Ranked #1
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
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53mins
Ranked #2
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
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #3
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
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #4
'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
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32mins
Ranked #5
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
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28mins
Ranked #6
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
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #7
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #8
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
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1hr 37mins
Ranked #9
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #10
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
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42mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #12
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
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34mins
Ranked #13
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
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51mins
Ranked #14
#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
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50mins
Ranked #15
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
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54mins
Ranked #16
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
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43mins
Ranked #17
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
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28mins
Ranked #18
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
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1hr
Ranked #19
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
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #20
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
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35mins