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Mind & body

Science of Happiness: Finding common ground in uncomfortable times - Audio

In this episode of the Greater Good Science Center podcast, students and educators are discovering how listening, curiosity and everyday conversations can open pathways across differences and help restore a sense of shared humanity.

Humanities

New book ‘Carryout’ illuminates life in a Midwestern Arab diaspora

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The new math of urban wildfires

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Automating the art of grasping

Berkeley Talks: What punk subcultures can teach us about resisting hate - Audio

How do Californians tolerate extreme inequality?

How worried should you be about Ebola?

Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it. - Video

This professor uses data to reveal hidden patterns in centuries of human storytelling - Video

Violence against women remains high — particularly for marginalized groups

Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae

For Black Americans, wealth offers scant protection from pregnancy risks, scholar finds

New visiting scholars will spend the summer advancing education research, building networks

W. M. Keck Foundation Bridge Funding Initiative awards grants to seven faculty and their doctoral students

Homeless people need more than shelter to achieve well-being, study finds

Five takeaways from UC Berkeley’s new survey on psychedelics in society

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