Posts by Sean Patrick Farrell

Arts & culture

The roots of the groove of African American pop music, explained

Watch UC Berkeley historian Rickey Vincent explain how artists from Nina Simone to Sister Rosetta Tharpe have shaped American pop music.

Politics & society

Watch as traffic safety research is explained in 101 seconds

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Humanities

Watch a professor explain the internet’s series of subsea tubes in 101 seconds

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Research

With AI and linguistics, this professor is decoding how animals and humans communicate

smiling woman on a gray background. An inset image of a paintbrush and pallete.

Watch UC Berkeley’s Executive Dean of Letters and Science explain the liberal arts in 101 seconds

UC Berkeley professor Noah Whiteman.

Watch a professor explain the evolutionary war that gave us caffeine

UC Berkeley biogeography professor Stephanie Pau sits beside a still image of a satellite mapping the Earth.

This scientist uses satellites to map the Earth’s plant life — and help combat climate change

Biologist Victor Ortega Jiménez sits before the camera next to a still image of a hummingbird eating from a feeder.

Watch a biologist explain how animals move in 101 seconds

Jay Graham, professor of public health, with an inset close up image of a water sample in a jar.

Watch an environmental health professor explain wastewater woes

UC Berkeley professor of psychology looks at a still frame from the Pixar film 'Inside Out 2'

UC Berkeley professor breaks down the science of ‘Inside Out 2’

A still of Raka Ray, the dean of sociology at UC Berkeley, next to a superimposed photo of a man holding a magnifying glass

Sociologists are the detectives of the social world, says UC Berkeley dean of social sciences

UC Berkeley professor Nicole Holliday seated next to a still of Kamala Harris

When Kamala Harris is speaking, this professor is listening

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky talks to the camera next to a still photo of protestors holding a banner that reads

Watch the dean of Berkeley Law explain free speech in 101 seconds

UC Berkeley Professor Hany Farid sits speaking to the camera next to a still of

Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes

UC Berkeley professor Randy Schekman looks into the camera with a still image of microscopic yeast cells behind him

How looking closely led this cell biologist to world-changing breakthroughs

Landscape architect Walter Hood sits, smiling, as he speaks to the camera next to a still photo of a bridge.

Landscape architecture is more people than plants, says UC Berkeley professor