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Neuroscientists Reconstructed Snippets of a Pink Floyd Song From a Person’s Thoughts

A new study discovers a brain region called the superior temporal gyrus is necessary for perceiving musical rhythm and recreating it from brain activity.

Inverse

Some states are trying to boost youth voter registration. Here's what they're doing

More states are adopting policies to increase voter registration, including for young people. Those policies include automatic voter registration and pre-registration before age 18.

WEKU

New California Board Has Power to Order Pay Raises and Protections for Workers

Following fast-food industry blocking of reforms, lawmakers bring back a wage commission. Such bodies have expanded rights for low-wage workers in other states.

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The 'Un-Becoming': A former gang member finds his resurrection tale at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. — Jessi Fernandez joined a street gang at 13. By his 20s, he had been shot at more times than he could count. He got busted for methamphetamine possession and spent time in Los Angeles County jail for carrying a loaded gun. Yet the persistent danger didn't wash…

Los Angeles Times

Researchers Chart Alarming Decline in ChatGPT Response Quality

There have been murmurings about ChatGPT quality sliding in recent months. New research demonstrates some severe quantifiable degradation.

Tom’s Hardware

These 7 California metro areas have the lowest young adult homeownership rates in the country

So you’re in your late 20’s or early 30’s, and you’re thinking about buying your first home somewhere in California. You scroll through housing websites and realize that you can’t afford a single listing.

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Study finds how deep-sleep brain waves predict blood sugar control

Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person's risk of diabetes. Read further on Dynamite News:

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A payment overhaul is coming to California child care, along with a 20% raise for workers

More than 40,000 California child-care providers who watch the children of low-income workers have secured a 20% average pay increase under a tentative union agreement with the state — a "watershed moment" for an industry dominated by immigrant women of color, labor officials and experts said.

Los Angeles Times

IBM Unlocks Quantum Utility With its 127-Qubit "Eagle" Quantum Processing Unit

IBM has announced that it has unlocked practical utility out of today's NISQ-era quantum computers - showing how a pairing of quantum and standard computing is required for reliable, consistent, truthful - and thus useful - results.

Tom’s Hardware

UC Berkeley graduate student gunned down on research trip to Mexico

Gabriel Trujillo, a 31-year-old University of California, Berkeley graduate student, was shot and killed in Mexico while conducting field research, according to friends and family.

Los Angeles Times

‘A cautionary tale’: colleges in states with affirmative action bans report racial disparities

Data from Universities of California and Michigan show how the bans have adversely affected Black and Indigenous student enrollment

The Guardian - US

Here's what happened when affirmative action ended at California public colleges

Twenty-five years of experimentation under race-neutral admissions policies — and a half-billion dollars later — the University of California system says they still can't meet their diversity goals.

WEKU

These high school grads are the COVID Class of 2023 and have the stories to prove it

It had only been a week since graduation and these teenagers were giddy. Summer sprawled out in front of them. College is just a few months away — a future some still can't believe will be theirs.

Los Angeles Times

A lot of what you’ve heard about affirmative action is wrong

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions is certain to ripple across higher education for years. Debate in the lead-up to the court’s decision has ignited passions about accessibility, fairness and merit in the complex admissions process — and stirred up some misconceptions about affirmative…

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The most lucrative majors? Some community college grads can outearn elite university peers

LOS ANGELES — Elijah Calderon, after a yearlong training program at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, is poised to earn about $105,000 annually as a power lineman. Once he becomes a journeyman in three to four years, he stands to make about $165,000 — and potentially much more with overtime.

The Guardian - US

What was affirmative action designed to do – and what has it achieved?

The US supreme court has banned the use of affirmative-action policies that have been in place for decades

Fortune

George Soros’ millennial son used to worry he’d be seen as a ‘deadbeat lazy trust-fund kid.’ Now he’s in charge of a $25 billion hedge fund empire.

Once known as the host of #CampSoros, Alex Soros filled Instagram with pictures of his celebrity-studded parties in the Hamptons. Then he went to Berkeley.

USAFacts

How USAFacts created the Data Skills for Congress program

Data is central to the legislative process. However, Congress often faces challenges in locating and working with it. Enter USAFacts and UC Berkeley.

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Evening Standard

Elon Musk’s Twitter algorithm changes are ‘amplifying anger and animosity’, say researchers

Twitter users are being shown more emotional tweets, especially those expressing anger and animosity towards people with opposing views

WEKU

Advocates: Reparations are the answer for sea level threat in West Oakland, Calif.

Reparations are one way to confront the rising sea levels in West Oakland, Calif.

Los Angeles Times

A majority of Californians say Feinstein is no longer fit for office, a new poll finds

WASHINGTON — A substantial majority of Californians feel that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is no longer fit for the job because of her recent declining health, and more voters believe she should resign than support her staying in office, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored…

Tribune News Service

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Supreme Court dismisses challenges to the Section 230 legal shield that protects websites

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.

WEKU

A chapter ends for this historic Asian American bookstore, but its story continues

For decades, Eastwind Books was an anchor for the Bay Area's Asian American community. Now, the husband and wife duo behind it have decided to close the shop.

The Independent UK

Berkeley professor apologizes for false Indigenous identity

An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years has apologized for falsely identifying as Indigenous, saying she is “a white person” who lived an identity based on family lore

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