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Summer 2026

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Flipping the Bird

The surprising strategy for minimizing precooked food waste.

By Summer Moore Batte

The Whole World in Its Plans
Features

The Whole World in Its Plans

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is designed to catalyze solutions to our most urgent environmental challenges.

by Tracie White

Dialogue — July 2022
Departments

Dialogue — July 2022

For Keeps
Departments

For Keeps

Oddly Enough
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Oddly Enough

A frosh seminar explores the uses of randomness.

by Jill Patton

Books on Tape Founder Took a Novel Approach
Farewells

Books on Tape Founder Took a Novel Approach

Duvall Hecht, ’52, MA ’60

by Kali Shiloh

Stanford’s Pioneering Endowment Investor
Farewells

Stanford’s Pioneering Endowment Investor

Laurance Hoagland Jr., ’58

by Kali Shiloh

‘Real Life Is Inside of You’
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‘Real Life Is Inside of You’

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

by Kali Shiloh

Random? By Chance? Improbable?
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Random? By Chance? Improbable?

A philosophy professor rolls out some related concepts.

by Thomas Icard

So That Happened
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So That Happened

Alumni share stories of chance and circumstance.

Math Magic
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Math Magic

With a random approach, two young scholars solve a tricky problem in one night.

by Tracie White