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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit Heal the Bay, a nonprofit dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy, and clean. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue to treat and defeat childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. 12) Heal the Bay :: shop.healthebay.org. Jewelry & Accessories.

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OK Goes its own way

Fast Company Tech

Artists have given way to content creators that churn out a steady stream of low-lift production to appease algorithms more than Facebook shares. With little more guiding the decision than artistic license, OK Go has decided that the ambitious videos it creates will still be ambitious. The initial melody came from Nordwind.

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Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books

Fast Company Tech

A Los Angeles city councilman holding horror and crime comics, purchased ca. 1954 [Photo: Los Angeles Daily News/Wiki Commons] How Comics got a bad name Comics first emerged in the early 1900s, when newspapers published humorous serialized comic strips. Will kids ever make the leap to more traditional prose?

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Meet the judges for the 2025 Innovation by Design awards

Fast Company Tech

Ryan McClelland, Research Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Center Obsessed with futurism and technology since childhood, Ryan McClelland always aspired to play some part in making the future brighter. Williams serves on the board at Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles, empowerHER and is an advisor to BAWSI (Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative).

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Searching for Susy Thunder

The Verge

In the late 1970s, Los Angeles was a hotbed of telephone culture: you could dial-a-joke, dial-a-horoscope, even dial-a-prayer. She took the bus to the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, an imposing Art Deco tower with cavernous tiled hallways. But she was far from being Los Angeles’ most visible phreaker.

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