The Edge Episode 4: That Manhole Is Now a Maintenance Hole
Posted on October 6, 2020 - 11:38pm
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Editors’ Picks: What to Read, Watch, and Listen to This Fall
Our editors have curated a list of entertainment to indulge in this autumn. Here are their top picks of web series, podcasts, films, and more, all produced by UC Berkeley faculty and alumni.
From the Fall 2020 issue of California.
The Edge Episode 1: Pattern, How Do You Know Me?
Posted on August 5, 2020 - 9:53am
The Edge Episode 2: What’s In A Name?
Posted on August 5, 2020 - 9:52am
Quarantine Culture: Essential Podcasts for Desperate Times
Trapped at home doing laundry without anything to stimulate your quarantine brain? Anna Sussman is here to help. Sussman, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and a senior producer and managing editor of WNYC’s podcast Snap Judgment, shares her top podcasts to get you through the week.
Posted on April 3, 2020 - 11:29am
Is ‘They’ Here to Stay?
“Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do,” Geoffrey Nunberg wrote last year in an op-ed for NPR. But this “pronoun rage,” which speaks to the growing agitation around gender and identity politics, isn’t all that new, he says. And he would know.
From the Spring 2020 issue of California.
Good Job, Brain! How to Create a Pub Trivia Podcast
What radio podcast has three words, one exclamation point, mines the game Trivial Pursuit for questions, and has been produced by three UC Berkeley alums and their pal for the past four years? It’s Good Job, Brain! But if you’re a trivia buff you probably already knew that.
Posted on November 10, 2016 - 1:09pm
Dawn of Reckonings: In Podcast, People Fess Up to Being Completely Wrong
Daniel Gallant was an arrant racist—a violent and unstable man who took great pleasure in hurting his fellow human beings. At one point, he made a promise to himself that he would assault at least one person from an “inferior” race daily. It was a vow that he was assiduous in keeping.
Posted on February 11, 2016 - 12:23pm
He Who Tells the Best Story Wins: Radio and Podcast Host of “Snap Judgment” Talks Shop
In 2007, Glynn Washington was director of a program at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business called YEAH (Young Entrepreneurs at Haas), working to give underprivileged Bay Area youth more opportunities in life, when he seized upon an opportunity of his own.
From the Winter 2015 Breaking News issue of California.
