all know that Coca-Cola once contained cocaine. But why? And why did they take it out? It was all about race Continue