The Man Who Shot the Unabomber’s Cabin
By Leah WorthingtonThe hideout was evidence, a symbol, and in Richard Barnes’s photos, art.
2023 Fall/Winter
Ken Goldberg Isn’t Scared of Artificial Intelligence
By Coby McDonaldRobots can do a great many things, but they can’t make art. That view, common even among AI boosters, has taken a hit.
What’s on Your Berkeley-Inspired Playlist?
By Pat JosephWhile music may not be the first thing most people think of when they think of Berkeley, both the campus and town have been home to an enormously influential and eclectic music scene across the years, one with deep roots in the folk and blues revivals of the mid-20th century.
How the Pac-12 Meltdown Sent Cal Packing
By Margie CullenThe Bears’ new conference is all the way across the continent.
Spying the Secrets of Creativity
By Coby McDonaldIn late January of 1958, five of America’s most renowned writers converged in a repurposed frat house just off the Berkeley campus for what promised to be a long, strange weekend.
Walk of Life
By Pat JosephAccording to what has long been the dominant theory, the first humans to settle North America arrived via the Aleutian land bridge from Asia sometime between 16,000 and 13,000 years ago, after Ice Age glaciers receded.
Blog Calls out Bogus Data
By Pat JosephIt was a new wrinkle in a bombshell story. Not one, but two superstar researchers appear to have independently faked data for two separate, highly publicized studies about (irony of ironies!)
How to Turn Desert Air Into Water
By Esther OhMetal organic frameworks offer solutions to "the greatest problems facing our planet."
What Your Brain Sounds Like On Music
By Pat JosephUsing artificial intelligence software, Berkeley scientists successfully reconstructed the Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall” from recordings made of electrical activity in patients’ brains as they listened.
Same Bat Channel
By Margie CullenBats, they’re just like us!
Botox, Green Screens, and “Factor X”
By Pat JosephMore things you never knew came from Cal
They Don’t Exist, But They Went to Cal
By Pat JosephFictional characters with Berkeley backgrounds
6 Questions for Pulitzer Prizewinner Hua Hsu
By Hayden RoysterThe New Yorker writer and author on his memoir of Berkeley
Normal (Asian) Lives
By Esther OhFans of comics wunderkind Adrian Tomine may have rested easy upon seeing the film adaptation of his 2007 graphic novel Shortcomings this past summer.
Hot and Getting Hotter
By Pat JosephGoodell examines the most obvious effect of warming: Extreme heat.
Marshawn Lynch Acts Like an Actor
By the editors at California magazine… and other Berkeley movies, books, and entertainment
The Man Who Came to Class by Plane
By Bill Zhou, M.Eng. ’23 As told to Margie Cullen, M.J. ’22I really loved transportation growing up.
Clearing a High Bar
By Pat JosephIt may not say so on the cover, but the organizing theme of this issue is creativity—what it is, how it works, what it says about us as human beings.
Berkeley Goes to Silicon Valley—and Space!
By Chancellor Carol T. ChristWe have recently been reminded that creativity comes in packages large and small.
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