Features
Edward McCain
They're tiny, dimwitted and utterly unmanaged, so how do ants accomplish so much? After two decades of deep digging, researcher Deborah Gordon may be close to understanding ants' collective intelligence and what we can learn from it.
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Greg Spalenka
Broken Promise
Despite the poverty and neglect of his boyhood, one Salvadoran street child aimed high. But as a young ethnographer learned, 11-year-old Noe never had a chance.
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Hoover Archives
Life of the Party
A confidante and friend to leading members of the left's intelligentsia in the 1920s, later a stalwart presence at the Hoover Institution, Ella Wolfe was usually found behind the scenes. Now, her personal papers reveal the remarkable woman few people really knew.
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Angel Island: Breaking the Silence
Detained at a desolate outpost in San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century faced humiliation and despair in an America eager to keep them out. Thanks to a Stanford graduate, their stories are finally being told.
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Glenn Matsumura
Corps Curriculum
Thirty-two years ago, ROTC left campus in a firestorm of antiwar sentiment. Today, the program still attracts students from the Farm, who commute to nearby campuses to participate. Are they getting enough credit?
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10 Reasons to Like this Course
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Books, Music, Etc.
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Yurts Become Pop-Up Science Labs
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Trustee Extraordinaire
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Obituaries
July 2018
