The Economist
Want to be a good explorer? Study economics
Reports on an economic model, pioneered at Stanford University, that helps process vast reams of information.
Wired
Scientists succeed in reversing Parkinson’s symptoms in mice
Stanford neuroscientist Suzanne Pfeffer in a story about scientists successfully reversing Parkinson’s symptoms in mice.
Acquired podcast
David Rosenthal, Stanford alum and host of the “Acquired” podcast, in a series tracing Google’s rise from a research project on campus to a tech giant.
Smithsonian magazine
Scavenger animals are in trouble, and that could spell bad news for human health
Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford biologist and environmental scientist, on new research showing the impacts of a decline in large scavenger species.
CNN
Children born now may live in a world where the U.S. can only produce half as much of its key food crops
Solomon Hsiang, professor of environmental social sciences at the Doerr School of Sustainability, about a new study on the impact of rising global temperatures on food crops.
USA Today
Olympic champion Katie Ledecky encourages 2025 graduates to win ‘your’ race
14-time Olympic medalist Katie Ledecky, ’20, offered some valuable life advice to the Class of 2025 – Stanford’s largest graduating class ever.
New York Times
Immigration raids add to absence crisis for schools
A study by education Professor Thomas S. Dee found that daily absences jumped 22 percent around the time raids occurred.
CapRadio
This city is exploring an unconventional solution to water scarcity: sewage
Newsha Ajami, director of urban water policy at Stanford's Water in the West program, shares the challenges of upscaling wastewater reuse.
NPR
To get from experience to emotion, the brain hits ‘sustain’
Karl Deisseroth, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of bioengineering, discusses how the brain takes an experience and responds with an emotion.
TIME
AI will devastate the future of work. But only if we let it
Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, on how AI could impact the future of work