PopTech: Tax Incentives
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve shares some data that suggest some interesting ways to incentivize people to pay their taxes. “If we can make the tax form slightly less frustrating and perhaps […]
PopTech: Promoting Creativity
Adam Day, Strategic Workplace Design at Nike and Christine Congdon, Director and Editor of the 360 Magazine at Steelcase, discuss the tensions of creative work and implications for design of […]
UC Berkeley: Marriage Advice
Honeymoon long over? Hang in there. A new UC Berkeley study shows those prickly disagreements that can mark the early and middle years of marriage mellow with age as conflicts […]
Memorial Stadium Earthquake Retrofit
Highlights of the unique design and construction of UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium retrofit project, completed in 2012.
Gecko’s Latest Superpower
Geckos are renowned for their acrobatic feats on land and in the air, but a new discovery that they can also run on water puts them in the superhero category, […]
Earthquake Early Warning System
“This is a test of the ShakeAlert system. ShakeAlert is the United States Geological Survey Earthquake Early Warning System, which has been provided to BART in partnership with UC Berkeley.”
Berkeley’s Solar Car
CalSol, the UC Berkeley solar vehicle team, has been around since 1990. Over the years the team has created eight generations of solar vehicles, each one getting closer to being […]
Psychology Class Uses Improv
Psych 24 is a one-unit, pass/no pass UC Berkeley freshman seminar that uses madcap improvisational theater to teach about the science of the human mind.
Social Media Solves Crimes
Advancements in technology and the digital world can be used for good and bad. The power lies in the people who use those tools. Activism 2.0, our ongoing video series, […]
Detects Antibiotics Quickly
When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to fight them.
