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California’s Billionaire Tax Should Be Just the Starting Point

Economist Gabriel Zucman argues that a permanent 2% tax on the ultra rich could generate billions while addressing the state’s growing concentration of wealth.

Capital & Main

3 Science-Backed Ways to Respond to Criticism Without Getting Defensive Every Time

Your Brain Treats Criticism Like a PredatorYour heart rate spikes within 200 milliseconds of hearing critical feedback directed at you. Psychologist Ozlem Ayduk at UC Berkeley, whose research on self-distancing appeared in Psychological Science, has documented how quickly the brain's threat-detection system hijacks the processing of social information. The amygdala…

Times Life

'Legalised Property Theft': Squatters Seize Murdered Uni Professor's Villa As Orphans Fight Back

The Jeziorski family faces a legal battle over their Berkeley villa, occupied by alleged squatters, highlighting California's controversial property laws and their impact on grieving families.

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Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours a Week Wrecks Your Decision-Making and Judgment More Than You Realise

Your Brain Lies to You About How Impaired You AreThe most dangerous thing about sleeping less than 7 hours is not the tiredness. It is the confidence. A landmark study by Hans Van Dongen at the University of Pennsylvania tracked participants restricted to 6 hours of sleep per night for…

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Neuroscience Reveals the Best Time of Day for Learning, and Your Brain's Circadian Clock Decides

The Morning Cortisol Window Is RealIn the first one to three hours after waking, cortisol levels in the brain are at their daily peak. This is not the stress cortisol people worry about, at this concentration and timing, it acts as a neurological primer. The hippocampus, the brain's primary memory-encoding…

Times Life

California College campuses are abandoning ‘primitive’ Tinder for a new matchmaking tool – to combat the loneliness ‘epidemic’

“For the past 20 years, we’ve connected in primitive ways.”

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Man in rare book heist sentenced after stealing $216,000 worth of manuscripts from UCLA library

He typically traveled to China within days of the thefts, according to federal prosecutors

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Scientists Found Exactly How Deep Sleep Triggers the Hormone That Repairs Your Body

UC Berkeley mapped the brain circuit linking deep sleep to growth hormone. Now we know why poor sleep slows recovery — and what it means for shift workers, aging adults, and insomnia.

Medical Daily

Two Friends Lose Their Lives After Being Swept Out To Sea While Taking A Nap On California Beach

“I’m still in shock,” said the father of one of the two women.

Bored Panda

Two California college students fell asleep on a Santa Cruz beach. Then waves swept them out to sea

They had been friends since high school.

We Got This Covered

‘Dirty deal’: Trump bailed himself out of IRS trouble and got a $1.8B ‘slush fund’ for allies. Legal experts sound the alarm

IN FOCUS: Anyone cutting checks to Trump’s allies or throwing out tax investigations should start lawyering up, experts tell Alex Woodward

The Independent UK

The Indigenous exhibit that Trump failed to stop

A mixed-reality exhibit celebrating Ohlone culture has launched at University of California Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science

The Independent UK

Two people found dead on UC Berkeley campus in separate incidents, officials say

Officials do not believe the cases are connected and say there is no indication of foul play in either death

The Independent UK

A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African ‘super app’

Aubrey Niederhoffer dropped out of UC Berkeley and moved to Africa to launch a food delivery service.

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Capital & Main

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs

UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

The Times of India

Perplexity reacts to Indian-origin CEO Aravind Srinivas' AI gaffe: Layoffs are fine as people hate their jobs

Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, was caught in a major controversy after he defended AI-triggered layoffs and said people do not love their jobs anyway. In a podcast, Srinivas who studied at IIT-Madras and then did his PhD at UC Berkeley, said job losses will open many…

Fortune

Wealth taxes on billionaires and $30 minimum wages are part of the same plan, advocate says. 'They should pay their fair share'

A new UC Berkeley poll shows most voters across party lines support taxing billionaires, just as a $30 minimum wage movement gains steam across the country.

LiveScience

Scientists witness birth of one of the universe's strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity 'magic trick'

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

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Astronomers witness colossal supernova explosion create one of the most magnetic stars in the universe for the first time

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

The Times of India

Who was Saketh Sreenivasaiah? Indian-origin UC Berkeley student found dead in US

22-year-old Saketh Sreenivasaiah, an Indian postgraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley was found dead on Sunday. Sreenivasaiah, who hailed from Karnataka had been reported missing earlier this week before local authorities confirmed the recovery of his body.

The Times of India

22-year-old Indian origin student Saketh Sreenivasaiah found dead in US, was missing for 6 days

A 22-year-old Indian student, Saketh Sreenivasaiah, pursuing a Master's at UC Berkeley, has been found deceased. Reported missing on February 12th, his body was recovered by local police, confirmed by the Consulate General of India, San Francisco. Consular officers are providing full support to his family, including arrangements for repatriation.

The Times of India

Graduated from IIT Madras in 2025: 22-yr-old Indian-origin student reported missing in US

Berkeley police are urgently seeking help to find Saketh Sreenivasaiah, a 22-year-old Indian Master's student from UC Berkeley, last seen Tuesday. Authorities consider him an at-risk missing person. Sreenivasaiah, who studied at IIT Madras, is described as 6'1" with short black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information is urged…

The Guardian - US

‘It still feels incredibly relevant’: the groundbreaking art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Korean-American artist’s work has continued to resonate in many years since her tragic murder in 1982 at the age of 31

Fortune

In the workforce, AI is having the opposite effect it was supposed to, UC Berkeley researchers warn

Nonstop productivity may come at the cost of rest and work quality, the study found.

Reason

Free Speech at the Higher End of the Org Chart: Thoughts on the Arkansas Dean Controversy

From the N.Y. Times (Stephanie Saul) last week: Less than a week after naming a new dean, the University of… The post Free Speech at the Higher End of the Org Chart: Thoughts on the Arkansas Dean Controversy appeared first on Reason.com.

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