Winter 2016 - Reality Bites
Reality Bites
Features
Matter of Degrees
How hot it gets still depends on us.
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Mind Tricks
Bishop Berkeley and the idea of everything
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Black Hole
The injustice of wrongful incarceration doesn’t end when the prison doors open.
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Lab + Field
People Are Strange
Research shows how lack of sleep affects emotions, memory, and perception.
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Paint by Numbers
Algorithms for the artistically challenged
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Deep Down
Geologists discover a new feature of the Cascadia subduction zone.
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Green Acres
The fertilizer effect of CO2 slows warming.
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Arts + Letters
Write Like You’re The Majority
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen declines the role of victim.
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Sather Gate
The State of the State’s University
Keepin’ it real with President Napolitano
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Five Questions for Dr. Sheyna Gifford
The Cal alumna who spent a year on a simulated mission to Mars.
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Out of the Gate
Pierced in St. Petersburg
The opera singer across the hall was handsome, talented, and built like Adonis. Too bad about the chemistry.
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Alumni Gazette
Rocket Science, Woman Power, and Updating The League
Cal alumna talk propulsion engineering and the business of recruitment.
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Perspectives
Editor’s Note
Reflections on a surreal season.
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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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