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John Heilbron obituary

Historian of science whose books, including a biography of Galileo, helped to debunk several myths

The Guardian - UK

UC Berkeley Reverses Instructor's Attempt to Give Extra Credit for Pro-Palestinian Political Activity

"While instructors enjoy considerable freedom and all individuals, when acting as private citizens, enjoy free speech rights, University policy does impose limits on using the classroom or one's course for purposes of political advocacy."

Reason

Berkeley professor tells law firms not to hire his ‘antisemitic’ students, amid campus free speech crisis

Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon accused members of the student body of ‘advocating hate and practicing discrimination’

The Independent UK

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Employers, Employees, Professors, Students: Remember—Some States Restrict Discrimination Based on Employees' Political Activity

Sunday, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by a law professor at UC Berkeley that argued: My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers. But if you don't want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don't hire some of…

Reason

'A Man of Two Faces' is a riveting, one-stop primer on Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer author's memoir is cocky and riveting — self-consciously constructed as if written for a standup audience and serving as a generous, one-stop primer for his fiction and scholarly work.

WEKU

UK interest rates now expected to peak at 5.5%; offshore wind power auction flops – as it happened

Government criticised as Britain’s latest subsidy auction to help support new renewable energy projects awarded no contracts for offshore wind projects

The Guardian - UK

FTSE 100 Live: London shares finish week ahead after late climb, pound below $1.25

London’s top flight is down today despite starting ahead, with GSK among the risers while yesterday’s top winner Melrose leads today’s fallers board.

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Oppenheimer: Remembering the physics that first made him great

J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

The Hindu

London restaurant 20 Berkeley recalls a country manor in Mayfair

20 Berkeley celebrates British produce in a setting inspired by a private home

Wallpaper

Robert Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Robert Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Robert Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Campus diversity will be a struggle without race-based admissions, history shows

States that have tried to enroll more Black and Hispanic students in state universities without using race-based admissions policies have seen the numbers of those students slip — especially at elite institutions.

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WEKU

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other people of color. Here's how

Myths about affirmative action being discriminatory against Asian Americans helped spread a narrative that college admissions meant to increase diversity were actually racist.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling leaves colleges looking for new ways to promote diversity

The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Supreme Court ends race-conscious college admissions. How will it change California education?

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday said universities and colleges could no longer use a form of race-conscious admissions, rejecting a decades-old precedent in affirmative action policy.

Evening Standard

London house market faces ‘slowdown’ as Bank of England risks overdoing rate rises says Berkeley boss

Rob Perrins, one of the longest-serving CEOs on the FTSE 100, does not expect house prices to fall

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The Guardian - UK

Housing market will be ‘choppy’ until interest rates settle, says Berkeley boss

Housebuilder reports jump in annual pretax profit but says current trading suggests 20% fall in sales this year

The Independent UK

As Supreme Court considers affirmative action, colleges see few other ways to diversity goals

After bans on affirmative action in states from California to Florida, colleges have tried a range of strategies to achieve a diverse student body

Los Angeles Times

UC Berkeley spreads the gospel of data science with new college, free curriculum

They comb through troves of legal records and video evidence to challenge wrongful convictions. They organize medical data to help personalize health treatments for better care. They scrutinize school test scores to investigate inequities. Finding safe drinking water is easier thanks to an analysis tool they created.

The Independent UK

‘Unacceptable’: Berkeley professor faces calls to resign after admitting false claims of Native American roots

Professor said she was raised being told she had Native American heritage

The Guardian - US

‘A culture, a people, an ethos’: one of the US’s oldest Asian American bookstores closes

As Eastwind Books of Berkeley shutters in California, local residents mourn the loss of a community

Los Angeles Times

Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream

Four falcon eggs atop a bell tower at UC Berkeley are about to get a crack at fame as they join a storied lineage at the university.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: How DeSantis' attack on education draws from Ronald Reagan's war on UC Berkeley

The candidate strides to the podium and launches into his attack on his state's educational system. Students are being "indoctrinated" with leftist propaganda by radical professors, he declares.

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