Fall 2018 - Culture Shift
Culture Shift
Features
Their Shot
Women are still woefully underrepresented in high office, but that could change.
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Politically Homeless
Q&A with Berkeley grad and columnist for The Washington Post, Max Boot.
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The Digital Panopticon
In our camera-saturated, socially connected world, everyone is watching everyone.
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150 Years of Social Movements at Cal
A look at the university’s involvement in historic cultural crusades, from LGBTQ rights to the anti-war movement.
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Lab + Field
Something New Under the Sun
Step right up and read! These new chemical structures can make water from desert air—and achieve myriad other marvelous feats.
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Child’s Play: Are Apps Collecting Your Children’s Data?
A recent Berkeley study reveals that a majority of Android children’s apps from the Google Play store may be illegally mining information of minors.
Flight into Night
Humanity’s ubiquitous presence across the planet is driving mammals into the darkness, says Berkeley expert.
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Five Questions for Ellen Moore
In her studies of two California college campuses, Ellen Moore discovered that it’s military training—not poor academic preparation or PTSD—that causes veterans to give up on academic life.
Eco Cabs, Grooming Claws, and Flypaper for Pathogens
CALIFORNIA mag has its finger—or rather, its grooming claw—on the pulse of Berkeley’s breakthrough science.
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Berkeley Brains of Yore: Lynn Margulis and Willard F. Libby
Read about the woman responsible for the theory of endosymbiosis, and the man who helped us determine the date of Pleistocene poop.
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Arts + Letters
Failure, an Excerpt
In his new memoir, the acclaimed author of Carter Beats the Devil recalls an eventful first semester at Cal.
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The Body Remembers
Q&A with poet Javier Zamora on the lasting trauma of immigration.
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Sather Gate
Stranger in a Strange Land
Gary May, Cal alumnus and UC Davis’s first African-American chancellor, knows what it’s like to be an outsider.
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Chancellor’s Letter
Listening to Women’s Voices
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Out of the Gate
Trick or Tracksuit
An expat’s Halloween faux pas.
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Perspectives
Share Your Own Insight
Have a perspective on the topic that we somehow failed to include? Share it with us now.
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Editor’s Note
“It wasn’t obvious or inevitable that we’d kick our collective smoking habit. Or that Communism would come tumbling down, that marriage equality would happen, or that we’d elect a black president.”
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