The rising tide of encampment sweeps in Oakland
By Alastair Boone on How the city’s changing homelessness strategy is on display at Lake Merritt. By Alastair Boone
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City of Oakland closes the encampment at Union Point Park
By Thomas Brouns on This is the story of the fight over Union Point Park.
We are the haunted, not the horrors
By Stefani Echeverría-Fenn on Science has now proven that trauma can be passed down intergenerationally; that rats whose mothers were exposed to stressors like water can epigenetically inherit a special fear of water. Before we had this science, nearly every culture on Earth had ghost stories.