The Latest Stories From KQED Science
| Proven Schizophrenia Treatments Keep People in School, at Work and off the Street. Why Won't Insurance Companies Cover Them? | | What if, instead of telling patients with schizophrenia to prepare for a lifetime of disability, we asked them what they want and worked with them toward full recovery? | | |
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| Climate Fix: How The Bay Area is Preparing for Sea Level Rise | | In this second installment of “Climate Fix: Rethinking Solutions for California,” a collaboration between the KQED’s Forum and Climate teams, we learn what’s happening with groundwater levels as the Bay Area prepares for sea level rise over the next several decades. | | |
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| California Keeps Sending Toxic Soil to Out-of-State Landfills — Newsom and Legislators Are Slow to Change Course | | State lawmakers are planning an oversight hearing that will look into how California handles toxic soil from old industrial, military and other cleanup sites — waste contaminated with things such as lead, petroleum hydrocarbons and the infamous insecticide DDT. | | |
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| | | Kraw Law Group | Kraw Law Group presents a special opportunity to meet Dr. Karen Miga, genomic scientist and assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz. You are invited to attend this fascinating lecture, Rebooting the Human Genome: New Variant Discovery in the Era of Complete Genomes about the need to create a more sophisticated and complete human reference genome that better represents global genomic diversity.
For more information and to register for this event, visit UCSC.edu.
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| 'Overflowing With Patients': Why the Head of California's Hospital Association Thinks It's a Bad Time to End the State of Emergency | | California ended its COVID state of emergency after almost three years. Carmela Coyle, head of the California Hospital Association, talks about why she believes it's a 'terrible time' for this move. | | |
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| Event: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Half Century Love Affair With the Sierra Nevada | Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Join literary critic Oscar Villalon and climate reporter Laura Klivans for a conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson about his new book “The High Sierra: A Love Story,” a genre-shifting memoir and atlas of the mountain range, and what our climate future has in store for this magisterial feature of the California landscape. | | |
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| Save the Date for KQED Fest on April 29 | | Spend a spring Saturday with KQED! Join us for a free, all-ages block party and open house at our headquarters in San Francisco. Learn about your community with KQED shows live on stage. Go behind the scenes on a newsroom and studio tour. And groove to live music performances presented by Noise Pop on an outdoor stage. | | |
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