The City That Made Her
By Urja UpadhyayaShe left high school in the middle of 10th grade, experienced housing insecurity while at Cal, and never set out to be mayor. Now she runs the city that made her.
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By Urja UpadhyayaFlorian Pestoni watched brilliant robotics founders hit the same wall, over and over. So he built the infrastructure to catch them.
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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?
The Man Who Shot the Unabomber’s Cabin
By Leah WorthingtonThe hideout was evidence, a symbol, and in Richard Barnes’s photos, art.
Election Polls Are Only 60 Percent Accurate, Which Is 0 Percent Surprising.
For many Americans, Donald Trump’s 2016 victory came as a shock, especially considering how much he’d trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls. Even FiveThirtyEight founder and famed pollster Nate Silver got it wrong. But UC Berkeley business professor Don Moore thinks we should cut Silver some slack.
