Do you ever get the feeling Google is ascending to technology overlord status? Siva Vaidhyanathan raises that troubling possibility in a New York Times’ Bits Blog piece about Google’s ever expanding reach …
Read More >Elementa’s Associate Editors share their views… Atmospheric Science: Paul Palmer “University-based research is typically a non-profit endeavour, reflecting that it is largely funded by the tax payer. We, the academic community, …
Read More >We Californians know the weather has been dry, but exactly how dry? B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam, authors of The West Without Water, provide some historical context for the current drought in …
Read More >On KCRW’s Press Play with Madeleine Brand (segment starts at 41:30), Boom Editor Jon Christensen argues that despite popular perception, Los Angeles is now becoming a model for urban sustainability. Echoing arguments made in …
Read More >Ethan N. Elkind has some advice for the city of Los Angeles, currently underway on the construction of a multibillion-dollar rail network project. “Rail is expensive to build, operate and maintain compared …
Read More >San Francisco was also one of the first cities to increase the minimum wage beyond the federal level and mandate better benefits for low-income workers. The wage increase went into effect in …
Read More >To commemorate the passing of the great Amiri Baraka, we bring you an insider’s perspective on what it was like to work with such a towering cultural and literary icon. From 2002-2011, Kalicia …
Read More >When Mandates Work looks at the public policy experiments of San Francisco in the 1990s to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Although opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, …
Read More >Hilary Levey Friedman, author of Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture, is interviewed in the February issue of Parents magazine on how to teach children a healthy attitude towards competition. …
Read More >“My experience with this journal has been remarkable: among the best I have ever had.” Co-author of Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere …
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