On the heels of last weekend’s highly successful CicLAvia Pasadena event, South Pasadena and other neighboring cities are considering staging an event next year dubbed the “Golden Streets Festival” which would mimic CicLAvia. South Pasadena City Council member... More »
Last week, Chevrolet announced that more than a dozen of its 2016 cars and trucks would be compatible with Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto, the tech giants’ competing in-dash interfaces for vehicles that connect to the driver’s smartphone. Considerin... More »
In June 2015, Mars will swing almost directly behind the sun from Earth’s perspective, and this celestial geometry will lead to diminished communications with spacecraft at Mars. The arrangement of the sun between Earth and Mars is called Mars solar conjunctio... More »
Alumnae Tiana Sanders, already inducted into the Pasadena City College Sports Hall of Fame in 2011, has been chosen to be part of the 2016 class of the California Community College Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (CCCWBCA) Hall of Fame. Like the PCC HOF... More »
Feynman Teaching Award winner Mike Brown has ventured into new fields of instruction: the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, and the “flipped” classroom, which inverts the traditional arrangement of listening to lectures in class and doing assignments at hom... More »
Earlier this year, an elite group of scientists and ethicists—including Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, president emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech—convened in Napa, California, to discuss the scientific, medical, l... More »
On May 29, 2015, the entire 8th Grade class of Pasadena Waldorf School turned one of the school’s annual rite of passage events, the 8th Grade sleepover in the school’s historic Scripps Hall, into something even more meaningful this year. The students used thi... More »
The Pasadena City Council on June 1, 2015 adopted the City’s Level 2 Water Supply Shortage Plan requiring additional mandatory water restrictions for residents and businesses effective immediately due to the severe drought in California. The Council action to ... More »
Data collected by JPL’s Alice instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal that electrons close to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — not photons from the sun, as had been believed — cause the rapid breakup of water and... More »
Facing new State mandates and restrictions from a major water supplier, the Metropolitan Water District, the Pasadena City Council approved Level 2 Water Shortage Plan restrictions in its Monday night meeting. Pasadena’s Level 2 Water Shortage Plan, under City... More »
The Assembly has overwhelmingly approved legislation authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) that would give California seniors a break on property taxes when they sell their home. Holden’s AB 1378 would allow those over age 55 or the disabled to ... More »
The Assembly today unanimously approved Assemblymember Chris Holden’s (D-Pasadena) measure to reduce barriers to higher education. The bill would create a partnership between high schools and community colleges to allow students to take college-level courses a... More »
