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  • "Do I truly feel like hip-hop is dead? No, I don't," Questlove tells NPR. "However, I do believe that the landscape and the rules have changed. And some of its participants don't know it."
    In an industry of conformity, Questlove remains a hip-hop iconoclast
    In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album.
  • Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of a special session in Baton Rouge, La., on Jan. 15, 2024. Landry signed a bill in June allowing surgical castration to be a potential punishment for certain sex offenses against children.
    What to know about Louisiana's new surgical castration law
    Louisiana’s governor signed a controversial bill that will make his state the first to allow surgical castration for people found guilty of certain sex crimes against children.
  • SWANS: Slow War Against the Nuclear State
    The legacy of over 2,000 nuclear weapon tests and the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan has had profound global effects. SWANS is a collective including artists Nancy Buchanan, Judith Dancoff, Jane C. Mi, Hillary Mushkin, Sheila Pinkel and elin o’Hara slavick, who mine their personal connections to nuclear physics in artworks that challenge the nuclear state. The group explores the past and future of nuclear proliferation, with explosive visuals that interrogate the legacy of the bomb, nuclear power and uranium mining. Since 1945, atomic bombs have altered global politics, ecosystems and even our biology. Can art alter those landscapes? Come join us at 12:00 p.m. at the Kellogg Library Reading Room for coffee and to attend this workshop and panel!
  • Researchers say multiple factors are likely impacting early puberty, including obesity, stress and endocrine-disrupting hormones which are widespread in the environment.
    Girls are getting their first periods earlier. Here's what parents should know
    Girls in the U.S. are getting their first menstrual period about 6 months earlier on average than they did in the 1950s and '60s. And the number of girls starting their period before age nine has doubled. Researchers say parents can help prepare their kids for early puberty.
  • From 2022-2023, chronic absenteeism declined in 33 of the 39 states AEI looked at. But it was still a persistent problem: In a handful of places, including Nevada, Washington, D.C., Michigan, New Mexico and Oregon, roughly 1 in 3 students – or more – were chronically absent.
    K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they're still missing too much school
    Families will play an essential role in getting students back on track, researchers say. But it's going to take a "culture" shift around the importance of being in school.
  • The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, on June 27, 2023.
    Attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant increase accident risk, IAEA head says
    The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a Ukrainian drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
  • Traveling internationally with a dog — or adopting one from abroad — just got a bit more complicated. The CDC issued new rules intended to reduce the risk of importing rabies.
    The CDC issues new rules for bringing dogs into the U.S., aimed at keeping out rabies
    The CDC announced stricter regulations for importing dogs from abroad — or traveling internationally with your furry companions.
  • Arthur Hughes plays the title character in Hulu's four-part series, Shardlake.
    Beautifully acted 'Shardlake' brings 500-year-old Tudor intrigue into the present day
    A London barrister in Henry VIII's England finds himself investigating a murder in a monastery. Hulu's new four-part series, based on C.J. Sansom's 2003 novel, feels strikingly contemporary.
  • Family Space Night 2023
    Get ready to explore the Museum after hours and find your passion for science, technology, reading, engineering, art, and math (STREAM)! Blast off into the universe and put your astronaut skills to the test with hands-on activities to learn about: • Telescopes with San Diego Astronomy Association • Stomp rockets with San Diego Air and Space Museum • Robotics with Millennium Falcons • Solar eclipses with NASA Solar System Ambassadors • Astrophysics with UCSD Physics Outreach • Problem solving with ASML • Light pollution with DarkSky • Space slime with Quantum Academy • Habitability with Dr. Breezy Ocana Flaquer and SDSU Astronomy Outreach • Remote control space craft engineering • Solar flare flipbook • Temperature mapping • Space face painting Plus, you won't want to miss out on our featured experience: • Glow in the dark space jam dance party with Dance to Evolve! Fill your rumbling stomach by visiting the unique food truck, Up in Smoke, for delicious barbecue.
  • A legacy in speeches: Remembering Nelson Mandela 10 years after his death
    South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, died on Dec. 5, 2013. Revisit the speeches that made Mandela the most prominent figure of the anti-apartheid movement.
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