Good morning! Mixed clouds and sun today: there was a shooting on the No. 49 bus, and also a science fair with a hundred over-excited middle schoolers. But if you’d like to rant about the total collapse of the city, we’ve got an an app for that.
Does the five second rule actually work? Does your heart rate change when youโre watching a horror movie? Does Diet Coke explode crazier than Coke? Last week at Buena Vista Horace Mannโs science fair, about 100 middle schoolers proudly presented tri-fold poster boards on their experiments. โWith the whole garden thing, this yearโs been eventful,โ said one parent, referring to the arsenic and lead detected in the schoolโs garden and water in December.
Explosions were a strong theme in the fair, and slime continues to be a popular subject for inquiry. As for results, it turns out the five-second rule is “gross.” And according to Gabriel, an eighth-grade scientist, โDiet Coke explodes less and normal Coke explodes more,โ and may get all over your clothes.
A shooting Sunday evening on the No. 49 Muni bus near Mission and 13th Street left one person hospitalized. The heavily used line runs along Mission, and the shooting temporarily re-routed other Muni bus lines. Some Mission residents have called for increased security, and data show violent crime slightly up by 6 percent from 2021 to 2022. San Francisco still remains in the bottom half of major American cities experiencing violent crime.
Nonetheless, outrage over crime (and urban annoyances) continues to go viral. Joe Eskanazi invites you to generate your own hit piece on San Francisco using a Mad Libs-type app developed by Will Jarrett that lets you mimic the style of a Nextdoor complaint, a “Why This Couple Had to Leave SF” op-ed, or an “Out of-Town Newspaper Discovers SF” dispatch. “If it feels like all the recent articles about misery and exodus in San Francisco were written by an AI chatbot, rest assured,” says Joe, “they were not.” But now you can write your own and post it to the comments section–check out our latest submissions. (“Hi everyone! I have seen several coyotes in the vicinity behaving friendly and I donโt think they live around here.”)
More to come,
Sara
The Latest News
Middle school science fair returns to Buena Vista Horace Mann
Slime, exploding Coke, and catapults investigated by young scientists.
Shooting on No. 49 Muni bus hospitalizes one
A man allegedly shot another passenger Sunday evening on a No. 49 Muni bus near 13th Street.
San Francisco is dying, and Iโm leaving โ write your own Mad Libs-type story!
We have an app to help make your rant about the city go viral.
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