The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom: With the Divisions of the Abhisamayalankara (Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Uc Berkeley)
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A "$258,000 bequest from Hines' estate will help support a UC Berkeley program that provides free music lessons to gifted low-income children in grades four to 12." The late jazz pianist "lived in Oakland and once lectured on the Berkeley campus."...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Rockridge BART Station, College Ave, Oakland
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
UC Students Occupy Wheeler Hall ( Berkeley Campus) " LIVE WEEK" 24 hour a day events including Skillshares, dance parties, study sessions, teach ins club meetings, talent shows, concerts and anything else you want to do.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley has been reclaimed for "Live Week" as a public space for use as a 24-hour university open to everyone, students and non-students alike. The reclamation continues throughout the week and supporters are encouraged to come and participate at all hours of the day.
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
The University of California, Berkeley's Media Vault Program has posted a progress report. Here's an excerpt: Media Vault Program partners offer a number of specialized tools to help campus researchers manage their materials. These include: WebGenDL (UCB Library Systems) — the library's internal system for managing, creating, preserving and discovering digital library content. These tools...
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The Death of a Public Law School, by Benjamin Eisenberg (J.D. 2011, UC-Berkeley): The University of California Berkeley Law School is poised to become the most expensive publicly owned law school in the world. Over the next two years, fees will increase by 32%. That means...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Researchers at the University of California, 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.
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
UC Berkeley's 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.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
A tour of Wheeler Hall during the first night of Live Week. This video was shot around 12:30 a.m., shortly after the police guards on the doors decided to let everyone come and go as they please.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Starting Monday, December 7 on the steps of Wheeler Hall at 2:30 p.m., we will transform Wheeler Hall into a 24-hour open university. We will open the space for anyone in the community to come and go as they please, to organize study sessions, teach-ins, concerts, forums, club meetings, dance parties, and anything else our creative minds dream up.
Photo Gallery | Hot Pictures | Sexy Wallpapers | Cute... (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The media studies major from UC Berkeley gets wet and wild in her Campus Cuties photo shoot.
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
As part of an ongoing series of white papers on business and climate change, UC Berkeley and UCLA Schools of Law, together with the California Attorney General’s Office, is pleased to release our second white paper, on the topic of increasing renewable energy production from large public and commercial buildings, highway land, aqueducts, and other [...]
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
(Hat Tip: Above the Law.)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Free Speech Movement lives on at UC Berkeley - 45 years to the day after a barefoot, 21-year-old student named Mario Savio energized thousands from atop a police car by exhorting them to do all they could to stop the administration's restrictive policies....
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maybe not so much. Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired, and blogger at The Frontal Cortex writes, In the early 1980s, Philip Tetlock at UC Berkeley picked two hundred and eighty-four people who made their living “commenting or offering advice on political and economic trends” and began asking them to make predictions about future events. He [...]
