The Ethics of Human Experimentation for National Security Purposes

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From Sleepy Lagoon to Zoot Suit: The Irreverent Path of Alice McGrath

The Sleepy Lagoon case of 1942 became one of the most racially charged trials in U.S. history. Twenty-two Mexican American youths, mostly teenagers, were tried en masse for the death of José Díaz, though no witness placed them at the scene and the cause of death was never establi ...  Show more

Bach Lives!

Considered the godfather of A.I. music, UC Santa Cruz professor and composer David Cope, who died in May, 2025, developed the computer program EMI, or Experiments in Musical Intelligence, in the 1980s. It was one of the earliest computer algorithms used to generate classical mus ...  Show more

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