University of California-Berkeley

Criminal Genius: Troubled Kids Become Successful Entrepreneurs

Your Criminal Kid Is Probably Going to be the Next Mark Zuckerberg, Study Says

For those tired parents who are stashing money specifically because they know they'll be bailing their punk-ass kid out of juvenile jail again, just know, there's going to be a return on your hard-earned cash. A new study conducted by UC Berkeley scholars shows that badly behaved children tend to ... More >>

Your Bosses Really Don't Care If You Don't Invite Them to Office Happy Hours, Study Says

Maybe you don't actually need to worry about getting fired if you gently tell your boss that his or her ideas are fucking stupid. A new study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley says that people in positions of authority -- whether at home or in the workplace -- are quicker to recover from mil ... More >>

UC College Girls Tap Sugar Daddies for Tuition

UC college chicks don't need daddy to pay for school and all those four-year parties anymore, but what they do need are their sugar daddies. A new study shows that an increasing number of female students from UC Berkeley and UC Davis are tapping sugar daddies for college tuition -- and they have hi ... More >>

Go Back to School With Edible Schoolyard

Edible Schoolyard has teamed up with UC Berkeley to bring us the second year of Edible Education 103, a series of Tuesday night lectures about food and agriculture with a different guest lecturer each week. The lectures are moderated by Knight Professor of Journalism and general god-among-foodies, M ... More >>

Occupy The Farm: Police Arrest Sleeping Protesters

Early this morning, Occupy farmers released a statement, explaining that they agreed to peacefully leave the Gill Tract by 10 a.m., and have already started breaking down the encampment on the site that they have taken over since April 22. However, it doesn't appear that police are waiting around fo ... More >>

Occupy the Farm: Police Lock Gates, Actually Allowing Occupiers to Continue Occupying

Rather than raid the Occupy Farm where protesters have been squatting and planting seeds for three weeks, police have come up with a curiously clever idea that actually keeps protesters on the site. According to Occupy the Farm, police came in around noon yesterday and chained up the fences around t ... More >>

Man Shot at UC Berkeley

Someone shot at Berkeley ​Update (3:40 p.m.): According to the media relations office, the suspect was seen carrying a gun on campus. Police were contacted and spotted the man who was walking into the building's computer lab. Police followed the man, ordering him to put his hands up. When the man ... More >>

Jewish Students Sue UC Berkeley for Allowing "Violent Anti-Semitic Attacks"

Apartheid Week on the UC Berkeley Campus, 2009​Two Jewish UC Berkeley students are suing the school, claiming that the UC Berkeley administration failed to halt "violent anti-Semitic attacks and a hostile environment" created by two pro-Palestinian groups on campus. Plaintiff Jessica Felber, who ... More >>

Japan Radiation Makes its Way into Milk

It does a body good ... or does it?​Before you pour that next bowl of cereal, read this: Scientists in Berkeley told reporters that indeed the radioactive plum from the disastrous nuclear leak in Japan has made its way into an American staple -- milk.The good news is that scientists said the low l ... More >>

Baylinks: Original Gangstas, Detainment, & Crackers

Straight reppin' Marina OGs​Rep yo area and flash a Sucka Free City sign [Burrito Justice]Protesters call Obama a "cracker" -- hopefully of the delicious variety. [Contra Costa Blog]Gunman enters Children's Hospital emergency room in Oakland [SFGate]

Baylinks: Golden Tickets, Target, & Online Degrees

​Get your online degree from University of Phoenix UC Berkeley [The Daily Clog]Willy Wonka comes down from his sugar high and picks up a pie [Grub Street San Francisco]Disgruntled hotel workers march in Union Square [NBC Bay Area] 

Straight Talk About Brain Slices

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Hip-Hop in the Park Keeps the Culture Alive

EKAphotography"Why you trippin? I built your new casa!!" Hip-hop, in Berkeley? Yes yes y'all. Even the threat of rain couldn't stop the 13th Annual Hip-Hop in the Park Festival from going down this past Saturday at People's Park. A core audience mainly culled from all the beats-and-rhymes heads at ... More >>

Speak Often, and People Will Hand You the Big Stick

This is the enemy...Although I'm not sure we needed any more evidence that people tend to be followers with terrible judgment, researchers at UC Berkeley have provided it. Their study on perception of competence, recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, ... More >>

Everything's Coming Up Meat!

Carnivores can study, taste, and feast on all things fleshy.

What Drives Women

Snorkeling Berkeley Scientists are Peeping Toms

Newsom Wants to Install More Useless Surveillance Cameras

Hot, Hot, Hot: Agriculture in a Warmer World

Berkeley to Marine Recruiters: Oops.

'Ask a Scientist' About Synesthesia Wednesday, Or Lick A Toad -- Same Diff

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Your Monday Morning Hangover

SF Government In Action: Special 'Hypocrisy' Edition.

Welcome Back to School, Now Stop the Downloading

Week of August 29 - September 4, 2007

Sitting In

Twenty-five artists, five spaces, five weeks, and a multitude of visions

The Chronicles of Ridicule

Only the San Francisco Chronicle makes so many mistakes that it is forced to waste paper partaking in meta-meta-journalism

The Counter-Counterculture

Ah, to be young and Republican at Cal

Best Romantic Date for Outdoorsy Types

Full Moon Paddles

Fight Club

Wushu and kung fu go head-to-head

Runner's World

Reps Etc.

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

Hail to the Ex-Chief

Clinton gets the rock star treatment at UC Berkeley; Chron Covers Enron-Size Bust

Looking for God at Berkeley

A provocative theory called "intelligent design" claims evolution is hogwash. But it's not the usual religious zealots leading the latest attack on Darwin. It's scientists and professors at Cal.

Night + Day

Reel World

Time Signatures

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Affirmative Reaction

Even with Proposition 209, there are proven ways to help minority kids get to college

Second Time Around

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Seismic Punt

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

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