Homepage > Elsewhere

Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024

AP News: China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions

NY Times : A Warning From a California Marine Heat Wave

NPR: How to be not lonely? 'Cohousing' is an answer for some people

KQED: A look at California shows the variety of state and city 'sanctuary' laws

NPR: An ex-detective accused of decades of abuse in Kansas is found dead on the day his trial began

NPR: Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it's the Oxford Word of 2024

NPR: Teens can't get off their phones. Here's what some schools are doing about it

KTLA: Maui woman who vanished in Los Angeles seen voluntarily crossing into Mexico

KRON: LAPD give update on Maui woman who vanished in Los Angeles

KRON: Foster City works to control Canada geese

KRCR: 71-year-old Mad River man dies in ATV crash

KRCR: Blue Lake resident tries to smuggle drugs into jail after chainsaw theft arrest

NY Times : Supreme Court Returns to a Culture War Battleground: Transgender Rights

AP News: South Korean president declares martial law, accusing opposition of anti-state activity

Smithsonian Magazine: Crews Remove Miles of Abandoned, Lead-Coated Telephone Cables From the Bottom of Lake Tahoe

Smithsonian Magazine: ‘Brain Rot,’ the Scourge of the Chronically Online, Becomes Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year

KOMO : Redmond police link home burglary suspects to international crime ring

KOMO : 87-year-old stabs 86-year-old wife to death in Bellevue's first homicide of 2024

KPTV: Missing woman hiker found dead near Welches; Husband charged with murder

Washington Post: Revenge, fire and destruction: A year of Israeli soldiers’ videos from Gaza

Washington Post: Older women are changing the face of the U.S. labor force

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Lawsuit claims Southern Oregon forestry companies failing foreign workers

AP News: Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic

Marin Independent Journal: Marin Housing Authority reports $950K theft by hackers

Marin Independent Journal: Mill Valley man drives Ferrari into bay

Marin Independent Journal: Sudden oak death resurgent in Marin amid wetter weather

BBC: Why is vintage audio equipment booming?

SF Chronicle: Here are 21 new laws that Californians must start following in 2025

East Bay Times: Investors got big tax breaks to turn luxury Bay Area apartments into affordable housing. In many cases, rents are higher than before

East Bay Times: Homes vs. beaches: Court makes key decision in battle over California seawall construction amid ocean rise

East Bay Times: California Democrats open special session to Trump-proof state priorities

SF Gate: Missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi crossed Mexico border, police say

SF Chronicle: Person who drove off Santa Cruz cliff rescued by bystanders

LA Times: California biofuel project aims to cut wildfire risk, but at what cost?

Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024

The Guardian: What’s behind the alarming rise in birth defects in Brazil’s illegal gold mining capital?

BBC: Why humans feel the need to feast together

NPR: Feeling stuffed after the big meal? Don't flop on the sofa, take a 'fart walk'

NPR: Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago

The Guardian: Astonishment as missing Canadian hiker emerges after weeks in wilderness

The Guardian: Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative

Reuters: China scientists rush to climate-proof potatoes

Reuters: Mexico warns Trump tariffs would kill 400,000 US jobs, threatens retaliation

BBC: First new asthma attack treatment in 50 years

Reuters: After Australia legislated a teen social media ban, it has to figure out how to enforce it

BBC: Australian Senate approves social media ban on under-16s

KQED: Yes, You Can Still Catch Fresh, Local Dungeness Crab for Thanksgiving

KQED: Santa Clara Approves Major Housing and Office Development; Could Take 25 Years to Build

LA Times: Bat is the prime suspect in ultra-rare human rabies fatality in Central California

LA Times: Men charged with stealing 1,200 pairs of Air Jordans from a train in the Mojave Desert

SF Chronicle: Branches falling on PG&E power line may have sparked 19,000-acre California wildfire