The kids at San Jose’s Valley Christian High School are the first high school students to send an experiment into outer space. The students and advisers of the school’s Applied Math Science and Engineering Institute designed an experiment to learn how plants grow in space. If it succeeds, it could lead the way to astronauts growing their own food on long space flights.
Articles by Danny Wool
It will be a tense day at UC Santa Cruz, as students and faculty return to class after the long weekend. Concerns have been raised about a threat of violence, posted anonymously in a bathroom in the Social Sciences building in December. Though there was no indication of what form the violence would take, many students have announced their intentions to stay home today. The Student Union Assembly canceled a meeting and a small number of professors have canceled classes.
It has been a busy week for Facebook, with a new privacy policy reverted, a Golden Globe apology of sorts, and a Goldman Sachs decision to sell private stocks only to European and Asian customers. The privacy policy flip-flop came after the company announced it would make home addresses and mobile phone numbers available to the developers of third-party apps.
There has been a sharp increase in tagging in San Jose, and it is costing the city real money. Most of the graffiti is done by teens hoping to leave their mark on the city for posterity. What they don’t realize is that painting their expressions of creativity ends up costing the taxpayer $1.5 million a year.
A Sacramento man hacked the Facebook passwords of hundreds of women, using information he gleaned off their pages. He then used the information to find naked pictures of the women, which he mailed back to them. The problem, say experts, is that people are not careful in selecting secure passwords for the Internet.
It has been 23 years since the band broke up, but the Smiths still have their fans. One of these fans, Janice Whaley, has been covering the Smiths’ entire catalogue on her blog and on YouTube. Seventy-one songs later, her work is a lasting tribute to one of the iconic British bands of the 1980s.
Mineta Airport’s Terminal B was on lockdown Thursday night after a woman exited the secure area and attempted to re-enter through the exit line, bypassing a second screening. Because of the incident, all of the passengers in the terminal were forced to go through a second screening. Even passengers already on planes were told to leave the aircraft and go through screening again.
While California struggles to locate death penalty drugs, the state is also facing a shortage of chemotherapy drugs. The problem is that the chemo drugs are not profitable, so big drug companies have cut back on producing them. That could mean a price hike is on the horizon.
On Wednesday, Intel named 300 high school students nationwide as semifinalists in its annual Science Talent Search competition. A record 26 students are from the South Bay, with two San Jose schools, Harker Academy and Lynbrook, accounting for half of the local nominees. The Harker Academy produced seven intrepid researchers, while Lynbrook produced six.
Under normal conditions, the Almaden Valley is out of reach for people looking for an affordable home. It’s an exclusive neighborhood with top schools, great parks and a stunning view of majestic Mount Umunhum from just about anywhere. That’s why it’s so popular with executives, engineers and even athletes (several Sharks are reported to make their homes here). But today’s market has made the Almaden Valley more accessible.
