The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Immigrants’ rights advocates are sounding the alarm about noise machines placed high above the parking lot on light poles at a Home Depot in Cypress Park. The machines put out a constant high-pitched ...

Day laborers are calling for Home Depot to remove noise machines from a parking lot at a Cypress Park location that the store says is part of an effort to prevent overnight parking at the business ...