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Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley is a freelance writer in Watsonville, Calif.

Ships of Pearl

Secrets of the cephalopods

by Tom Bentley | Monday, March 05, 2018

A Cold Look

Diving deep into Antarctic ecosystems

by Tom Bentley | Monday, June 06, 2016

Learning Curves, Farming Angles

by Tom Bentley | Monday, June 09, 2014

Preserving the Dead

by Tom Bentley | Monday, March 18, 2013

Big Time

by Tom Bentley | Friday, December 06, 2013

Willy Wonka, M.D.

by Tom Bentley | Thursday, March 14, 2013

Megaliths by a Polymath

by Tom Bentley | Monday, June 10, 2013

Sea Hunt, Microscopic Version

by Tom Bentley | Thursday, September 05, 2013

New Hope from Dope

by Tom Bentley | Monday, September 08, 2014

One Small Step Toward Silicon Valley?

by Tom Bentley | Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Riveting

by Tom Bentley | Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Big Man in Tiny Houses

by Tom Bentley | Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Digging Into Dickens

by Tom Bentley | Thursday, January 23, 2014

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”