March/April 2017

Features

Finding the Cures Within Us

A Gentleman's Quarrel

Should We Lose the Lecture?

Farm Report

Wearable Devices That Tell You When You're Getting Sick

One More Reason to Love Coffee

Study: We Like Lots of Choices

The Fascinating Life of the Acorn Worm

At Last Count: 125,000 rpm

Etchemendy Through the Rearview Mirror

Trustees Name Raikes New Chair

For the Band, Another Chance

The Daily Bets on New Revenue Streams

Campus Traffic Goes in Circles, In a Good Way

Online Labs Can Teach Millions

Soccer's Rapid Rise

Set, Match, Magic

A Faster, Cheaper TB Test

BREAKTHROUGHS, BRIEFLY

Hydrogels Can Make the World Better

BREAKTHROUGHS, BRIEFLY

Making Sickle Cells Well

ECO-TIPS

Greening the Wedding

Finding: A Gender Gap in Citations

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Beating the Doomsday Clock

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

What's Next for Stanford?

Letters to the Editor

1,000 WORDS

A Striking Look at Starfish Larvae

Books, Music & Film

EXAMINED LIFE

The Friendships of Sid Drell

CONSIDER THIS

Let's Reconsider Russia

SPOTLIGHT

The Believer

END NOTE

Name Dropping

Class Notes

THE DISH

The Compelling Motivation of a 'Survivor' Winner

THE DISH

North Dakota Governor's Farm Memories

THE DISH

Theater on a Bus Goes Cross-Country

THE DISH

First-Gen Stanford Grad Is California's Top Cop

THE DISH

Stanford Grad to Become Duke's President

Farewells

FAREWELL: CHARLES M. STEIN

Statistician and Activist

FAREWELL: BRUCE CASS, '69

Wine Expert and Educator

FAREWELL: HUBERT R. MARSHALL

Political Scientist and Pacifist

Obituaries

The Notes

Online Exclusives

Prescription for a Homeless Man

ECO-TIPS

Irrational or Only Human?