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Leading through Sustainability

CAA presents a conversation with Cal alum Jodi Russell ’96, Vice President R&D Cleaning and Professional Products at Clorox and Janet Brady, Lecturer and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Haas. Learn about Russell’s role in developing eco-friendly packaging during her 22 year history in the consumer packaging sector.

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Who Are We Now?

Former Cal student-athletes discuss the intersections of personal and shared identity.
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Striving to Thrive

Candid discussion on professional and career issues faced by women.

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A Dream Denied? The Immigrant Experience in the Campus Community

A Matter of Degree: California Spending on Prisons and Higher Education

Ethics and Identity: Dialogues on Race, Identity, Justice, and People of Color

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With help from UC Berkeley experts, California magazine explores cutting-edge, often controversial ideas in science, technology, and society. Should you be able to choose your baby’s IQ? Are algorithms really smarter than people? As we face a planet devastated by climate change, what is the future of food? All that and more from The Edge, a podcast for surviving today’s modern world.

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Eclipse-Chasing with Professor Filippenko

Professor Filippenko weighs in on his favorite trip, blue-footed boobies, and more.
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Taste Sicily with Professor Saragoza

Beloved Professor Emeritus Saragoza gives a taste of on Sicily’s mouthwatering culinary traditions.
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Scottish Isles and Norwegian Fjords

Learn about the balmoral hat and other bits of rich Viking and Celtic history from Colonel Fred Rutledge.
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Journey along the Elbe River

Glimpse centuries of history and scenic splendor in Germany and the Czech Republic with Dr. Nadesan Permaul.
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Peregrines in Love

If Berkeley has a celebrity couple, it’s Annie and Grinnell, the peregrine falcons who alighted on the Campanile and have called it home since late 2016. Year after year, the lovebirds have nested and fledged their chicks, generating 24/7 entertainment for those tuning in to the Cal Falcons live cams (first installed in 2019). Viewers have had unprecedented access to the daily lives of a falcon family: first meals, first flights, the one kid who just won’t leave the nest. It was like Jon & Kate Plus 8, but with a lot more dead pigeons and doves. 

Electric Kool-Aid Peer Review

On Good Friday, 1962—five years before the hallucinogen-fueled Summer of Love—something remarkable took place in a chapel on the Boston University campus. The Good Friday Experiment, as it would later be known, was designed by a graduate student at Harvard University named Walter Pahnke under the guidance of professor Timothy Leary. Ten seminary student volunteers were taken to the basement of the Marsh Chapel, provided doses of psilocybin (the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms), and observed as the sounds of the Good Friday service above—sermon, hymns, chanting—were piped in. Pahnke’s aim was to see if psilocybin, delivered under such conditions, could induce a full-blown mystical experience.
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Intolerable Genius: Berkeley’s Most Controversial Nobel Laureate

Kary Mullis revolutionized biology and pissed everyone off. Now that he’s dead, how should we remember him? IN THE SUMMER OF 1984 the senior scientists of Cetus Corp., a Berkeley biotech company, found themselves in a bind. One of their employees, a promising young scientist named Kary Mullis, had dreamed up a technique to exponentially […]
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