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- Intolerable Genius: Berkeley's Most Controversial Nobel Laureate (2019) https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2019/intolerable-genius-berkeleys-most-controversial-nobel-laureate/ 24 comments
- Math Education Needs Reform. It Got a War Instead https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/2024-fall-winter/math-education-needs-reform-it-got-a-war-instead/ 2 comments
- The Starship or the Canoe: Where will our future adaptations be? (2017) https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2017-adaptation/starship-or-canoe-where-will-our-future-adaptations-be/ 92 comments
- The Eunuch Admiral (2011) https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2011-the-good-fight/eunuch-admiral/ 27 comments
- Clifford Stoll beat the Russians, then made useless, wondrous objects (2016) https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2016-war-stories/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made/ 154 comments
- In 1986 an astronomer traced a $0.75 time discrepancy to German hackers and KGB https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2016-war-stories/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made 3 comments
- In Flew Enza: Remembering the Plague Year in Berkeley https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2017-bugged/flew-enza-remembering-plague-year-berkeley 2 comments
- The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2019-06-14/chalk-market-where-mathematicians-go-get-good-stuff 118 comments
- How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians–Then Made Useless, Wondrous Objects https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2016-war-stories/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made 2 comments
- Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix That? http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2015-breaking-news/giving-credence-why-so-much-reported-science-wrong-and 51 comments
- Experts Are Trying to Make Machines Be “Moral” http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2015-06-08/good-bad-and-robot-experts-are-trying-make-machines-be-moral 9 comments
- Goodbye to Sasha Shulgin, Godfather of Psychedelics http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-08-04/goodbye-godfather-psychedelics-sasha-shulgin-now-tripping 63 comments
- 'Why I am not canceling class tomorrow' http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2013-11-21/cal-lecturers-email-students-goes-viral-why-i-am-not 10 comments
- "Suppose I was an evil person and wanted to eliminate the curiosity of children. Give the kid a diet of Google, and pretty soon the child learns that every question he has is answered instantly." https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2016-war-stories/how-berkeley-eccentric-beat-russians-and-then-made 3 comments degoogle
- Uniquely Golden: Single-Payer May Work in California https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2017-04-11/uniquely-golden-single-payer-may-work-california 5 comments politics
- Barriers Abound to Trump's Border Wall https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2017-02-06/barriers-abound-trumps-border-wall 4 comments politics
- My dad refuses to buy AirPods based on this, I disagree but what are your opinions? http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2016-10-18/clear-sound-sleek-styling-and-microwave-radiation 43 comments apple
- Reconsidering Socialism: Younger Voters No Longer See the Label as Toxic – "Sanders’s platform hardly looks like radical socialism. Instead, it is what nearly every Democratic voter would support deep down and what most Americans realize is fair." http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2016-01-29/reconsidering-socialism-younger-voters-no-longer-see-label 309 comments politics
- Philosophy's Popularity Soars: Devotees Find It's More Than 'An Interesting Path to Poverty' http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-03-25/philosophys-popularity-soars-devotees-find-its-more 15 comments nottheonion
- Philosophy's Popularity Soars: Devotees Find It's More Than 'An Interesting Path to Poverty' http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-03-25/philosophys-popularity-soars-devotees-find-its-more 72 comments philosophy
- Cal lecturer's email to students goes viral: "Why I am not canceling class tomorrow" http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2013-11-21/cal-lecturers-email-students-goes-viral-why-i-am-not 3 comments politics
- One of the "weirdest feuds in the history of science" just got weirder. Iconoclastic Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes—who galled a big corporate UC research funder by concluding its herbicide atrazine harmed frogs—has lost his lab funding. Retaliation? Or are critics leaping to conclusions? http://alumni.berkeley.edu/blog/california-magazine/20130816/hopping-mad-frog-researcher-who-galls-industry-loses-uc-lab-funds 7 comments science
- "Nones" -- atheist, agnostic, or no stated religious preference -- grew to 15% of US population in 2008. "That means there are as many Nones (35M) as there are African Americans and Hispanics, and more than Jews. In other words, there are enough to demand a place at the table." http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/spring-2011-articles-faith/get-thee-nonery 666 comments politics