Clued In
The Game, a semiannual 24-plus-hour
quest to unlock a seemingly impenetrable network of clues, has become a
Stanford tradition for students and alumni alike. Winning requires gadgets,
tactics and a ridiculous amount of cryptography. And the winners get—nothing? BY
marisa milanese
Telling Tales Out
of School
Retired from teaching but vibrant as ever, Diane Middlebrook is working on
the next chapter of her life, as full-time biographer. Her latest project
is characteristically adventurous: chronicling the troubled marriage of poets
Ted
Hughes and Sylvia Plath. It’s a subject as interesting as Middlebrook
herself. BY cynthia haven
The Search for Peter
Starr
Pete Starr lived up to his name. A prominent San Francisco lawyer, he was
one of the nation’s foremost mountaineers and conservationists
in the early 1930s. Then he disappeared on a solo climbing trip to the Sierra.
By the time searchers found him, all of California knew his story. BY
william alsup
Masters of Deception?
The works of Early Renaissance painters such as Jan van Eyck have enthralled
viewers for centuries with their uncanny realism and exquisite detail.
Was it sheer talent, or did they secretly rely on projection devices? A
Stanford physicist takes a stand. BY marguerite rigoglioso
