Berkeley

Welcome to the 'Berkeley' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Berkeley'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Berkeley”

• His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama: Peace Through Compassion

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 146
  In the remotest parts of Tibet, the American Himalayan Foundation has been working quietly as a lifeline for people who have no one else. Over a dozen years AHF has built 33 schools where Tibetans learn in their own language, 24 bridges over dangerous rivers, and eight clean water systems for villages. They shelter ...
  5 hours ago

• 12/5/09: In Conversation with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia | Berkeley

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 439
  In this edition of the free UC Regents Lecture series entitled “Welcome to the New World,” Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, discusses the history and impact of Wikipedia globally, as well as current trends on the Internet and his work at Wikia. In January of 2001, Jimmy Wales started Wikipedia.org, the online ...
  7 hours ago

• 12/7/09: Sonic Immersion with Kronos Quartet | Berkeley

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 439
  Berkeley Center for New Media/Art Techonology & Culture Colloquium [ATC] presents: David Harrington, Sonic Immersion Through more than three decades of work with the Kronos Quartet, David Harrington has had a major impact on contemporary music. Kronos commissions works from composers who re-envision what a ...
  10 hours ago

• The Long String Instrument (And Tons of Other FREE Events This Weekend)

  
  Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website — Authority: 512
  Really Long Strings I wrote yesterday about another Friday night event , but luckily the timing works out so you can go to both.  Head to the East Bay and make a night of it!  A couple weeks ago I posted about all the ins and outs of the Berkeley Art Museum and their L@te Friday Night events .  This ...
  14 hours ago

• Alternatives to Santa Claus?

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 142
  Here is something I never considered, even though we live in an area as diverse as the San Francisco Bay Area. What do you tell children not raised with Santa Claus about Santa -- especially if you do not want to ruin the surprise for their believing peers? Here is a timely and interesting letter from Berkeley ...
  17 hours ago

• Name the Author: ‘Toast Yourselves, Black America’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  One day after President Barack Obama delivered a war strategy speech that left many feeling wary, it’s become time to play a new game I’m calling, “Name the Author.”Read the words below and see if you can guess who wrote them two days after Obama won the election as the nation’s first black ...
  21 hours ago

• Best U.S. Cell Phone Carriers

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 455
  Earlier today, Consumer Reports announced their annual survey of the best domestic Cell Phone Carriers. After taking customer surveys across 26 cities, they found Verizon Wireless to top the list and AT&T at the bottom. AT&T came in last in 19 of the 26 cities they surveyed. While Verizon and AT&T are in a ...
  23 hours ago

• Scott McLemee FTW!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 721
  He reviews Cornel West and David Ritz (2009), Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud : Decline of the West : Ten years ago, in the final pages of a collection of his selected writings, Cornel West gave readers a look at the work he had in progress, or at least in mind, for the years ahead. One would be “a ...
  23 hours ago

• There’s More Jobs In a Clean MW Than a Dirty MW

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 636
  While there are a lot of varying reports on how many green jobs will or will not be created in the coming years, here’s an interesting statistic on the characteristics of a clean power job versus its fossil fuel equivalent: According to research from the Copenhagen Climate Council, “the renewable energy sector ...
  1 day ago

• ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: GIRL CRAZY

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 599
  On this day in 1943, M-G-M released GIRL CRAZY. Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY and NORMAN TAUROG, this is one of the ‘greats’ in the M-G-M musical catalog. JUDY GARLAND and MICKEY ROONEY star in this ‘rich boy falls for college dean’s daughter’ story that’s held together by the songs of GEORGE and IRA ...
  1 day ago

• Manufacture for Green and Sustainable Design

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 606
  Mirriam Webster defines ubiquitous as “existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread” and gives the example “a ubiquitous fashion.” The adverb ubiquitously means, essentially, in a ubiquitous manner. Another term that could be used here is holistic – meaning incorporating ...
  1 day ago

• The Middle East: Reporting an Enigma … Alan Caruba

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  The Middle East: Reporting an Enigma By Alan Caruba ************** When President Obama delivers a speech on why he is going to send more thousands of U.S. troops and spend more billions on the eight-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, it would be a good idea to better understand why so much of what is ...
  1 day ago

• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
  1 day ago

• [OCC] Next Open Coffee Club Bangalore meetup on 6th December

  
  Technofriends — Authority: 140
  The next meetup of Open Coffee Club Bangalore is scheduled to happen on 6th December 2009. The venue of the meetup is yet to be decided and once their is a confirmation, this post will be updated. This OCC meetup will have an informal discussion with Mr Samir Patel who happens to be in Bangalore for a few days. Samir ...
  1 day ago

• Berkeley, Naturally! – A New Nature Site by Steven Goodheart

  
  Madang - Ples Bilong Mi — Authority: 131
  Our regular correspondent Steven Goodheart of MettaRefuge has begun work on another blog with which he will dazzle us with his knowledge of nature and science (no kidding). Hop over to Berkeley, Naturally! to see how he’s coming along. Bookmark it. You won’t regret it. Interesting photographs – ...
  1 day ago

• EFF Sues US Agencies Over Social Networking Disclosures

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 168
  San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen governme...
  1 day ago

• 12/17/09: Mystery Graphic Novel Reading “Incognegro” | Berkeley

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 439
  Frank Wilderson discusses “Incognegro,” a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America.
  1 day ago

• University Scholars Upbeat on COP15

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 636
  The leaders of several university energy departments were solidly optimistic about the prospects of the international climate talks that begin in Copenhagen next week at an event at Google’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday night. While Google grabbed our attention at the event by indicating the search engine ...
  1 day ago

• University Scholars Upbeat on COP15

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  The leaders of several university energy departments were solidly optimistic about the prospects of the international climate talks that begin in Copenhagen next week at an event at Google’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday night. While Google grabbed our attention at the event by indicating the search engine ...
  1 day ago

• Feynman “is a second Dirac, only this time human”

  
  Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog — Authority: 124
  Great quotes from Oppenheimer’s recommendation of Richard Feynman “He is by all odds the most brilliant young physicist here, and everyone knows this. He is a man of thoroughly engaging character and personality, extremely clear, extremely normal in all respects, and an excellent teacher with a warm feeling for ...
  1 day ago

Comments about Berkeley