Watching the fog slip away is like opening a package at Christmas time, except what is being revealed is nature in all its ...

Curandera tradicional Maria Ruiz Mendoza braids her hair every morning to honor the ancestral healing practices of her Zapotec Indigenous ancestors. Through braiding, she embodies intergenerational ...

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, ...

What’s lost in the translation from writer to physician? My life as an undergraduate was very different — as a... [Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997.] There is nothing like springtime ...

Are red pandas bears or raccoons? This question intrigues many animal-lovers and scientists alike. Regardless, their population keeps decreasing at dangerous rates and their estimated population as ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981. Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took a leading role in forcibly preventing a Ku Klux Klan ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the Neuropsychiatry Institute at UCLA and head of the university’s proposed Center for the Study of the Reduction ...

And it became clear that I wanted to live the rest of my life with you, I had to think about what marriage means to me.

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay, equipped with their own stethoscopes, leaned in, listening to the beats and murmurs of a manikin’s ...

What comes to mind when thinking about the word ‘hunger’? Maybe you pictured an empty fridge, a malnourished child, or simply a grumbling stomach? But did you imagine panic attacks, sleepless nights, ...