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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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Jessica Morse on how we can live with fire

Jessica Morse on how we can live with fire

In this Berkeley Talks episode, Jessica Morse, the deputy secretary for forest and wildland resilience at the California... Read more

28 Jul 2023

1hr 25mins

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Siri creator Adam Cheyer shares secrets of entrepreneurship

Siri creator Adam Cheyer shares secrets of entrepreneurship

Siri creator Adam Cheyer talks about the long road to launching the virtual assistant, how to take an entrepreneurial id... Read more

14 Jul 2023

1hr 26mins

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Poets laureate share works about creation, sacrifice and home

Poets laureate share works about creation, sacrifice and home

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Biden economic adviser on building a clean energy economy

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Heather Boushey, a member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) and chief economist to the Investing i... Read more

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Climate grief: Embracing loss as a catalyst for collective action

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Journalist and climate activist Naomi Klein joins Indigenous scholar Yuria Celidwen and posthumanist thinker Bayo Akomol... Read more

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Pulitzer-winner Natalie Wolchover: 'Knowledge of physics is a superpower'

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30 May 2023

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Sociology Ph.D. graduates on the power of family and deep inquiry

Sociology Ph.D. graduates on the power of family and deep inquiry

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Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones to graduates: 'The world needs your imagination'

Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones to graduates: 'The world needs your imagination'

In an impassioned keynote address to graduates of UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, Tennessee state Rep. Ju... Read more

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How a lie from medieval Europe spread antisemitism across the world

How a lie from medieval Europe spread antisemitism across the world

Magda Teter, professor of history and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University and author of the 2020 ... Read more

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