“These stories can withstand being turned upside down, torn apart, and reconstructed,” says Stanford Live's Laura Evans on staging this season’s theme of reflection and reinvention. A modern retelling of Frankenstein using shadow puppetry, film, and live music shows this weekend at Bing Concert Hall.
The physicist and faculty director of the Stanford Arts Institute wants to move “away from hybridizing art and science and toward resurrecting their last common ancestor.”
As she begins her new role this week, Jenny Martinez shares her thoughts on free speech, the IDEAL initiative, science fiction, and more. “We have so much to contribute to the world.”
The unintended consequences of antitrust regulation
Engineering Professor Riitta Katila on the impact of interventions intended to promote competition: “Big tech platforms often get a bad rap for killing innovation, but our findings show that it’s more nuanced than that.”
The disproportionate impacts of the Morocco earthquake
Postdoctoral fellow Samia Errazzouk discusses the historical and infrastructural factors complicating recovery efforts for those hardest hit by the Sept. 8 quake.
