Mark is a writer, photographer and videographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A native of Buffalo, NY, Mark studied literature at the University of Chicago and was the founding editor of Curbed Chicago. Hungry to learn where our food comes from, he co-founded OrganicNation.tv in 2009, and spent the next year and a half traveling around the country and reporting on the organic food movement.
Photo by Shutterstock It turns out that fish pedicures aren’t just a bizarre beauty ritual — they’re also potentially dangerous. This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease
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Mozilla, the nonprofit tech company behind the ubiquitous Firefox web browser, recently announced that it will branch out and open a new office in downtown San Francisco later this summer. To
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