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Ananya Roy and her colleagues at the #GlobalPOV Project, an initiative of UC Berkeley’s Blum Center for Developing Economies, have just released a stunning new illustrated video that explores the business of poverty. Roy is the author of Encountering Poverty (forthcoming from UC Press), a path-breaking book that will consolidate a new field of inquiry: global poverty studies. Watch the [more...]  “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”—Wallace Stegner The new documentary series by Ken Burns, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, premieres this Sunday, September 27 on PBS. The 6-episode series chronicles America’s national parks through the stories of people [more...] As announced last week, University of California Press author Harryette Mullen received the 2009 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, one of the most distinguished awards in poetry in the United States. Here, Mullen reads her work at the Lunch Poems Noontime Poetry Reading Series, directed by Robert Hass, at UC Berkeley in [more...] Just a reminder that the Bay Bridge will be closed starting tonight, September 3, 2009 and reopening on September 7, 2009 at 5:00am. View a simulation of the amazing architectural and engineering feat they are going to attempt this weekend. Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and Professor of Sociology at New York University was on the Colbert Report yesterday to confirm Stephen’s fear that there is a sugar shortage in America. Watch now: The Colbert Report Sugar Shortage – Marion Nestle www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Sand, is all around us—it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. There are lessons to be learned from sand. The Fast Draw’s (cnet.com) Mitch Butler and Josh Landis explain: Want to learn more about sand? Told by a geologist [more...]
by Michael Long, Author of Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media (2008) Like plenty of others, I wondered what shape Michael Jackson’s memorial service in the Staples Center would ultimately take. One thing I was sure of was that it would almost certainly feature a big-moment performance of “Smile.” (It did. See [more...] On your list of activities that you need to think twice about, you probably haven’t penciled in cancer screening, but a recent article in the New York Times could have you reaching for the nearest writing utensil. The title of Natasha Singer’s article, In Push for Cancer Screening, Limited Benefits, pretty much says it all. [more...] Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that’s because he did not have access to [more...] “Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Wonder, meticulously researched wonder may be the first thing that shines through any interview or performance by Richard Milner. A science historian, Darwin expert, troubador, songwriter, anthropologist, editor, and author Milner was interviewed in the New York Times earlier this year about [more...] |
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