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Published September 17, 2014
Invisible Users
Invisible Users, a book by UC Berkeley's Jenna Burrell, explores the youth culture of Internet cafés in Ghana, which upends expectations about the power and purpose of technology.
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Published September 11, 2014
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant farmworkers are subject to social and economic inequalities that put them at greater risk of hardship and injury, according to a book by UC Berkeley’s Seth Holmes.
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Article
Published September 5, 2014
Struggles of a Class Worrier
Governments have to do more to reduce income inequality, says UC Berkeley's Robert Reich.
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Article
Published September 3, 2014
Snapping Back from Disaster
UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management seeks new approaches for mitigating the impacts of disasters on large-scale infrastructure systems.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
ADHD Explosion
UC Berkeley Professors Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard M. Scheffler argue that ADHD must be understood as a result of both social conditions and biology.
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Published August 6, 2014
A Critical Take on Cities
UC Berkeley's Critical Urbanisms Working Group draws upon diverse disciplines to re-examine cities and how they are planned and managed.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
Invited Interventions
Research by UC Berkeley Political Scientist Aila Matanock sheds light on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
Take No Prisoners
Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.
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Article
Published August 6, 2014
Decline of the City-State
UC Berkeley historian Mark Peterson writes about the prominence—and ultimate decline—of city-states, using 18th- and 19th-century Boston as an example.
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Article
Published August 4, 2014
The Happy App
Tchiki Davis, a Berkeley social psychology Ph.D. candidate, is building an app to boost happiness.
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Published August 4, 2014
Dangerous Knowledge
An interdisciplinary working group at UC Berkeley aims to better understand how breakthrough scientific discoveries have been—and should be—regulated.
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Article
Published August 4, 2014
Playing with Kids Pays Off Economically
A groundbreaking study by UC Berkeley researchers shows that playing with children has a profound impact on their future incomes.
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