WATCH: The Gathering Place
Posted on August 20, 2020 - 2:29pm
Native American tribes
The Edge Episode 2: What’s In A Name?
Posted on August 5, 2020 - 9:52am
The Legend of Indian Rock, Berkeley’s Bouldering Haven
THEY COME AT DAY’S END TO SCAMPER up the steps carved in the south face of the rock and sit and watch the sun set. Or they come earlier in the day, often bearing crash pads, to climb on the slightly overhanging face in the grotto-like area on the back side, called “The Pit.” Sometimes they come as a class, to geologize, or to learn about the mortar rocks where, for thousands of years, the Ohlone ground acorns into mash.
From the Summer 2020 issue of California.
Reading Roundup: Probing the Sun, Draining the Swamp, and More
Hot Hot Heat
This Saturday, NASA plans to launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft designed to touch the edge of the solar corona, the aura of plasma that surrounds the sun. It will be the first-ever spacecraft to enter into the orbits of Venus and Mercury, a feat scientists have dreamt of for decades.
Posted on August 10, 2018 - 1:50pm
Janos Wilder: A Chef’s Journey from Pizza to Paris by Way of Tucson
When UNESCO named Tucson, Arizona a World City of Gastronomy in Dec. 2015, the first U.S. city so named, it put this small desert city on the global map. It also gave a boost to one of its top chefs, Janos Wilder.
Posted on July 11, 2017 - 1:04pm
