Winter 2018 - Play
Play
Features
States of Play
Your cat gets it. So does your inner child. Do you? 
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Necessary Roughness
A century ago, football was in crisis. History has a way of repeating.
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150 Years of Cal at Play
A celebration of play—sports, games, pastimes, creation, and The Play itself.
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Lab + Field
Robots at Play
In a Berkeley artificial intelligence lab, robots are learning to learn.
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Shakedown
Early earthquake warnings come to California.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
The constant in gambling is regret.
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Five Questions for Galen Cranz
Tips on chair design and body-conscious sitting with a professor emerita
of architecture.
Berkeley Brains of Yore: Wendell M. Stanley and Joel H. Hildebrand
Read about the first man to crystallize and identify a virus, and the chemist
who saved lives with his groundbreaking research on gas solubility.
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Arts + Letters
Dreamers in a Nightmare
A newly commissioned work gives voice to the undocumented. 
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Sather Gate
Taking Up the Challenge
Q&A with Cal Athletic Director, Jim Knowlton.
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Chancellor’s Letter
In the Zone
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Out of the Gate
A Moveable Beast
A Bear in Pamplona.
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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
Kids don’t play like they used to.
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