Mr. Packard’s Little Garage

from Coolidge Review THE GARAGE WHERE SILICON VALLEY BEGAN By Christopher DeMuth Dave Packard (left) and Bill Hewlett launched their company from Packard’s garage in Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley The 1960s and 1970s were decades of busy, bossy,...

Best Supporting City

from the Los Angeles Times How L.A. stopped being Hollywood’s leading star by Stacy Perman It was a television show tailor made for Los Angeles: a highly anticipated Netflix crime drama about a team of ex-special forces operators who outsource their skills to...

Deep Dark Oxygen

from The New Yorker The Mystery of Dark Oxygen Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground. By James Dinneen In March, I accompanied an international team of scientists on an...

Mo’ Veggies

from Science Alert The World’s Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It’s Quietly Wrecking Our Diets By JESS COCKERILL Most of us aren’t eating anywhere near enough vegetables, and we’re suffering the health consequences. Meanwhile, we’re also...

Double Nickels On the Dime

from PASTE Magazine Minutemen proved destined for punk-rock greatness on Double Nickels On the Dime Time Capsule: The San Pedro trio’s classic 1984 double album is among the genre’s greatest feats, one that’s impossible to replicate or overrate.  By Abby...