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• Lightening Up: Texts From Last Night, Berkeley Style

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 475
  If Anoncon isn’t satisfying all of your procrastination needs, then head over to Facebook (aka the other finals time vortex) and check out the new UC Berkeley Texts From Last Night group. For those who aren’t religious TFLN readers, the site is essentially devoted to incriminating or amusing texts that the ...
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• More With the UC Protesting

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 120
  There will be no condoning of violence from this girl. But I did get a sick little twist of satisfaction when I read the NY Times article about UC students protesting tuition rates . Students from UC Davis and UC Berkeley broke some windows and threw some flaming items at the home of UC Berkeley’s chancellor, ...
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• Ward Churchill Please Call Your Office

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 642
  Now THIS is “chickens coming home to roost. “
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• Don’t give Birgeneau a free pass to shut down student organizing

  
  yaman's amateur ramblings — Authority: 471
  One need not agree with whatever happened at the Chancellor’s mansion to resist the administration’s attempt to co-opt independent student forces by soliciting their blanket condemnation of the incident.Governor Schwarzenegger finally took notice of public education after the incident, calling individuals who were ...
  3 days ago

• UC Berkeley needs you

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 119
  And now we pause for a public service announcement.The University of California, Berkeley (a.k.a. “Cal” to alumni, students and sports fans) is in dire financial straits because of the global financial crisis and California’s own home-grown budget crisis.So, while you’re pondering your year-end charitable ...
  6 days ago

• Budget crisis prompts LAEP students to take a lesson from the Great Depression

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 135
  There are many ways to skin a state-budget crisis, and in the face of California’s, Berkeley landscape architecture and environmental planning students came up with one of their own: a mini-version of the Great Depression’s most enduring public-works program. Putting their landscaping expertise to work at ...
  6 days ago

• New Execution Method Unlikely to Gain Traction in California

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 509
  Thats the title of Carol Williams report in todays Los Angeles Times.  LINK An Ohio murderer put to death with the nations first single-druglethal injection died swiftly Tuesday, inaugurating an execution methodsome analysts consider more humane than the three-drug procedure usedin California and 33 other states. ...
  1 week ago

• UC Berkeley social scientists build case for survival of the kindest

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  Researchers at UC Berkeley are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive. ...
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• H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 123
  Bird influenza viruses have a variety of strategies to cross the species barrier and spreadThe 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent.In a report in this week’s early [...]
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• H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent. Link:  http://www.berkeley.edu
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• Acapella Gaga

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 705
  UC Berkeleys Noteworthy competed at the 9th Annual West Coast Acappella Showcase with this really cute take on Lady Gaga. Loves it. (Via - The Daily What ) Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
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• Electronic Frontier Foundation Files Suit Against the Government

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 574
  Normally I would applaud the effort, but, in  this case the reasoning is a bit flawed. The EFF seems to believe that it is somehow wrong to use information freely put up by persons on social networking sites in ongoing investigations. Excuse me, but does this not fall within the realm of freely available ...
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• Is cannabis the replacement for Brits’ booze addiction?

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Should Brits drop booze for grass?
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• UC must abandon policy of suppressing students with police

  
  yaman's amateur ramblings — Authority: 471
  UC Berkeley administrators are still dodging responsibility for police brutality on Berkeley’s campus during the occupation of Wheeler Hall on November 20. Measures that have been announced are meant to distract the campus community from the crucial fact that the problem is not necessarily with policing policy, but ...
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• SF’s First Lady Dons Local Independent Designers

  
  sfindiefashion.com — Authority: 424
  We were pleased as punch to get a sneak peek at the Bare Magazine December photo shoot with San Francisco First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom and even more so when we glimpsed the work of local designers featured prominently not only within the shoot, but on the magazine’s cover. That delicious poppy-hued dress ...
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• MBA Applicants: What Should You Do Now?

  
  Accepted Admissions Almanac — Authority: 116
  A few bits of communications this week reveal the uncertainly among 2010 MBA applicants now and the new opportunities provided by the earlier Round 1 deadlines/notification dates set by certain schools. Heres what Im referring to: On the BusinessWeek Forum , Todoubled started a fairly active thread with the title ...
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• EFF sues feds: tell us how you use Facebook for cyberstalking

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  The EFF, with the help of a group at the UC Berkeley Law School, has issued a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to federal agencies, asking for their policy on the use of social media content during investigations. Having received no response, theyre now taking six government agencies to court.
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• Higher Education [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  [Berkeley, December 2. Image via Getty ] BERKELEY, CA - DECEMBER 02: Muslim American teenager Shaymaa Mahmoud (R) looks on during her Gender and Womens Studies class at U.C. Berkeley December 2, 2009 in Berkeley, California. Eight years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Muslims in America are once again ...
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• Science Event Pick – H1N1 Update

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 121
  H1N1 flu Back in May, QUEST first reported on the urgency and rush to develop the H1N1 vaccine featuring Art Reingold, head of epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. The concerns largely centered on our vulnerability to the virus, especially for healthy individuals. In September, QUEST updated ...
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• 12/5/09: In Conversation with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia | Berkeley

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 512
  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 ...
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