Lindsey J. Smith
SanFrancisco Magazine
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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‘Big Philanthropy Is an Exercise of Power’
Stanford ethicist Rob Reich on why philanthropy perpetuates inequality, accountability as a negative, and the problem with praising big donors. → Read More
The Couple That Launched a Thousand Artists
From a pottery school to a B&B to a bakery, Marcia and Bruce McDougal have forged a 55-year partnership in creation. → Read More
Road-Tripping Through the Crunchy, Swanky, Thoroughly Reborn North Coast
Road-Tripping Through the Crunchy, Swanky, Thoroughly Reborn North Coast → Read More
The Craft of Draft
How one bartender sped up the cocktail and reshaped an industry. → Read More
A Six-Course Comeback After the North Bay Fires
Breaking bread for fire victims at a 504-foot-long table. → Read More
Tax The Land, Save The People
One man’s quixotic—but totally serious—quest to upend the tax system, rebalance wealth, and cure all of our social ills. → Read More
The Three Percent Conundrum: Are 22,500 People in San Francisco Really Using Injection Drugs?
The Three Percent Conundrum: Are 22,500 People in San Francisco Really Using Injection Drugs? → Read More
The Miracle Drug That Has Pulled Thousands of Overdose Victims Back from the Brink
The Miracle Drug That Has Pulled Thousands of Overdose Victims Back from the Brink → Read More
A Safe Place to Shoot Up
San Francisco is considering opening the United States’ first legal space for people to inject drugs. Can the city pass the compassion test again? → Read More
To Make This Land Home Again
After a catastrophic wildfire, what happens to seven million burned trees? And what happens to the people who lived on that land? → Read More
Even the basics of climate change are still being debated in the 2016 election
Between one Trump tweet after another and inquests into Hillary Clinton’s emails, there’s been little attention paid to either party’s environmental policies. Yet, with devastating flooding in... → Read More
Cook’s Science demystifies the magic of good cooking
Cook’s Science, a new website from America’s Test Kitchen, launched at the end of July, and has rapidly become excellent lunch-break material. Like all brands under the America’s Test Kitchen... → Read More
Uber's new policy fines riders who are two minutes late
Ride-sharing giant Uber is piloting a new cancellation policy in New York City, New Jersey, Phoenix, and Dallas, TechCrunch reported. The policy reduces the amount of time riders have to cancel... → Read More
Meet the Fixers Collective: the geeks who are fixing iPhones for free
It was approaching 10:00 pm on a Wednesday, but dozens of people were crowded around several long wooden tables in the center of a cluttered workshop in Chelsea. Some stared intently at lines of... → Read More
Big data knows if you're pregnant
Employers concerned with rising costs of health care are turning to wellness firms like Castlight Health or Welltok to use big data to predict employee health needs, reported The Wall Street... → Read More
Donald Trump on Apple encryption battle: 'Who do they think they are?'
The FBI is engaged in a heated battle with Apple, demanding the tech giant unlock the cellphone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. So far, Apple CEO Tim Cook has refused, and he even published a... → Read More
Twitter’s earnings report shows its user base is shrinking
It’s a big day for Twitter. While still scrambling to recover from the late-January departure of four key execs, the company began rolling out their controversial algorithmic timeline today, and,... → Read More