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By Nellie Bowles The women at San Francisco’s recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference for startups had every right to be angry. The “boys will be boys” mantra was regularly invoked as presentations by male counterparts were crude, sexist and offensive. In Silicon Valley, women earn 49 cents for every $1 a man earns, according to Catherine […]
By Justin Berton University of California regents have come up with a novel approach to raising scholarship funds: have students dress in a cow suit for a week. Or swim 3 miles nonstop. Or wear a horse’s head in public. Those are just some of the adventures pledged by UC students in a novel crowdfunding […]
By Carolyn Jones It took four years and five moves, but Igor Akimenko, a UC Berkeley senior, finally found a decent place to live. He shares a converted living room with three other people, in an 11-bedroom house about a half-mile from campus. His rent: $540 a month. “I don’t even know how many people […]
By Nanette Asimov The recession is over, and University of California officials need a place to party. Or, in the more dignified phrasing used by UC, they want a place to “accommodate essential entertainment functions” of incoming President Janet Napolitano, the former head of Homeland Security who starts work at UC on Sept. 30. The […]
By Nanette Asimov For the first time in years, California’s community colleges are opening their doors to more students — about 60,000 more — instead of turning them away. College officials on Wednesday credited Proposition 30, the tax increase approved by voters in November, for propelling a happy domino effect across the college system: More […]
By Stacy Finz In a big nondescript building on Buchanan Street in Albany, scientists are trying to solve the world’s food mysteries. Why do some imported black olives taste like cow dung? What is that pleasant toasty flavor in basmati rice? How can you maximize vitamin D in a mushroom? They’re hunkering down in the […]
By Bob Egelko When Theodore Olson and David Boies, two prominent corporate lawyers, challenged California’s ban on same-sex marriage in federal court more than four years ago, many gay-rights advocates thought it was the wrong case in the wrong court, at the wrong time, and could set the movement back seriously. Today, because of that […]
By Peter Fimrite Dive-bombing yellow jackets are out in full force, ruining barbecues and family picnics throughout California, but another stinging pest may also be responsible for spoiling the outdoor party buzz. The European paper wasp, which is spreading quickly across Northern California, is at least partially responsible for an increase this year in yellow […]
