Palo Alto

Instead of cycling with the seasons, mining moved linearly, exponentially, cumulatively. There is no such thing as enough gold.

At New Almaden we can see the steps in the proletarianization dance: the alienation of indigenous and peasant populations from the land, the formal establishment of white racial rule, scientific management continually optimizing for maximum profits, looming soldiers. It all adds up to a laboring class with no legal way to reproduce their lives exce

mutualistic relationship of belonging between humans and the rest of the ecology.

If, as I have been convinced, the point of life and the meaning of freedom is to make something with what the world makes of you, then it’s necessary to locate those places where history reaches through your self and sticks you to the board.

Historian Albert L. Hurtado describes the impact of Sutter on the region, in particular the bell he used to summon Indians to work: Sutter’s bell heralded the arrival of a modern sense of time in the Sacramento Valley… Now, for at least part of their lives, some Indians were wedded to a concept that proclaimed that time was limited and that it had

After all, the only way for Stanford to have height records for its incoming freshmen was to ask on the application, which the school did into the 1980s.

They wanted to sell as much as possible at as high a price as possible. But if all the producers in a marketplace try to grow and harvest as much as possible, they will oversupply the market, tank the price, and kill their profits. If a group of producers agree to restrain output in order to maintain a profitable level of scarcity, on the other han

In their report, Intelligence Tests and School Reorganization, Terman called for breaking classes into five tracks (gifted, bright, average, slow, and special—echoing the A–E soldier ranking) based on ability, so that America might get the most out of its children.

What haunts are the kinds of large historical crimes that, once committed, can never truly be set right.