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Recent studies have shown that these deaths from window crashes may account for 1 to 5 percent of all bird deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers don’t include other urban threats to birds, including air pollution, habitat loss, artificial lights (which confuse birds), traffic and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no doubt that birds colliding with buildings is a concern,” said Alicia King, a spokeswoman for U.S. Fish and Wildlife. “In urban areas, it’s an issue, especially ones considered flyways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Going to the Birds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 400 bird species can be found at times in the Bay Area, which falls along the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Flyway\">Pacific Flyway\u003c/a>, a migratory path for birds stretching from Alaska to Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, a few Bay Area cities have implemented bird-friendly building policies. San Francisco started strict regulations in 2011, followed by Oakland last year and Sunnyvale this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The focus on birds is part of a shift within the sustainability movement, which emphasizes revamping consumption and energy to include nature – something Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scvas.org/index.php\">Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/a>, hopes will catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An emphasis on birds would really bring back a lot of other elements of natural ecosystems, like the plants that the birds like,” she said. “If you have birds, you have a really healthy ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Birds eat insects, help pollinate plants and disperse seeds in a mutualistic relationship. 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The serene environment in Cupertino is meant to reflect Apple’s principles of “innovation, ease of use and beauty,” Apple said in a project description filed for approval by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birds and Corporate Values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By integrating nature within their Silicon Valley campuses, the companies are also creating brick-and-mortar monuments that represent what they say are their company values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t call it restoration because it really is a different creation,” Kleinhaus said. “It’s ‘how do we bring nature into our campuses to create a more harmonious campus?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuit has this core value of owning your responsibilities,” said Michael Gulasch, real estate director of Intuit, based in Mountain View. “We are part of this community, we need to be good citizens, it’s our responsibility to own the habitat concerns and wildlife concerns because we (abut) right adjacent to the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bird element is a natural extension of Intuit’s ideas about sustainability and community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, you might ask, what about that well-known local tech company that has a bird as its icon? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/03/20140324science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Apollo-7-astronauts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15579 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Apollo-7-astronauts.jpg\" alt=\"The Apollo 7 crew, from left to right: Command Module pilot, Donn F. Eisele, Commander, Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Lunar Module pilot, Walter Cunningham. (NASA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1968, two members of the Apollo 7 crew developed head colds. Crankiness ensued. Crew members, from the left, are Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists at NASA’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/#.UyzQ_oXDX_k\">Ames Research Center\u003c/a> in Mountain View are sending fruit flies (among other creatures) up to the International Space Station, hoping to better predict some of the physical challenges that may befall astronauts when, sometime after 2030, NASA sends up the first human mission to Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA has already learned some of these lessons the hard way. For instance: Having a head cold in space is no picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/9400_transform-288x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15581 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/9400_transform-288x162.jpg\" alt=\"In the first live television transmission from space, astronauts Don Eisele and Walter Schirra Jr. deliver a message to viewers. (NASA)\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the first live television transmission from space, astronauts Donn F. Eisele and Walter M. Schirra Jr. deliver a message to viewers. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The First Colds in Space\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1968, NASA needed some good press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year before had been a disaster. All three crew members of the Apollo 1 Mission had died in a cabin fire before the spaceship even launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If NASA was going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it needed to win back public confidence in the program. And it would do so on live television during the Apollo 7 mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968, with a plan to bring three astronauts safely into Earth’s orbit, and then back home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time, Americans got to see what astronauts looked like floating around in zero gravity. On live television, they watched Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham eat meals, bat a lens cap around the cabin and send radio reports to ground control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Wally took one Actifed,” Cunningham reported. “He feels fine; he’s just got a little stuffy nose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham and Schirra indeed had head colds, and the stuffy noses turned out not to be such a “little” thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The astronauts had trouble sleeping. They worried about their eardrums rupturing. Their interactions with ground control became testy, particularly on the subject of whether or not they would wear helmets upon reentry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Policy: Quarantine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So after Apollo 7, NASA set a new policy: Astronauts would now be quarantined before each launch to make sure they’re healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the quarantine isn’t a guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA astronaut \u003ca href=\"http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/barratt-mr.html\">Mike Barratt\u003c/a> caught a cold during his six-month stay on the International Space Station in 2009. “It was probably the most miserable cold I’ve ever had,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15591\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15591 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"The International Space Station. (NASA)\" width=\"294\" height=\"188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Space Station. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot? Barratt hadn’t either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth, Barratt said, “where you’d have a little gravity to help you drain things, all that was absent there. Everything kind of pools where it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Barratt invented a zero-gravity nose-blowing technique, involving swinging his body in an arc as his hands clasped a metal handrail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move created a sort of artificial gravity, Barratt said, propelling mucus out of his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do what you gotta do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding Work-Arounds in Zero Gravity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans evolved with gravity. Take it away and we start looking for work-arounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these are well known. For instance: in space, muscles atrophy, especially in the legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the waist up, they look strong,” Barratt said, describing how this affects humans. “From the waist down they look more like Kermit the Frog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So astronauts spend an enormous amount of time exercising—two or three hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the eyes. No one’s quite sure why, but over the course of a mission, some astronauts report problems with both nearsightedness and distance vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/marshburn-th.html\">Tom Marshburn\u003c/a>, who has completed two missions to the International Space Station as a space surgeon, said he’s learned to bring multiple pairs of eyeglasses to suit his changing vision while in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 285px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Drosophila_SingleFly.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15584 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Drosophila_SingleFly.jpg\" alt=\"A single drosophila, or fruit fly. (Dominic Hart/NASA)\" width=\"285\" height=\"241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A single drosophila, or fruit fly. (Dominic Hart/NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only solution we have right now,” Marshburn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mars Mission Brings Higher Stakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is minor stuff on the International Space Station, a mere two-day trip from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consider that by 2030, NASA wants to start sending people to Mars and back—a mission that could last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anticipating the ensuing physical problems of such a mission is the job of scientists like \u003ca href=\"http://women.nasa.gov/sharmila-bhattacharya-2/\">Sharmila Bhattacharya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battacharya is a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, where she runs a lab in the Space Biosciences Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research focuses on fruit flies—Drosophila melanogaster—and is part of a major NASA effort to send bugs (including beetles, worms, bees and spiders) up to the International Space Station to see how space affects their biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, Bhattacharya plans to travel to Florida to watch the lift-off for the first of 2014’s three scheduled fruit fly missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15586\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/ACD14-0023-028-1024x982.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15586 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/ACD14-0023-028-1024x982.jpg\" alt=\"Ames researchers Curran Reddy and Sharmila Bhattacharya are studying the effects of zero gravity on fruit flies' cardiovascular systems. (Dominic Hart/NASA)\" width=\"301\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ames researchers Curran Reddy and Sharmila Bhattacharya are studying cardiovascular health on fruit flies in space.(Dominic Hart/NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the demise of the NASA’s space shuttle program, the agency has relied on private contractors—specifically Tesla founder Elon Musk’s company SpaceX—to carry astronauts and science experiments to the International Space Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhattacharya’s launch, \u003ca href=\"http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/03/11/upcoming-mission-falcon-9-and-dragon-launching-space-station\">scheduled for March 30 or April 2\u003c/a>, will be the first effort to see how zero gravity affects the structure and function of the drosophila’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/heart-flies-spacex-3/\">cardiovascular system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weaker Flies, Stronger Microbes\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhattacharya says one of the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019151/\">intriguing discoveries\u003c/a> so far has to do with the flies’ white blood cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"size-medium wp-image-15586\">“There are changes in the distribution of blood cells,” says Bhattacharya. “And, of course, blood cells are critical to immune function.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the flies’ immune systems appear to become weaker in space, certain microbes—the kinds that might make a fruit fly sick—actually get stronger. Bhattacharya says it’s potentially a deadly combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Couple increased virulence of a pathogen with the decremented immune system of the host,” she said, “and that could be a problem for long-term space flight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battacharya will test that theory in fruit flies on a mission next fall. She says she expects to have results by late 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA astronauts I talked to said they believe all these problems can be overcome with a little ingenuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nAt some point on the mission to Mars the view of Earth will disappear, and it will be ‘just the blackness of space and stars outside the window.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But there are some challenges that cannot be researched in advance. Take, for example, the psychological challenge of humanity’s longest expedition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The View Back Home \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshburn said when astronauts have free time on the International Space Station, they tend to congregate in the cupola, a place that offers unparalleled views of Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge boost to look out the window at our planet while we orbit the space station,” he said. “To see it in all its glory and its beauty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This view is a big reason astronauts go into space in the first place. And at some point during that trip to Mars, it will disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in our two million-plus years of existence, humans will lose that visual tether to the place we all come from. A period of time when, Marshburn said, the view will be “just the blackness of space and stars outside the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be thrilling, says Marshburn. 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On live television, they watched Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr. and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham eat meals, bat a lens cap around the cabin and send radio reports to ground control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Wally took one Actifed,” Cunningham reported. “He feels fine; he’s just got a little stuffy nose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham and Schirra indeed had head colds, and the stuffy noses turned out not to be such a “little” thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The astronauts had trouble sleeping. They worried about their eardrums rupturing. Their interactions with ground control became testy, particularly on the subject of whether or not they would wear helmets upon reentry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Policy: Quarantine\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So after Apollo 7, NASA set a new policy: Astronauts would now be quarantined before each launch to make sure they’re healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the quarantine isn’t a guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA astronaut \u003ca href=\"http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/barratt-mr.html\">Mike Barratt\u003c/a> caught a cold during his six-month stay on the International Space Station in 2009. “It was probably the most miserable cold I’ve ever had,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15591\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15591 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"The International Space Station. (NASA)\" width=\"294\" height=\"188\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Space Station. (NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps you’ve never considered the effect of zero gravity on snot? Barratt hadn’t either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth, Barratt said, “where you’d have a little gravity to help you drain things, all that was absent there. Everything kind of pools where it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Barratt invented a zero-gravity nose-blowing technique, involving swinging his body in an arc as his hands clasped a metal handrail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move created a sort of artificial gravity, Barratt said, propelling mucus out of his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do what you gotta do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding Work-Arounds in Zero Gravity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans evolved with gravity. Take it away and we start looking for work-arounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these are well known. For instance: in space, muscles atrophy, especially in the legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the waist up, they look strong,” Barratt said, describing how this affects humans. “From the waist down they look more like Kermit the Frog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So astronauts spend an enormous amount of time exercising—two or three hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the eyes. No one’s quite sure why, but over the course of a mission, some astronauts report problems with both nearsightedness and distance vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/marshburn-th.html\">Tom Marshburn\u003c/a>, who has completed two missions to the International Space Station as a space surgeon, said he’s learned to bring multiple pairs of eyeglasses to suit his changing vision while in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 285px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Drosophila_SingleFly.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15584 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/Drosophila_SingleFly.jpg\" alt=\"A single drosophila, or fruit fly. (Dominic Hart/NASA)\" width=\"285\" height=\"241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A single drosophila, or fruit fly. (Dominic Hart/NASA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only solution we have right now,” Marshburn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mars Mission Brings Higher Stakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is minor stuff on the International Space Station, a mere two-day trip from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consider that by 2030, NASA wants to start sending people to Mars and back—a mission that could last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anticipating the ensuing physical problems of such a mission is the job of scientists like \u003ca href=\"http://women.nasa.gov/sharmila-bhattacharya-2/\">Sharmila Bhattacharya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battacharya is a scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, where she runs a lab in the Space Biosciences Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her research focuses on fruit flies—Drosophila melanogaster—and is part of a major NASA effort to send bugs (including beetles, worms, bees and spiders) up to the International Space Station to see how space affects their biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, Bhattacharya plans to travel to Florida to watch the lift-off for the first of 2014’s three scheduled fruit fly missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_15586\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 301px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/ACD14-0023-028-1024x982.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15586 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/03/ACD14-0023-028-1024x982.jpg\" alt=\"Ames researchers Curran Reddy and Sharmila Bhattacharya are studying the effects of zero gravity on fruit flies' cardiovascular systems. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/salinascoding.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/salinascoding-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"salinascoding\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAlonso Mendoza, 21, is one of 32 students enrolled in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/20/from-fields-to-computer-science/\" target=\"_blank\">accelerated computer science degree program\u003c/a> offered through Hartnell Community College and California State University, Monterey Bay. Mendoza stands outside his home on the east side of Salinas. He hopes a computer science degree will lift himself and his family away from a life of field work. (Ana Tintocalis/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Dinosaur.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Dinosaur-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nDinosaurs may be long extinct, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/20/how-quirky-is-berkeley-check-out-these-dinosaurs/\" target=\"_blank\">they survive in Berkeley front yards\u003c/a>, where small, medium or big, they stand as declarations of individualism in a city of individualists. (Tom Dalzell/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/skateboarding-physics2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130088\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/skateboarding-physics2-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"skateboarding-physics2\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMichael Totten, an 18-year-old freshman at Contra Costa College, has been skateboarding since the age of 3. The Richmond Public Library hosted an event on Thursday, March 20, to \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/03/20/skateboarding-event-teaches-kids-about-physics-at-nicholl-park/\" target=\"_blank\">connect kids to the physics \u003c/a>of skateboarding. “Even though they don’t traditionally think of science as something that’s fun that they like to do, they’re all scientists when they skateboard,” said teen librarian and event organizer Angela Cox. A van on loan from the San Francisco Exploratorium explains concepts like center of gravity, wheel hardness and centrifugal force. (Sukey Lewis/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/skateboards.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/skateboards-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"skateboards\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\"All these kids are really into skateboarding, but they don't know all the intricacies, the engineering and mathematics, that go along with the thing they love to do,\" the van's creator, Eric Dimond, explained to ESPN last June.\"If we bring up these concepts like durometer, or friction, or momentum, those are, like, school terms. But if we can associate those things with something that they love, they're more engaged with it.\" (Sukey Lewis/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Telegraph-food-truck.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/Telegraph-food-truck-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Telegraph-food-truck\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMonday, March 17, saw the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/17/off-the-grid-pulls-plug-on-southside-berkeley-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Off The Grid Southside Berkeley food truck market\u003c/a>, which has been taking place once a week there since it launched in July 2012. This leaves Berkeley with just one Off The Grid market, at the North Berkeley BART station. 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And it seems to only be getting worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDI — not to be confused with an EMF, an IED or the EDD — is an electronic display of insensitivity. Apparently, this kind of social abomination is everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”701ac8e6f09934a6cbae36320a35816d”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a research study of 2,025 people that was released on Wednesday, nine out of 10 participants said that, at least once a week, friends or relatives stop paying attention to them because they’d rather check out what’s happening on their digital devices. Eighty-nine percent report damaged relationships as a result of insensitive or inappropriate use of technology, and one in four say that an EDI has resulted in a serious rift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 87 percent of those surveyed maintain that EDIs are worse and more common today that they were just a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study of digital divisiveness was conducted and paid for by \u003ca href=\"http://www.vitalsmarts.com\">VitalSmarts\u003c/a>, a company in Utah focused on corporate training and leadership development; the researchers coined the term EDI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There appears to be a big gap between theory and practice: More than 90 percent of respondents agreed that people should not check their social media profiles or answer texts while they’re driving, in church or school, at the dinner table or during a customer service interaction. And yet the study found that 93 percent regularly witnessed someone committing an EDI while driving, 67 percent at the dinner table, 52 percent during a customer service interaction, 35 percent at church and 25 percent at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Judging by the study, it seems that things are out of control and humans are on the losing side of the digital divide.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Judging by the study, it seems that things are out of control and humans are on the losing side of the digital divide. One in three people said they cope with an EDI by ignoring it – in some cases because they figure it will be over soon or don’t want to offend the oaf who’s committing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when it’s a close relationship, people are still wimps about speaking up. The survey said nearly two out of three people don’t have a clue “how to effectively reduce the impact of others’ inappropriate use of technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how do you compete with a device? It’s possible that you can’t because — given how people behave when they’re walking down the street, taking public transit or hanging out in a cafe — the device will almost always win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Predictably, however, the co-founders of VitalSmarts, who also wrote a New York Times best-seller called “Crucial Conversations,” have some suggestions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Take the high road and assume that people have the best intentions and their EDIs are urgent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Set specific boundaries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Describe the consequences of an EDI rather than disparage the offender’s moral character.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Don’t measure your influence by whether people comply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If nothing else works, let it go and move on.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>When asked if he ever commits an EDI, Joseph Grenny, one of the researchers and a co-author of “Crucial Conversations,” told KQED: “Yes. 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I’ve begun to use a mantra — ‘this won’t feel good’ — to remind myself that addictive connection to technology is costing me peace and connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The behavior, he said, is a result of intentional design — sound engineering and brain science have influenced designs that trigger impulsive responses in us.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">EDI is a result of intentional design — sound engineering and brain science have influenced designs that trigger impulsive responses in us.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This is why the only way out is greater consciousness of consequences,” Grenny said. “Or shutting the bloody things off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those surveyed were asked for the most dramatic, obnoxious or funny examples of an EDI that they had experienced. 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While educators and lawmakers in California debate whether programming belongs in the classroom, a handful of startups and investors in Oakland have decided it's time for local teenagers to code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hacking the Hackathon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the nonprofit Hidden Genius Project, the goal is to see the diversity of the East Bay eventually reflected in the high-tech sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school sophomore Johnnel White takes a train, a bus and a long walk to get from his home in south Vallejo to coding classes at Hidden Genius’ downtown Oakland location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to change my life instead of being in a ghetto every day, growing up around people smoking and doing drugs,” White says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, White had a chance to test his growing knowledge during a hackathon for “Black Achievement.” Teams of teenagers and adult mentors spent the weekend at a local incubator in Oakland, hacking away at apps to deal with their own everyday problems -- from what to eat to whether to show up to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d33ceecaf04a08b6ad4253e47730fa1f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White's team is building a fitness app with a cartoon bird that gets thinner the more the user exercises. His parents are not here and, he says, he had to hustle them to get the train fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imani Saint-Jean is one of several moms in the room. She isn't just giving moral support. She realizes she needs coding skills herself to survive in the job market, so when she enrolled her teenage daughter in another coding program, Black Girls Code, she started doing the take-home quizzes, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the applications or software for coding were really technical and hard to decode for an adult, and so I went straight to youth-targeted programs,” Saint-Jean says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the weekend, each team pitches their ideas for new software and mobile apps to a panel of judges and a community audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White takes the mic and demonstrates a prototype of his team’s fitness app, with sample videos of himself and his teammates doing jumping jacks and other exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another team wants to build a social networking app for black private school students. San Leandro eighth-grader George Hofstetter says he got the idea from his own experience as one of the few black students at a private middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s predominantly white,” Hofstetter says. “There’s not as many African Americans in private schools as there are in public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129686\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9159_DSC_9645-lpr-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Johnnel White pitches his app to a panel of judges and community audience. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnnel White pitches his app to a panel of judges and community audience. 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He imagines a simple app to help women who may be getting harassed on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With one swipe you can notify everyone who you love that's on a prearranged list,” Priforce imagines. “And it sends an SMS to them and lets them know where you're at and that you feel unsafe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hackathon funder Mitch Kapor is investing in Oakland the way other venture capitalists are investing in incubators abroad. His foundation has put over $1 million into local startups this last year alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been looking around corners,” Kapor says. His friends on Sand Hill Road might not get it yet, but Kapor says the East Bay is full of untapped potential and he’ll be the first to tap it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got started in personal computers in 1978, nobody took them seriously, and when I started looking at investing in Internet companies in 1993, nobody took it seriously,” says Kapor. “So this really isn’t any different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129690\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-129690\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9076_DSC_9653-lpr-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"The panel of judges listens as each hackathon group presents their idea. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The panel of judges listens as each hackathon group presents their idea. 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They figured that this kind of information could be extremely sensitive, but they didn’t expect to find much evidence one way or the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The degree of sensitivity among contacts took us aback,” study co-author Jonathan Mayer wrote on his blog, “Web Policy,” where the \u003ca href=\"http://webpolicy.org/2014/03/12/metaphone-the-sensitivity-of-telephone-metadata/\">research findings\u003c/a> were published Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Participants had calls with Alcoholics Anonymous, gun stores, NARAL Pro-Choice, labor unions, divorce lawyers, sexually transmitted disease clinics, a Canadian import pharmacy, strip clubs, and much more,” Mayer reported. “This was not a hypothetical parade of horribles. These were simple inferences, about real phone users, that could trivially be made on a large scale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phone interview, Mayer said: “One of the arguments that has cropped up again and again in the phone metadata privacy debate is, ‘What’s the big deal? It’s just phone numbers.’ And we thought, ‘OK, let’s take a look at how hard it is to take a phone number and map to it to an individual or business or professional service.' We found it was very, very easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In only three months, Mayer and co-author Patrick Mutchler ferreted out an amazing amount of information about the 546 participants in their study — all volunteers who ran the MetaPhone app on their Android smartphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two grad students identified the participants’ contacts by matching phone numbers against Yelp and Google Place directories to see who was receiving calls. The participants contacted 33,688 unique numbers. Of those, 18 percent -- or 6,107 -- were identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'You Don't Need a Ph.D. to Figure This Out'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The computer scientists analyzed individual calls to numbers that could be deemed sensitive — anything a person might not want to be public, such as political or religious affiliation, health status, gun ownership or finances. They created 11 sensitive categories in the study, and then they analyzed patterns of calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One participant, for example, communicated with multiple local neurology groups, a specialty pharmacy, a rare-condition management service and a hotline for a pharmaceutical used only to treat relapsing multiple sclerosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need a Ph.D. in computer science to figure out what’s going on there,” said Mayer, 27, who got a law degree from Stanford last year and now lives in San Francisco. He has been working on his doctorate for more than four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer and Mutchler used the crowdsourced data to answer some questions that have acquired fresh urgency since \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/multimedia/timeline-edward-snowden-revelations.html\">revelations of National Security Agency surveillance\u003c/a>, especially collection of phone records, began surfacing last June. They wanted to know two main things, Mayer wrote: Is it easy to draw sensitive inferences from phone metadata? How often do people conduct sensitive matters by phone?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The researchers were surprised by their ability to draw inferences about such a large number of people and over such a short window of phone records.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We were motivated by the ongoing debate about this metadata held by the NSA and telecommunications companies and questions about under what conditions should this data be able to be looked at, analyzed, sold, aggregated and so on,” Mayer said. “Much of that debate depends on factual underpinnings, about what the privacy properties of this data look like. Patrick and I have been attempting to understand those privacy properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer said he and Mutchler succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in terms of the number and diversity of participants, who lived all over the country and came from various walks of life, with a mix of jobs and political perspectives. But he said the group was not statistically representative because volunteers had to have an Android phone and a Facebook account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was surprised, he said, by his ability to draw inferences about such a large number of people and over such a short window of phone records. By comparison, he said, the NSA appears to retain such records for about five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to draw these sorts of inferences, it’s strongly indicative of the government’s ability to draw sensitive inferences about large numbers of Americans,” Mayer said. “One of the great sources of concern here is that what used to take some significant shoe leather to infer now can be done in a very automated fashion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study starts out by mentioning that President Obama has stressed that the NSA is \"not looking at content,\" that Sen. 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Just wink to snap a photo, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's actually not distracting, and it allows you -- rather than looking down at your phone, you're looking up and you're engaging with the world around you,” Dale said. “And it was specifically designed to do that. To get you the technology you need, just when you need it, but then to get out of your way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But West Virginia Delegate Howell says the high-tech masterminds lack common sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have they driven on mountain roads in West Virginia where you've got one 15-mph turn after another one, where you really need to be concentrating on what you're doing? I wonder if they understand the difference between rural driving and wearing a product in the city where you're riding on a bus or in the subway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Test drive\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howell and other lawmakers protesting Glass say they have never tried it. 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