Could Leasing Water Rights Provide a Way Out of the Drought for California?
The state’s cities need water. Its farmers have it. Maybe leasing rights to it could solve the crisis responsibly.
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Why Millions of Chinese-Made Solar Panels Sat Unused in Southern California Warehouses for Years
A panic over renewable energy and billions in subsidies turned the world’s biggest carbon emitter into the world’s largest solar panel maker nearly overnight—but that doesn't mean those panels were put to use.
The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The First-Generation College Student Modifying the Memories of Humans
We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.
The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Historian Questioning Why So Many of Us Take Our Local World as the Default
We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.
Reading, Writing, and Musicianship
The Harmony Project finds that regular music lessons can have many benefits.
What If Education Reform Got It All Wrong in the First Place?
That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.
Tracking the Evolving Brain of the Young Musician
An ambitious five-year study of young orchestral players aims to determine how taking group music lessons impacts them intellectually and emotionally.
How an After-School Program Fought Crime
A police force and an after-school program in Costa Mesa, California, worked together to make a neighborhood safer and send kids to college. What can we learn from their success?
Finding Nutrition in the Food Deserts of California
In a state with agricultural export revenue totaling more than $18 billion annually, the Central Valley’s approximately 700,000 farm workers don’t earn enough to feed themselves properly.
Amazed and Confused: My Night at the Movies
I sort of loved Boyhood, but it’s what happened when the lights came on that really matters.