Musk says he’ll move X and SpaceX out of California
Billionaire Elon Musk says he's moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to the company's rocket launch site dubbed Starbase in Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco. He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change the “final straw.” Tesla, where Musk is CEO, moved its corporate headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California in 2021. Musk has also said that he has moved his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state personal income tax. SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets from the southern tip of Texas at Boca Chica Beach, near the Mexican border at a site called Starbase. The company’s smaller Falcon 9 rockets take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California. It’s just below South Padre Island, and about 20 miles from Brownsville. If Musk were to move SpaceX operations out of Hawthorne, it would likely have a
Today on AirTalk, we’ll talk with Wall Street Journal Reporter covering AI and Elon Musk Meghan Bobrowsky.
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Is ‘the most important meal of the day’ really that important? Examining the science behind breakfast
You know the phrase. Maybe your parents said it. Maybe your doctors said it. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” But is that really true? Turns out, it’s much more complex. Today on AirTalk, we discuss the science behind breakfast, whether you really need it for good health, tips for optimizing nutrition whether you’re a breakfast stan or breakfast skipper. Joining to discuss is Dr. Zhaoping Li, center director and division chief of clinical nutrition and professor of medicine at UCLA Health. We also want to hear about your relationship with breakfast. Need it? Hate it? What have you found works for you and what’s your advice for others? Join the conversation by calling 866-893-5722 or email atcomments@laist.com.
Emmy nominations are in! What shows are likely to win and which ones were sorely left out?
The 2024 Emmy nominations were announced this morning. With HBO’s Succession out of the mix, the drama series category allowed for some new shows to be nominated this year, including FX’s Shogun and Amazon Prime’s video game adaption Fallout. The argument of whether or not The Bear is really a comedy will continue as it secured a nomination for its second season in outstanding comedy series, as well as nominations for both of its leads Jeremy Allen-White and Ayo Edebiri. Netflix’s hit series Baby Reindeer, which sparked real life controversy, was nominated for outstanding limit series, along with Netflix’s other limited series Ripley.
Today on AirTalk, we discuss some of the biggest nominations for the 2024 Emmy’s with Katey Rich, awards editor for The Ankler.
This week on Passing the Mantle: High school then, and now
On the second episode of Passing the Mantle, Larry and Desmond go back to their teenage years to discuss their formative time in high school.
Larry went to Hollywood High’s alternative school in the 70s, and Desmond attended the Polytechnic School in Pasadena until 2019 — and their experiences were very different. So we want to hear from you: What about your parents’ or child’s experience in high school surprised you? Are you glad you went to school when you did, or do you feel like you would’ve had a more fitting experience in another time? Call 866-893-5722 or email atcomments@laist.com. Desmond joins Larry to preview this week’s podcast episode and talk about what made their high school experiences so unique.
Passing the Mantle is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Telling the history of Compton through the experience of growing up there
Albert M. Camarillo grew up in Compton amid segregation. His father had moved there decades prior from Michoacán, Mexico, with Compton being one of the few places where Mexican immigrants were allowed to reside. Camarillo's Compton was characterized by racial strife as Black and Latino families moved in and former white residents moved out, taking with them much of the city's resources. In the 1960s when Camarillo left for college, he became one of only 42 Mexican American students to attend UCLA that year, later becoming the first Mexican American to receive a doctorate in history, founding the specific focus of Chicano/a studies. Now, almost 5 decades later, Camarillo returns to the neighborhood he grew up in his new book Compton In My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality, using his own family history to chronicle Compton's historical record.
Today on AirTalk, Albert M. Camarillo, professor of history at Stanford University and author of Compton In My Soul: A Life In Pursuit of Racial Equality joins Larry to talk about his new book and how his childhood in Compton informed his career as a historian.
