July 2022

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Unlikely Stories

An alum profile, selected at random. An issue of the Daily, drawn from a bowl. A tale of chaos and weather. Go ahead, pick a door.

Features

The Whole World in Its Plans

Oddly Enough

So That Happened

Math Magic

‘Always Interested in His Voice Being Heard’

Who Lives, Who Dies

Point of Pride

The Devil’s in the Data

The Mood-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Cloudy with a Chance of Chaos

‘Like God Would Play Marbles’

The Wayback Machine

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Essays
Essays

Keep the Change

On leaving a big life decision up to chance.

by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

All Right Now
All Right Now

Every Body Is a Canvas

How one artist explores our insides.

by Evan Peng

All Right Now

Meet Emma Wong

Singer-songwriter from Hong Kong goes for global and local.

by Tracie White

All Right Now

The Ticker — July 2022

Stanford people in the news and on the move.

All Right Now

Fascinated

Each summer, a professor fashions craft supplies into top style statements.

by Kali Shiloh

All Right Now

‘Real Life Is Inside of You’

The classes of 2020 and 2022 receive wise words on a rare double-ceremony weekend.

by Kali Shiloh

Columns
Columns

A School for the Future

With the creation of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the university confronts the greatest issue of the 21st century.

by Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Columns

What Are The Odds

One coin, two covers and a randomized approach.

by Kathy Zonana

Departments
Departments

Dialogue — July 2022
Departments

For Keeps
Departments

Biblio File: What to Read Now — July 2022

New releases that inspire us.

Departments

Book Review: All You Can Read

New and Notable

by Joel Stein

Farewells
Farewells

Stanford’s Pioneering Endowment Investor

Laurance Hoagland Jr., ’58

by Kali Shiloh

Farewells

Books on Tape Founder Took a Novel Approach

Duvall Hecht, ’52, MA ’60

by Kali Shiloh

Farewells

Obituaries — July 2022