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Berkeley Talks

A Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Richard Rothstein on how our government segregated America

Richard Rothstein on how our government segregated America

Richard Rothstein, a fellow of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and author of The Color of Law: A For... Read more

21 Feb 2019

53mins

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Berkeley Law Professor Daniel Farber on presidential power and individual rights

Berkeley Law Professor Daniel Farber on presidential power and individual rights

Presidential power is always a hot topic, but never more so than today. This lecture, given by Berkeley Law Professor Da... Read more

7 Jan 2019

1hr 15mins

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Neurobiologist David Presti on the ritual use of psychoactive plants

Neurobiologist David Presti on the ritual use of psychoactive plants

For millennia, humans have cultivated deep relationships with psychoactive plants — relationships embedded within and gu... Read more

28 Mar 2019

1hr 7mins

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'New York Times' editor on the future of fact-based journalism

'New York Times' editor on the future of fact-based journalism

Dean Baquet is the executive editor of the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. In February 2019, he ... Read more

13 Jun 2019

32mins

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Professor Rucker Johnson on why school integration works

Professor Rucker Johnson on why school integration works

Brown v. Board of Education was hailed as a landmark decision for civil rights. But decades later, many consider school ... Read more

18 Apr 2019

28mins

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Jennifer Doudna on the future of gene editing

Jennifer Doudna on the future of gene editing

Jennifer Doudna spoke at UC Berkeley's International House on Feb. 21, 2019, about the revolutionary gene-editing tool s... Read more

11 Apr 2019

1hr 25mins

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Professor Emerita Beverly Crawford on lies about migrants

Professor Emerita Beverly Crawford on lies about migrants

"If rights aren't enforced, do they really exist?" asks Beverly Crawford, a professor emerita of political science and i... Read more

27 Dec 2019

1hr 1min

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Economist Samuel Bowles on why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens

Economist Samuel Bowles on why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens

It is widely held today on grounds of prudence — if not realism — that in designing public policy and legal systems, we ... Read more

5 Aug 2019

1hr 37mins

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Michael Pollan with Dacher Keltner on the new science of psychedelics

Michael Pollan with Dacher Keltner on the new science of psychedelics

In his latest book, How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan turns his focus to psychedelics — LSD, psilocybin mushrooms ... Read more

17 Mar 2019

1hr 2mins

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Joel Moskowitz on the health risks of cell phone radiation

Joel Moskowitz on the health risks of cell phone radiation

As of 2017, there were more than 273 million smartphones in use in the country and 5 billion subscriber connections worl... Read more

19 Jul 2019

42mins

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Anthropologist Eugenie Scott on evolution and creationism as science and myth

Anthropologist Eugenie Scott on evolution and creationism as science and myth

Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, munda... Read more

30 Nov 2018

1hr 12mins

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Programmer and author Ellen Ullman on her life in code

Programmer and author Ellen Ullman on her life in code

Ellen Ullman is a computer programmer, essayist on technology and culture and an author of four books — two nonfiction a... Read more

1 Apr 2019

34mins

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Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design

Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual and design advocate who works at the intersect... Read more

30 Jan 2019

51mins

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#SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality

#SandraBlandMystery: Aaminah Norris on the transmedia story of police brutality

Aaminah Norris is an assistant professor at Sacramento State in the College of Education. She has more than 20 years of ... Read more

6 Jul 2019

50mins

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Dr. Joe Tafur on the role of spiritual and emotional healing in modern healthcare

Dr. Joe Tafur on the role of spiritual and emotional healing in modern healthcare

Drawing from his first-hand experience at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual, a traditional healing center near Iquitos in the ... Read more

2 May 2019

54mins

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Calculating your carbon footprint and the Cool Campus Challenge

Calculating your carbon footprint and the Cool Campus Challenge

1.5 degrees Celsius. That's the maximum global temperature increase allowable before we see catastrophic impacts on food... Read more

2 Apr 2019

43mins

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Ph.D. candidate Rosalie Lawrence on how our cells make decisions

Ph.D. candidate Rosalie Lawrence on how our cells make decisions

On Nov. 6, 2018, Ph.D. candidate in molecular and cell biology Rosalie Lawrence gave an interview on KALX's program, "Th... Read more

29 Jan 2019

28mins

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Professor Michael Omi on racial classification in the census

Professor Michael Omi on racial classification in the census

How are individuals and groups racially classified? What are the meanings attached to different racial categories? And w... Read more

13 Mar 2019

1hr

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Chilean novelist Isabel Allende on war, loss and healing

Chilean novelist Isabel Allende on war, loss and healing

"People say, 'Oh no, the institutions in the United States can support anything. We are safe.' No, beware. Nothing is sa... Read more

25 Jan 2020

1hr 3mins

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Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo

Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo

"We are here in the middle of the first mass movement against sexual abuse in the history of the world," said Catharine ... Read more

7 Jun 2019

35mins

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