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...other co-authors, including scientists at Climate Central in Palo Alto and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, emphasize that their velocity maps are oversimplifications - at least so far. For one thing, they do not account for the unique characteristics of various species within a given ecosystem. Some species may have more tolerance for climate changes than others, and may not need to move as quickly; some species may be intolerant of change but unable to move. Other species may be sensitive to changes in rainfall, while still others responsive only to temperature - and changes in these weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climate Change: How Fast Is the Earth Shifting? | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

Ronald Davis, the chief of police in East Palo Alto, Calif., and former captain of the Oakland Police Department, said the “code of silence is not a sinister plot—that’s what makes it so dangerous.” He said officers fear that telling the truth about colleagues’ misdeeds will harm their careers, and he tries to encourage openness. “Police solidarity,” he said, comes from a “we versus them mentality”, which he agreed leads...

Author: By Maria Shen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Raises Police Controversy | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...rapidly growing demographic of constantly connected individuals with scant patience for traditional media is emerging in society. According to the Radicanti Group, a Palo Alto-based market research firm, there will be roughly 139 million wireless e-mail users by the end of 2009, a figure that will rise by an average annual rate of 68 percent until there are one billion users by 2013. True, these data have nothing to say about the number of books these users read in a year or about the way in which they read. Yet they nevertheless sketch an outline of a burgeoning...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: A Look at the Vook | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

Tight end Blake Barker, the top high school football recruit in Massachusetts, decommitted from the Palo Alto, Calif. school on Oct. 16 and verbally declared his allegiance to the Crimson ranks...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lands Top Tight End Recruit, Topping Stanford | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Palo Alto native’s friends from home welcomed those in attendance to the “Ariel Party,” telling everyone that Shaker had said that if she never got married she would just have a big party and call it the “Ariel Party...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Family, Friends Remember Senior Ariel Shaker | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

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