There’s something happening here… “I plan to be at the meeting tomorrow, one of the very few Academic Senate meetings I will have attended in my 17+ years as a faculty member here. I am not proud of not attending Senate meetings. I have good reasons why I often could not: they tend (like t[...]
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November 13th, 2011 - 12:11 pm § in America
Berkeley Blog: Capitalism in a Social Democracy
This article about the Finish economy came to my attention after a lecture at TownHall. Jeff Sachs showed frightening data … the US has fallen to the bottom of the industrial, developed democracies in growth rates and, especially, in terms of upward mobility. Sachs’ argument comes do[...]
November 7th, 2011 - 8:25 am § in America
BERKELEY BLOG: Lessons for the Occupation from the Tea Baggers
What the Occupy movement can learn from the Tea Party Lawrence Rosenthal, executive director, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements | 11/3/11 | It’s important to look at the Occupy Movement in the context of the Tea Party movement.Both were utterly unexpected and both were game-[...]
BERKELEY BLOG: Selling the 99% Agenda
A framing memo for Occupy Wall Street George Lakoff, professor of linguistics | 10/25/11 | CLICKME: to hear Frank Luntz advise Stephen Colbert on how to frame the Colbert Super Pak. I was asked weeks ago by some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to make suggestions for how to frame the movemen[...]
Berkeley Blog: Is Chris Christie a Rational Reprican?
Dan Farber, professor of law | 10/3/11 There’s a lot of buzz about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a possible GOP presidential candidate. As with the other candidates in the race, it seemed like a good idea to check into his positions on environmental issues. The first thing that becomes c[...]
October 10th, 2011 - 12:53 pm § in Schools & Colleges
from the Berkeley Blog: A Different Funding Model
from the Berkeley Blog An alternative funding model to support higher ed excellence Andrew Szeri, professor of mechanical engineering | 3/30/10 | 4 comments | Leave a comment Cuts in state support and the subsequent increases in fees are leading many students to take out loans. This is very regretta[...]
September 28th, 2011 - 8:51 am § in Misc.
Bake Sale at Berkeley
The sale, by the Berkeley College Republicans, charged customers different prices for cupcakes and cookies based on race and gender. White males paid $2, black men paid 75 cents, and Native American men paid 25 cents. Women got 25 cents off. The group sold 300 cupcakes. “There were some aggres[...]
What Human Origins Mean to Berkeley
Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
BERKELEY BLOG
How to create more jobs by lowering wages: Texas and America Robert Reich, professor of public policy | 9/14/11 Perry and Romney can duke it out over who created the most jobs, but governors have as much influence over job growth in their states as roosters do over sunrises. States don’t have thei[...]
May 9th, 2011 - 12:55 pm § in Hypocrisy
We Give Berkeley Professor a D.
Ed. This post from the Berkely Blog gets a D. Prof. Mendoza dismisses a genetics of intelligence by reductio ad absurdam. Asserting that there is no genetic factor or very little in intelligence would be as silly as claiming that there are no genetic effects on the speed of thoroughbred horses[...]