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May 28, 2008
Eugene Tsui Says It’s Time for Thinking Big
A two-mile high tower shaped like a termite mound that could house the entire population of San Francisco. A twisting skyscraper in Taiwan that...
May 14, 2008
Framing Issues Is Hard; Just Ask George Lakoff
The Rockridge Institute closed down at the end of April not with a bang but a whimper. Staffers who had been drawn to the...
Apr 30, 2008
Preschool + Trees + Hope = Health
Here's Dr. Tony Iton's prescription for a healthy West Oakland population: Take a good dose of preschool, add a bunch of trees, regular exercises...
Apr 16, 2008
The Planet That Plays Together Stays Together
In recent weeks, avid computer gamers in Iowa, Texas, New Zealand, and Brazil have congregated in empty parking lots and grassy fields, standing shoulder-to-shoulder...
Apr 2, 2008
Drink Your Beef Tea and Pipe Down
Eat food. Not too much. Lots of bone broth and organ meat. With apologies to Michael Pollan's excellent In Defense of Food, that's how...
Mar 19, 2008
Activist Phones and Long-Term Research
Eric Paulos works a dream job at Intel Research Berkeley, a suite of labs and offices on the top floor of the Power Bar...
Mar 5, 2008
Nuclear CSI: New Deterrence for a New Era
Measured on a geological time scale — say, the 704 million year half-life of uranium-235 — the sixteen years since the USSR decayed into...
Feb 20, 2008
Nice People Gain Power, (Which Makes Them Less Nice)
Back in September of 2000, professor Dacher Keltner walked into the Cal dormitory he had selected for his latest social psychology experiment. The students...