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A Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley
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Musician Lara Downes celebrates the sound of America
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May 15, 2026 |
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How the American university’s success led to its modern challenges
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May 01, 2026 |
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Alison Gopnik on why AI is no match for a 4-year-old
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Hany Farid on the erosion of shared reality in the age of deepfakes
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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First a plague, then a fire: How a changing city rebuilt the modern stage
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi on turning air into water for all
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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The rule of law depends on the courage of judges
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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An evolutionary biologist makes the case for pausing AI
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Ramzi Fawaz on the psychedelic power of the humanities
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Why kind leaders finish first (according to science)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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How do we make better decisions? (revisiting)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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The making of racialized US immigration control
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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For Nobel laureate Randy Schekman, it began with pond scum and a toy microscope
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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The complicated role of media in motherhood
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Top Biden official calls for unity, ‘moral courage’ in public service
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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How Berkeley became a powerhouse for innovation and startups
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Long said to be ‘too big to fail,’ the ocean needs a new narrative
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Alva Noë on how art allows us to see everyday things anew
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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How forgiveness changes you and your brain
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and the future of gene editing
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Berkeley scholars unpack what's at stake for U.S. democracy
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Economist on the benefits of a (modest) billionaire tax
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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How the tobacco industry drove the rise of ultra-processed foods
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Energy justice expert on his pursuit for affordable and clean energy for all
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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A debate on how to feed the world without ‘eating the earth’
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May 30, 2025 |
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Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like
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May 16, 2025 |
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In 1970, one in five Americans moved every year. Now it’s one in 13. What changed?
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May 02, 2025 |
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The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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J Finley on how Black women use sass to claim their humanity
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Law professors debate the merits of originalism
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Heather Cox Richardson on the evolution of the Republican Party
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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UC Berkeley political scientist asks: Does democracy work?
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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How hospitals collect medical debts can hurt patients. Why?
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the U.S.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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How do we make better decisions?
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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The future of American democracy
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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A return to monarchy? Bradley Onishi on Project 2025
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The science behind the emotions in 'Inside Out 2'
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Journalist Jemele Hill on the intersection of sports and race (revisiting)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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How the Supreme Court divided America
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Adam Gopnik on what it takes to keep liberal democracies alive
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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'Wave' memoirist on writing about unimaginable loss
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May 31, 2024 |
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Gigi Sohn on her fight for an open internet
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May 28, 2024 |
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Harry Edwards to sociology grads: Even in turbulent times, always believe in yourself
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May 24, 2024 |
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Feeling like a failure isn't the same as failing, filmmaker tells journalism grads
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May 23, 2024 |
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Berkeley commencement speeches celebrate resilience, bravery
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May 17, 2024 |
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Ruth Simmons on access and equity in higher education
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May 03, 2024 |
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The future of psychedelic science
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Sociologist Harry Edwards on sport in society (revisiting)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the need for 'angry optimism'
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The future of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor on fighting the good fight
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Why so many recent uprisings have backfired
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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American democracy and the crisis of majority rule
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Free speech on campus in times of great division
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Protecting survivors of sex trafficking
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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The transformative potential of AI in academia
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Nate Cohn on polling and the 2024 election
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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A blueprint for housing reform
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Poulomi Saha on why we're so obsessed with cults
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Chinese activist Ai WeiWei on art, exile and politics
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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What are Berkeley's Latinx Thriving Initiatives?
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Poet Ishion Hutchinson reads 'The Mud Sermon' and other poems
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Michael Brown's family on keeping his memory alive
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Oppenheimer's Berkeley years
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Jessica Morse on how we can live with fire
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Siri creator Adam Cheyer shares secrets of entrepreneurship
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Legal scholars unpack Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Poets laureate share works about creation, sacrifice and home
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Biden economic adviser on building a clean energy economy
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Climate grief: Embracing loss as a catalyst for collective action
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Pulitzer-winner Natalie Wolchover: 'Knowledge of physics is a superpower'
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May 30, 2023 |
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Sociology Ph.D. graduates on the power of family and deep inquiry
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May 26, 2023 |
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Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones to graduates: 'The world needs your imagination'
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May 19, 2023 |
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How a lie from medieval Europe spread antisemitism across the world
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May 05, 2023 |
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ChatGPT developer John Schulman on making AI more truthful
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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International journalists on women's rights in Iran and Afghanistan
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Jitendra Malik on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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The rise and destruction of the Jewish fashion industry
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Economists on what it'll take to rebuild Ukraine
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Women of the Black Panther Party
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Artist William Kentridge on staying open to the 'less good' ideas
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Adriana Green and Nadia Ellis discuss 'The Yellow House'
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Emiliana Simon-Thomas on where happiness comes from (revisiting)
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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The social safety net as an investment in children
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Inna Sovsun on what's next in Russia's war on Ukraine
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Poet Alex Dimitrov reads from 'Love and Other Poems'
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Judith Heumann on the long fight for inclusion
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Indigenous access, political ecology in settler states
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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U.S. military bases in World War II Latin America
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Novelist Ilija Trojanow on the utopian prerogative
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Activist Pua Case on the movement to protect Mauna Kea
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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How we learn language across communities and cultures
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Learning from nature to design better robots
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Scholars on using fantasy to reimagine Blackness
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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America wants gun control. Why doesn't it have it? (revisiting)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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ACLU leader on how voter suppression works
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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'Mother Jones' editor on how the super-rich really live
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Climate displacement and remaking the built environment
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Timnit Gebru on how change happens through collective action
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May 31, 2022 |
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Scholars on Roman Vishniac's photos of Jewish life before the Holocaust
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May 20, 2022 |
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An update on Public Service Loan Forgiveness
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May 06, 2022 |
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Damilola Ogunbiyi on driving an equitable energy transition
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Sociologist Harry Edwards on sport in society
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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A Poetry for the People conversation
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Mapping the brain to understand health, aging and disease
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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UC Berkeley experts on the invasion of Ukraine
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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The performance of labor
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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How archaeology is used in comics
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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The EU in crisis
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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'Can we change nature — this time, to save it?'
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Eva Paterson on transforming the nation's consciousness on race
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Why do leaves change color in the fall?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Scholars reflect on new book, 'Atmospheres of Violence'
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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How technology is transforming religion
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Finding hope for biodiversity conservation
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Berkeley experts on how to fight disinformation
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Scholars discuss 'New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century'
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Should we strive for unity? Or something else?
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Emiliana Simon-Thomas on where happiness comes from
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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'Indigenous United' student podcast hosts on being Native at Berkeley
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Roger McNamee on his quest to stop Facebook
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Poet Shane McCrae reads 'The Mind of Hell' and other new works
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Linda Rugg on Native American repatriation at UC Berkeley
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Rucker Johnson on why school integration works (revisiting)
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Labor lawyer reviews the American Rescue Plan Act
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Journalists on reporting in China and U.S.-China relations
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May 21, 2021 |
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Wally Adeyemo to Berkeley graduates: You are prepared to shape the world
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May 19, 2021 |
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Filmmaker Steve McQueen to Berkeley students: 'Take a chance'
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May 08, 2021 |
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State lawmakers on the future of California
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Franklin Zimring on the tragedy of U.S. police killings
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Bess Williamson on the history of disability and design
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Novelist Alice Walker: 'Dance when you feel like dancing'
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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'Social Dilemma' star on fighting the disinformation machine
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Charles Henry on the case for reparations
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Will the post-pandemic era be the next 'roaring '20s'?
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Late filmmaker Marlon Riggs on making ‘Tongues Untied’
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Revisiting: Comedian Maz Jobrani on noticing the good in his life
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Poet Aria Aber reads from her 2019 book 'Hard Damage'
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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U.S. elections 2020 and implications for the Americas
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Threats to abortion rights and how people are resisting
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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How Native women challenged a 1900s Bay Area assimilation program
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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How Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' took on a life of its own
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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The violent underworlds of El Salvador and their ties to the U.S.
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Portraits of power: Women of the 116th Congress
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Berkeley scholars on the legal legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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How plantation museum tours distort the reality of slavery
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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How to use sleep and circadian science to get better rest
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Why the 1960s song 'Little Boxes' still strikes a chord today
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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The power of mentorship, sisterhood in politics
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Joyce Carol Oates on her dystopian novel 'Hazards of Time Travel'
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Why racial equity belongs in the study of economics
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Thelton Henderson on the bravery to do what's right
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Can you imagine a future without police?
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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How higher ed is transforming during the pandemic
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Fighting racism: How to restructure society so it's open to all
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Journalist Nahal Toosi on national security reporting under Trump
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Using peer pressure to fight climate change
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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America wants gun control. Why doesn't it have it?
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Thirty-six questions to help us connect when we're apart
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May 29, 2020 |
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The global politics of waste
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May 22, 2020 |
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Poet Laureate Robert Hass reads new collection ‘Summer Snow’
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May 08, 2020 |
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Art Cullen on journalism and politics in the Corn Belt
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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How the real estate industry undermined black homeownership
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Naomi Klein on eco-facism and the Green New Deal
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Deirdre Cooper Owens on gynecology’s brutal roots in slavery
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Poetry and the Senses: 'Emergency is not separate from us'
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Journalist Jemele Hill on the intersection of sports and race
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Feb 15, 2020 |
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Denise Herd and Waldo Martin on Berkeley's '400 Years' initiative
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Film historian Harry Chotiner on the state of American cinema
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Chilean novelist Isabel Allende on war, loss and healing
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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Paul Butler on how prison abolition would make us all safer
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Consciousness guide on using psychedelics as medicine
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Artist Paul Chan on the 'Bather's Dilemma'
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Professor Emerita Beverly Crawford on lies about migrants
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on overcoming the odds
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Berkeley scholars on the politics and law of impeachment
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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Comedian Maz Jobrani on noticing the good in his life
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on defending DACA
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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California Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris on the health impacts of childhood stress
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Berkeley Law's Ian Haney López on defeating racial fearmongering
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Author Andrew Marantz on the hijacking of the American conversation
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Biologist E.O. Wilson on how to save the natural world
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Journalist Maggie Haberman on reporting on the Trump White House
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Barbara Simons on election hacking and how to avoid it in 2020
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Nobel laureate Randy Schekman on new Parkison's research
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Justice Elena Kagan on taking risks, finding common ground
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Admissions director Femi Ogundele on what makes a Berkeley student
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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john powell on rejecting white supremacy, embracing belonging
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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We need a digital infrastructure that serves humanity, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Take an intoxicating plants tour at UC Botanical Garden
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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How an 'awe walk' helped one musician reconnect with her home
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Economist Samuel Bowles on why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Music historian David James on cinema's dance with popular music
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Joel Moskowitz on the health risks of cell phone radiation
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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What can be done to protect pollinators
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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#SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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Virgie Tovar on ending fat phobia
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Jun 29, 2019 |
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Berkeley artist Mildred Howard on the impact of gentrification in the Bay Area
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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'New York Times' editor on the future of fact-based journalism
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Tanner Lectures, day 3: Commentators respond to Ripstein, discuss morality of war
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May 31, 2019 |
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john powell on targeted universalism
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May 29, 2019 |
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Tanner Lectures, day 2: Arthur Ripstein on why it's wrong to target civilians during war
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May 22, 2019 |
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Tanner Lectures, day 1: Arthur Ripstein on rules for wrongdoers
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May 16, 2019 |
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Kira Stoll and David Wooley on how California and UC are reducing carbon emissions
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May 11, 2019 |
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Dr. Joe Tafur on the role of spiritual and emotional healing in modern healthcare
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May 02, 2019 |
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Professor David Raulet on the revolution of cancer immunology
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Cal Performances announces its 2019-20 season
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Professor Rucker Johnson on why school integration works
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Rev. William J. Barber II: 'Forward together, not one step back'
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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Jennifer Doudna on the future of gene editing
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Calculating your carbon footprint and the Cool Campus Challenge
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Product engineer Amy Heineike on how humans and machines interact with AI
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Programmer and author Ellen Ullman on her life in code
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Neurobiologist David Presti on the ritual use of psychoactive plants
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Poet Tarfia Faizullah reads from 'Registers of Illuminated Villages'
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Author Ashton Applewhite on counteracting ageism
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Jimmy López on composing 'Dreamers' oratorio inspired by Berkeley undocumented students
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Michael Pollan with Dacher Keltner on the new science of psychedelics
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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Talk Policy to Me: The California housing crisis
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Professor Michael Omi on racial classification in the census
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Year of the woman: Panel on the recent rise of women in politics
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Dancer Akram Khan on performing the unimaginable, theater of war
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Berkeley Law Professor Catherine Fisk on reimagining labor law
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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East Bay poet Ari Banias reads new work at Lunch Poems
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Richard Rothstein on how our government segregated America
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Panel discussion: The Changing California Electorate
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Professor Tina Sacks on maintaining social welfare programs in the Trump era
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Ph.D. candidate Rosalie Lawrence on how our cells make decisions
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor on breaking the story that ignited #MeToo
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Berkeley Law Professor Daniel Farber on presidential power and individual rights
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Astronomer Bob Kirshner on the accelerating universe to accelerating science
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Clinicians discuss where health and human rights meet
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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Michael Pollan on science, psychedelics and the human mind
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Jennifer Doudna on gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Anthropologist Eugenie Scott on evolution and creationism as science and myth
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Robert Reich on why the common good disappeared and how we get it back
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Artistic Director Robert Battle on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Commentator Van Jones on seeking environmental justice during climate change
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Nov 27, 2018 |