Why has America elected a president adapted to a Stone Age way of life? Malcolm Potts, Professor Of Population And Family Planning | November 9, 2016 There are a lot of unhappy, surprised people in Berkeley today. I am in the minority who are deeply unhappy but in no way surprised. The interpretatio[...]
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November 10th, 2016 - 11:57 am § in Misc.
After Trump: Posts from Berkeley
May 5th, 2015 - 8:56 am § in Misc.
Berkeley Blog: Mapping Energy
Visualize the energy economy with new energy-data mapping tools Maximillian Auffhammer, associate professor, agricultural and resource economics | 4/28/14 | Leave a comment We empirical economists get very excited about finding or generating new data sets. There are big returns to splicing together [...]
February 16th, 2015 - 4:42 pm § in Uncategorized
BERKELEY BLOG: Climate Change
Is climate change a bulldozer or bullet train? Dan Farber, professor of law | 12/5/13 We’re in the early stages of climate change — just how much depending in large part on whether we control our emissions. But how quickly will this happen? Is it a bulldozer we can dodge or a bullet train that[...]
December 26th, 2014 - 11:03 am § in America
“We had a policeman responding to a call, protecting the residents of the city of Berkeley,”
Black Mayor Defends White Police Officer Who Shot Teen Near Ferguson Berkeley, Missouri Mayor Theodore Hoskins, who is black, in a press conference Wednesday defended a white police officer who fatally shot an armed teenager. Hoskins said he reviewed surveillance video of the shooting, which show[...]
October 16th, 2014 - 12:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
BERKELEY BLOG: What Government Means When it Requires Med. Students to Take Ethics Classes
The breaking of bodies and minds: Task force report confirms complicity of U.S. medical personnel in torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment Alexa Koenig, executive director, Human Rights Center, Berkeley Law | 11/4/13 | 3 comments A report released this morning — Ethics Abandoned: Me[...]
September 24th, 2014 - 4:47 am § in Misc.
Berkeley Blog: A review of Picketty
Inequality In the Twenty-First Century john powell, director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society | 5/2/14 | As part of his nationwide book tour, French economist Thomas Piketty stopped in San Francisco to speak to overflowing lecture halls. ….. Piketty’s new book, Capital in the[...]
April 21st, 2014 - 8:54 am § in Environment
BERKELEY BLOG: Will Blocking Keystone Be Good For the Environment?
Not building Keystone XL will likely leave a billion barrels of bitumen in the ground Maximillian Auffhammer, associate professor, agricultural and resource economics | 3/25/14 I am not a fan of blanket statements. Whenever oil sands come up in casual conversation, many of my economist friends argue[...]
Berkeley Blog: Scientific Fraud at SCIENCE
Open access is not the problem – my take on Science’s peer review “sting” Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 10/4/13 | 11 comments In 2011, after having read several really bad papers in the journal Science, I decided to explore just how slipshod their peer-r[...]
September 23rd, 2013 - 12:45 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Berkeley Blog
Let’s not get too excited about the new UC open access policy Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 8/3/13 It was announced today that systemwide Academic Senate representing the 10 campuses of the University of California system had passed an “open access” policy[...]
Berkeley Blog: Can the US spread democracy and should it do so?
The trap of ‘democratization’ as ‘wishful thinking’: The state of the art in the Arab world[...]