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December 7, 1972 was the launch of the final mission in NASA's Apollo moon program. Fifty years later, NASA finally seems poised to return people to the lunar surface.

Nominated for an Oscar and debuting on HBO this week, All That Breathes explores the mission of two Muslim brothers: saving raptors cut down by smog and deadly kite strings.

From sci-fi to the streets, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors considers a policy proposal on whether the San Francisco Police Department can use robots as a deadly force.

Xi Jinping is expected to break longstanding tradition in the coming days and secure a third term as China's president. It will mark a new era for China and likely lead to more tensions with the U.S.

Extended by popular demand to October 10!North Coast Rep is finally going live with the production of "Dancing Lessons" by Mark St. Germain. Entertaining, and charming! We meet two highly offbeat characters, a Broadway dancer and a science professor coping with physical and emotional challenges as they forge an unexpected friendship in this heartfelt play. Filled with laughs and the intricacies of the human condition, we witness their journey of discovery and personal triumph as they come to realize that sometimes the most profound experiences can occur when least expected. Current COVID-19 measures at North Coast Rep include mandatory masks worn indoors and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours. Learn more and check for updates here.

Washington, D.C., is considered the highest-risk place for COVID infection in the nation. Data shows D.C. had 1,192 new cases per day and 169 cases per 100,000 in the seven-day period ending Monday.

Democrats plan to spend $20 billion to help rural communities address the climate crisis. There's little sign the infusion of money will reshape politics in areas that traditionally vote Republican.

A virtual event in Ocean Prototype Nights, a UC San Diego "Navigating the Pacific" series anticipating Getty Pacific Standard Time "Art + Science" 2024, hosted and sponsored by UC San Diego Visual Arts, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Design Lab, and the Getty Foundation. Date | Thursday, October 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Location | Virtual Activities schedule: • 7 p.m. – 7:40 p.m. – Kumeyaay tule boats (ha kwaiyo) link land and sea, past and present in the Kumeyaay language and culture revitalization movement. Stanley Rodriguez, in dialog with Amy Sara Carroll and Nan Renner at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. • 7:40 p.m. – 8:20 p.m. – Kumeyaay weaving, from baskets to fishnets, show artistry and ingenuity, drawing from a varied terrain from the coast to the Colorado River. Martha Rodriguez, in dialog with Ricardo Dominguez and Lisa Cartwright at Kosay Kumeyaay Market. • 8:20 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Position Vector Salton Sea measures the rapid disappearance of the Salton Sea on tribal lands (site of ancient Lake Cahuilla) in a site-specific art installation created by the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Desert Indian Tribal Community in partnership with land artist Hans Baumann. Hans Baumann in dialog with James Nisbet, Manuel Schvartzberg Carrió and Joe Riley at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego/North. Six live-streamed evening dialogs twice a quarter from October through June around the “Navigating the Pacific” project, which are "prototypes" in the sense that they show ideas in progress.
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Despite more than a handful of setbacks, President Biden has delivered on several major promises since 2021, some with bipartisan support. Those compromises could be harder with the new Congress.

Most humans walk around feeling like they know what reality is, but the message at the core of Dr. Guy Leschziner's book is that all sensory information we receive is intrinsically ambiguous.