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Calif. s only wildfire research center makes scary discovery: This has never happened April 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Researchers from San Jose State University s Fire Weather Lab visited Mount Umunhum on April 2, 2021, to test for fuel-moisture content in the vegetation.SJSU Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center On the second day of April, the skies were clear and the view from atop Mount Umunhum in the South Bay spread across a sea of green shrubs and trees carpeting the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was a beautiful sight, but a team of researchers from San Jose State University s Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center the only wildfire research center in California noticed something wasn t quite right. ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading The SF-set reboot of Kung Fu on The CW flips the classic martial arts show s gender roles Max Gao FacebookTwitterEmail Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen in Kung Fu on The CW.Kailey Schwerman/The CW In a modern reimagining of Ed Spielman’s hit series that starred David Carradine, “Kung Fu” is returning to network television with two unprecedented changes: The lead is a Chinese American woman and the cast is predominantly Asian American, a rarity in the landscape of network television dramas. The gender-flipped reboot chronicles the journey of Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), a young woman who, after going through a quarter-life crisis, decides to drop out of university and take a life-altering journey to a remote Chinese monastery. When Nicky returns to San Francisco three years later, she discovers that her hometown has been overrun with crime and corruption and that the local Chinatown, where her parents Jin (Tzi Ma) ....