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Arnie Cooper

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I'm a Santa Barbara-based journalist covering travel, the arts, health, science and technology. My writing has appeared in Wired, Popular Science, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal

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Opinion: The California sun finally emerged to greet the summer solstice. Don't get used to it

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By Arnie Cooper
| Yahoo News Verified
The poet James Russell Lowell famously asked, "And what is so rare as a day in June?” The line alludes to the precious quality of the month that marks the transition from spring to summer. Lowell was describing this time of year as one we should all cherish. If only. For those of us living anywhere near the California coast, there is a more fitting and prosaic line: “A persistent onshore flow pattern will keep cooler-than-normal weather in place ...
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Lost In The Supermarket

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By Arnie Cooper
| The Sun Magazine Verified
At mealtimes, most of us pick what sounds good, or what’s quick, or what’s cheap, or maybe what’s good for us. Rarely do we stop to consider where our food comes from, or how our eating habits affect our culture and our environment. In his new book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Penguin Press), journalist Michael Pollan asks what we should eat. How we answer, he says, defines our relationship with the natural world.
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Selections on systemic racism

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By Mark Leviton, Ross Gay, Thacher Schmid Verified, Arnie Cooper
| The Sun Magazine Verified
All in all, this traffic stop the other night amounted to nothing. It was so nothing, in fact — so everyday, so known, so agreed upon, so understood — that I am embarrassed, ashamed even, by the scale of my upset, by the way this nonevent took up residence in my body and wrung me out like a rag. I didn’t even get a ticket, after all. He just asked me some questions — questions I knew (we all knew, didn’t we?) he had before he pulled me over.
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