Features & Essays
From Inuit hunters in their endless snowy landscape who have no concept of what it means to be lost to profound leaps in microscopy that enable scientists to watch an eye as it forms — sight allows us to explore our world, to orient ourselves within it and to find joy...
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The molecular dance that allows a unique bacterium to transfer electrons is captured on camera for the first time. Imagine you wanted to plug a device into an outlet on your wall, but you didn’t have a cord that reached all the way. Instead, all you had were short...
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How USC Alumni Led Pasadena to One of California’s Highest COVID Vaccination Rates Last Christmas Eve, while many Americans were at home with their families, Manuel Carmona MPA ’06 sat inside a Pasadena Public Health Department office, anxiously watching a...
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How the Pandemic Changed Museums Forever (or Did It?) The exhibition “We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles” opened at the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena to great uncertainty. Just two days earlier, the World Health Organization declared...
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How ‘Law and Order’ Rhetoric Hurts Communities Reeling from COVID-Related Spike in Violence At the Roots Community Health Center in East Oakland, California, founder Noha Aboelata, M.D., is accustomed to caring for individuals and families who have been...
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Farm animal sanctuaries across the country have had to adapt in these unprecedented times. Here’s a case study of how one has innovated. Since its founding in 2016, Charlie’s Acres—a farm animal sanctuary in Sonoma, CA—has been a place where visitors can make personal...
