November/December 2012

Features

Who Needs the Humanities at 'Start-Up U'?

Galvanized by perceptions that Stanford is primarily a training ground for tech entrepreneurs, humanities faculty are working to show the value, relevance and strength of their programs.

How the Truth Gets Twisted

Fuzzy memories aren't the only problem with relying on eyewitness testimony in the courtroom, says psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, MA '67, PhD '70. Her research has shown that what we think we remember can be completely contrived.

In a Last Wild Place

Lions are being lost at an alarming rate across Africa. Biologist and wildlife photographer Susan McConnell traveled to a reserve in Mozambique to see why they're in trouble, and what's being done to help.

Farm Report

OUTREACH

Caring After Hours

Community clinics

FINDINGS

Taking Stock of Congress

Making legislators play by the rules

MUSIC

Traditional Jazz, 24/7, Free

All that music, all in one place

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT

Tresidder

TROVE

A Clock Like No Other

Keeping time, circa 1650

FOLLOW-UP

University Takes Over Chi Theta Chi House Management

Chi Theta Chi's demise

BUNKUM

Apocalypse Not

End of the world? Not so much

FOOTBALL

Nunes Passes Test Against USC

A quarterback's crucible

Planet Cardinal

ON THE JOB

Flights of Fancy

A shark that flies!

BIOGRAPHY

One Man's Long March

Biography of a Maoist

ISSUES

Watching Grass Grow

If pot were legal, what then?

AUTHOR AUTHOR

Happy Endings

At age 82, a novel approach

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

How to Be a Successful Human

Education for earthlings

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

A Force for Better Health Care

Pushing medicine forward

1,000 WORDS

Run!

END NOTE

Tests of Greatness

Conflicted about gratitude

Class Notes

Farewells

Blockbuster Producer

Richard D. Zanuck, '56

Gentle Conscience

M. Brewster Smith, '39, MA '40

Game Changer

Gordon Herbert Waddell, '64

Online Exclusives

Meet the Parents

Nobody experiences the agony and ecstasy of the game quite like the moms and dads of the players.

CARDINAL CONVERSATIONS

O Tannenbaum

Artificial tree maker Thomas Harman, MBA '05, on the appeal of fake fir.

CARDINAL CONVERSATIONS

'Tis Better to Give?

Gift giving, and receiving, analyzed.

CARDINAL CONVERSATIONS

Kidneys for Sale

A young alum thinks money is the key increasing kidney donations.