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The Golden Hour
Travel, food, health, and the good life in Southern California
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Voters in California have approved $36 billion in new housing bonds, an unprecedented intervention anchoring today's edition. We also examine the year's first U.S. bird flu fatality linked to a rare s…
Today on The Golden Hour, we are tracking a major cluster of clinical health updates and seasonal leisure guides. From new insights into cardiometabolic health and non-invasive brain therapies to shif…
New research on the long-term safety of hormone replacement therapy leads today's briefing, followed closely by a wave of direct flight routes linking U.S. hubs to secondary European destinations. Fur…
A surge in regional dining footprints and newly diverging international travel habits headline today's edition. We also unpack the income numbers behind California's frozen housing market, track a mas…
Clinical milestones in personalized medicine command the top of today's briefing, led by the first human administration of an AI-designed bacteriophage. Further down, we parse the latest economic indi…
Today's briefing opens with an international nutrition panel breaking from U.S. federal dietary guidelines. We also look at a world-first iPS cell transplant for Parkinson's disease, track Los Angeles…
A mass migration from flights to Thanksgiving road trips leads off today's briefing. Beyond the holiday travel pivot, we cover a CRISPR editing breakthrough for hereditary angioedema, detail a $4,700 …
We're tracking a deep freeze in Southern California real estate, where home sales have plunged to historic lows despite sky-high prices. The Golden Hour also covers a pivot in leisure travel budgeting…
A 45% reduction in lung cancer progression from the SAFFRON trial leads today's briefing. We also look at a low-cost Cambridge photonic chip for biomarker monitoring, track Prime Roots' expansion in t…
Facial analysis foundation models and sleep-data diagnostics are pushing non-invasive health screening into new territory in today's briefing. Beyond clinical AI, we also look at a 28% jump in whole-f…