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Fighting about Phones
“Chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm may be present in foods or beverages sold or served here.” This official looking sign, smacked...
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Plastic, pop and the poor
“I wouldn’t be caught dead using one of those,” I said looking at my mom’s green reusable shopping bag. Fast-forward seven years and you can catch me exiting Safeway with two reusable canvas bags...
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A salty solution
“California is in a drought.” It’s hard to go a couple of days without hearing that phrase. Our state is in the middle of one of the region’s most severe droughts ever recorded. Historically, runoff...
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The weight behind a word
A UC Berkeley physics building and a local elementary school both share a controversial namesake: LeConte. The LeConte brothers were influential professors at UC Berkeley during the 1860s, and the...
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I got some saltwater in my house
It can be shocking to return home after a semester at college. Subtle changes to the community you grew up in seem novel and conspicuous. A new building here, a massive tree cut down there. A road got...
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Atomic advancement
A gull glides gracefully over the Pacific, 15 miles off the California coast. His eyes are cast downward as he scans the water below for signs of food. Thwack. Feathers fly and the ocean is splattered...
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The one-car model
Six days ago, a Mountain View police officer pulled over a Google self-driving car for traveling 24 miles per hour on a road with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour. Five days ago, I took the BART into...
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Misdirected good will
Think of a big crowd. California Memorial Stadium’s capacity is 63,000 people. The Big House at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the largest stadium in the United States, fits 107,601. Picture...
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Cloudy with a chance of carbon dioxide
In the aftermath of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in France, President Obama traveled to Paris and began a dialogue with other world leaders. But the president did not travel across the Atlantic to...
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Campaigning with clicks
I cannot count the number of instances I have had to sidestep oblivious students walking through Sproul Plaza with their heads down, immersed in their smartphones rather than what is immediately in...
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