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May 31 2024With more than 1,500 faculty members, including a handful of Nobel laureates, scores of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, and abundant National Academy of Sciences members, Berkeley offers far more than any student could ever hope ...
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Amidst misinformation, critical thinking needs a 21st century upgrade
Mar 26 2024In 2013, the University of California, Berkeley, debuted a course to teach undergraduates the tricks used by scientists to make sense of the world, in the hope that these tricks would prove useful in assessing ...
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‘Third Millennium Thinking’: How to use scientific tools to solve everyday problems
Mar 26 2024Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun teach a course at the University of California Berkeley on using scientific tools to approach everyday problems. They've now turned that ...
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He led Cal to Olympic gold in 1928. Now his rowing medal is back at UC Berkeley
Jan 30 2024By Jason Pohl | January 30, 2024 For decades, in a family’s home in West Marin, a set of rowing oars hung horizontally over the French doors leading to the patio. Below the oars was ...