Blog - Sarah Lai Stirland

David Hockney died yesterday at the age of 88.

I was re-reading this essay from Edutopia recently, and it stands the test of time.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Drew Harwell (@bydrewharwell) Here is the original story: We checked DHS’ videos of chaos and protests.

Occasionally, I like to share some articles I come across that I think are amazing feats of journalism.

Imagine having your "best" friend or your therapist reveal your most personal details to anyone online.

A junk!

Is language and complex thought and planning “uniquely human?”

From The New Yorker: “The researchers found that a single bag from CVS leached more than thirteen thousand compounds; a bag from Walmart leached more than fifteen thousand.

The Atlantic: Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids “As children grow, parents must move from the role of boss to that of consultant.”

Amazing!

David Lesher, CalMatters Senior Editor, Mike Madrid, Political Consultant and Julián Castro, CEO, Latino Community Foundation at the CalMatters Ideas Festival 2024.

Podcasts for families to listen to for summer roadtrips: For young kids: Wow in the World.

From the March 25 edition of The Columbia Journalism Review, by Feven Merid.

Here’s a recent report I did on a talk in Los Gatos.

Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden — and whether they’d come back Young voters were key to President Biden’s victory in 2020.

Terrible news from Palo Alto … again.

Reuters reports that Reddit cut a deal to sell its community-user-generated content to Google to train its artificial intelligence efforts.

“Busy rebel and pusher of causes” Jane Fonda, June 2023, interviewed by Manny Yekutial at the Castro Theater, San Francisco One of the coolest things from 2023: Seeing and listening to the legend that is Jane Fonda (I even got to ask her a question!)

The Financial Times recently published a piece on “How some artists are incorporating DALL-E, Midjourney, and other AI tools into their work, while others remain anxious about AI’s impact on their livelihoods.”

As compiled by the NYT.