Long Stories
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San Diego’s Role in Solving the Plastic Problem
From supercomputers to compostable cutlery, San Diegans and local tech are helping find innovative solutions to the growing global plastic problem.
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How Blue Tech Blew Up
Follow the rise of the blue tech industry in San Diego from 1903 to today
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Inside WD-40’s Slick New Headquarters
The company’s homey new digs in Scripps Ranch pays homage to its past and the industries that made it a success
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Elusive Diseases and the San Diego Scientists Hunting for a Cure
Nature has come up with millions of ways to get us sick. Luckily, scientists in San Diego County’s thriving life sciences and biotech sectors are on the case
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A Timeline of Little Italy’s Big Growth
How the neighborhood went from a small fishing colony to the largest Little Italy in the country
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Inside San Diego’s Real Estate Boom
A look at the biggest upcoming projects, the people behind them, and the possible impacts
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CRISPR Will Change Our Lives
All that’s possible with the go-to gene editing technique, plus the ethical concerns surrounding it
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“It’s Perfect”: How a Local Snack Company Made it Big
San Diego-based Perfect Bar went from door-to-door sales to one of the best-selling nutrition bars in the country
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What Have We Learned? Rethinking Education in the Digital Age
We asked six local experts what is and isn’t working in education today and what’s on the horizon
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The Peculiar History Behind Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap
How the Vista-based company’s age-old recipe has innovated the business of getting clean
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Is San Diego a Creative City?
Does San Diego think differently and do cool things? We asked a handful of local insiders
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What Really Happens to Your Garbage When it Leaves Your Curbside?
We visited Miramar Landfill and learned it’s a site of engineering magic
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A San Diego Company is Leading the Way in a New Frontier In Farming
Ascus gives animal nutrition a bacterial makeover
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Qualcomm’s Signal of Hope
San Diego tech giant’s social responsibility program gives back on a global scale
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Are Young Techies Really Fleeing SD for the Bay Area?
We took a closer look and crunched the numbers
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Is a Cancer Breakthrough Living at the Bottom of the Sea?
Eduardo Esquenazi and Sirenas explore the ocean for cures to human diseases
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Full STEAM Ahead: Kids Who Code
How local schools and companies are getting children to enjoy science, technology, engineering and math
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How to Survive a Rare Disease
These parents went to extreme lengths—even getting a PhD—to find a cure for their child’s illness
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What’s It Like to Be the CEO of the Smartest Company in the World?
We went to Illumina’s headquarters to find out
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“Love Us or Hate Us, but Don’t Be Indifferent”
A Q&A with San Diego’s most controversial restaurateur
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Tip Sheet: Upgrade Your Beach Read
A list of 19 innovative people, places, and things in San Diego
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