Archive

Spring 2013 Growing Up

Stories of childhood, parenting, and old age with Ursula K. Le Guin, Paula Fass, Kenneth Brower, et al.

Winter 2012 Culture Shock

Four outsiders get grounded at Cal; Putin punked in gay Russia; a second generation scrapbook; and the truth behind Argo.

Fall 2012 Politics Issue

Brown's Do-Over, California by the Numbers, One Nation Under God, Body Politics, Re-Play, Campus Spies, Your Vote Counts, and many more.

Summer 2012 North South

North/South Cultural One-Upmanship, The Upside of Attachment Theory, Downsizing California, The Downside of Vacationing in Guatemala, Berkeley 1912, Prison Reform, Cal Olympic Glory, and many more.

Spring 2012 Piracy

Alumnus of the Year Eric Schmidt, Computers Under Siege, Guarding the World's Seas, Reich Sees the Problem, Turning Patents into C Notes, T Cells Fight the Big C, Warren Hellman Remembered, Venice Backstreets, Ginger Beer Plant, and many more.

Winter 2011 Taste

The Return of Moden, Computer Connoisseur, Cowabunga, Something Old, Something New, The Language of Wine, Bus Stop and Start, Early Days of Chez Panisse, Tax the Rich?, Industrial Arts, Mayan Time, and many more.

Fall 2011 The Good Fight

Snaps of a Civil War, Your Body's Battles, Israeli-Palestine Campus Clash, The Ecology of Conflict, China's Greatest Admiral, Adventures in Tahrir Square, Joe Kapp v. the NFL, Frederick Wiseman, Nicolle Wallace, Richard Muller, and more.

Summer 2011 The Soundtrack of Berkeley

Banker's Bluegrass, Music Appreciation, This is Radio Kal, Marching Band Blues, Sproul Plaza (Live), The Greek Theatre, Michael Chabon's Telegraph Ave., Joe Garrett's True Rock n' Roll Tales, Wendy Northcutt's Darwin Awards

Spring 2011 Articles of Faith

California Spirituality, Envisioning Faith, Atheism on Campus, What Voters Believe, The Tao of Ed White, and the CAA 2011 Alumnus of the Year, Steven Chu

Winter 2010 Inside Out

The brain and the body in step, Bugging out at home, In love—until you go out, BAM in transition

Fall 2010 Have We Got Issues

Addicted to Prop. 13, Psychotropic Research’s Œdipal Complex, Undergraduate Anxiety, Obsessed with Moral Purity

Summer 2010 Shelf Life

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Dusting off the works of Eugene Burdick, Beverly Cleary, Ina Coolbrith, Harriet Lane Levy, and George Stewart . Plus: Hyenas in the hills, rebranding public health, advertisers we have known, and more...

Spring 2010 Searchlight on Gray Areas

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Truth & Lies, Rube Goldberg's Last Laugh, Errol Morris and the Truth about Truth, Trevor Paglen Spies on Spies, Berkeley Crime-Stoppers, Moonlighting Blogademics, China's News Black-Out, Can Cal Afford Athletics?, The Beauty of the Philippines, Richard Goldman named CAA's Alumnus of the Year

Winter 2009 Food for Thought

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Slicing up the pie. One way or another consumers will get their just desserts. Future fuels, super crops, drier wines...

Fall 2009 Constant Change

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Under Construction, A Bigger History, A Campus Crusade, A New J-School Model, When the lefty press was young, Get your news in the Alumni Gazette, The brilliance of babies, Life after football, Diversity and its discontents

May June 2009 Go Bare

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The naked issue, Confidential, Vaccine for sick reporting, Curtain call for Robert Cole

March April 2009 The Soul of Wit

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The humor issue, New Mark Twain, New Yorker cartoonist Mike Twohy, Jon Carroll remember The Pelican, The other Last Suppers, Uber-modern hula, Pete Newell, Alan Dundes, and more

November December 2008 Stars of Berkeley

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In Search of Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and The Theory of Everything, The problems with electronic voting, David Simon's blues, Mimicking Mother Nature, Funding the Hybrid University, and Life on Mars

September October 2008 Sustainable Blueprint

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Designing [Green] California, Sweating in the Arctic, Art from the ashes, Sonoma's radical experiment, California's Central Park, Eco-neighborhoods, The world's greenest building, Safer chemicals and slower foods

July August 2008 Summer Sports Issue

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Gold rush, Cal Olympic hopefuls, Why gamblers really lose it, Funny, you don't look Jewish, gridiron dancers, rugby wolves, and building the better body.

March April 2008 Mind Matters

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Meet your new brain, Sophisticated new tools are forcing us to rethink thinking, A Hangover Cure from Mars, Crazy or Just Sleepy?, John Searle on why artificial intelligence flunks out, Hubert Dreyfus on why Second Life is no life at all, Beyond DNA: What the genome can't explain

January February 2008 25 Ideas on the Verge

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25 brilliant California ideas, eureka!, The Worst Insult?, How To Get A Raise, Alumnus of the Year: Hon. Thelton E. Henderson, The unflappable Garrison Keillor Berkeley's Hewlett Rocky & Bullwinkle's dad, What's in store, from e-clothes to cancer-eating germs

November December 2007 New Media

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But is it art?, Architect Toyo Ito's new Berkeley Art Museum defies all boundaries--virtual and real, public and private, Pity The Macho Man, A Better Forest Fire, A special report on new media, Marianne Weems's digital world theater, Mexico's racial legacy, Serbia's secrets, Iran's loss, and Shanghai's golden years, In Sather Gate: The Play meets the Free Speech Movement

September October 2007 Green Tech

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U Start-up, Berkeley's energy venture will radically reshape the university, the Bay Area, and the world, Online Bank Fraud, The Next Freeway Collapse?, Can Ed Blakely revive New Orleans? Flying ants, Twyla Tharp, and Teri McKeever, the unconvential winner

July August 2007 Summer Travel Issue

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is love still in the air?, New hippies and old dig the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love By Ben Fong-Torres, California Abroad, Pico Lyer: The Cuban's miracle, Cynthia Gorney: A Chiapas reunion, Sarah Pollock: Wintering in Norway, Laurie Becklund: Romancing Chile, Why Teens Lie, Women, Men, & Carbs, Plus: Beautiful, nervous New Zealand, School's out!, Berkeley teachers, students in the wind, & Why Tibetans aren't a bumper sticker

May June 2007 New Food and Farming

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Is Alice right?, From Chez Panisse, she transformed the way we eat. Now Alice Waters wants to revolutionize the way we teach out kids., Plus Andrew Lam on crossroads cuisine, Rick Wartzman on New Ruralism, Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill, Eric Gower on breaking culinary rules, and photographer Reagan Louie returns to his California roots and in Sather Gate Berkeley's academic family tree

March April 2007 Centennial Edition

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Featuring 100s of Berkeley Luminaries: Don Fisher, Natalie Coughlin, Scott Adams, Steven Chu, Ronald Dellums, Joan Didion, John Doar, Rupert Garcia, Robert Hass, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barbara Lee, Robert McNamara, Greil Marcus, Norman Mineta, Gregory Peck, James Schamus, Earl Warren, and more...

January February 2007 25 Brilliant California Ideas

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25 brilliant California ideas selected by the faculties of UCLA and UC Berkeley. Plus, is there new hope for American health care?

November December 2006 Life After Bush

Will warrantless searches and the power to torture survive beyond this presidency? The man who wrote the memos insists they must.

July August 2006 Indo Chic

500 years after Columbus thought he'd discovered India, we are truly found.

March April 2006 Can We Know Everything

Search engines are racing to put everything knowable online, and crack the secrets of artificial intelligence.

January February 2006 Chinafornia

Our histories are interwoven. Business and cultural trade are exploding. So why is our future so tense?