24 hours with DREAMer Astrid Silva after DACA dies
Frantic messages, emergency meetings, CNN interviews and 'Lord of the Rings'
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Tovin L.
San Francisco, CA, USA
$500 - $1000 / Day
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I'm a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, a current politics contributor for Fortune, and the Hawaii contributing editor for Travel Weekly. My journalism career started in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I survived a bus accident caused by an under-caffeinated conductor and a near drowning provoked by my own stupidity. Since then, I've reported on failing schools in Mississippi, political assassinations in Colombia and the future of the Great Barrier Reef. I've also published work in The Guardian US, U.S. News and World Report, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlantic's CityLab, Noisey by Vice, San Francisco Magazine, Pacific Standard, and Lucky Peach among other publications. Check out my personal website, http://tovinlapan.com, for a more complete portfolio of my work.
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ABP - Improv for Mental Illness
Brandon Chuang was working in a research lab with schizophrenia patients when he learned that he had the disease himself. After some setbacks, Chuang got help and discovered an unexpected treatment for his social anxiety and other symptoms. Now, he is working to help others who cope with mental illness.
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MEET ASTROBEE, NASA’S AUTONOMOUS ROBOT HEADED TO THE ISS
Later this year, NASA will send a new worker to the International Space Station. Astrobee is an autonomous, free-flying robot designed to navigate the ISS, record astronaut activity and serve as a research platform for zero-G robotics experiments. Building a robot meant for space here on Earth has its challenges, but the real challenge for Astrobee might be working with its human overlords.
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MONDO COZMO: “I NEED THAT SONG.”
Mondo Cozmo and Matt Pinfield talk about Cozmo's breakout hit and the moment he thought, '[I'm not] going to be digging holes much longer.'
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FIGHTING BACK AGAINST PARKINSON’S
Individuals struggling with the mysterious, debilitating disease are finding relief in an unlikely place: the boxing gym, where patients battling uncontrollable tremors are transformed into fighters.
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Hollow-grams, or Holla-grams?
New technology lets the dead perform again.
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