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Podcasts from Cityside
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Fascinating conversations held at the annual Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas, produced by Berkeleyside, Berkeley, California's independent, local news site.
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What could reparations for Black Californians look like?
Oaklandside contributor Corey Antonio Rose spoke to participants at a California Reparations Task Force listening session in Oakland on May 28, 2022, about why reparations matter to them, and interviewed task force chairperson Kamilah Moore about what reparations might entail, who stands to...
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Remembering the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm
The '91 "Tunnel Fire" was one of the most destructive fires in U.S. history. To mark the 30th anniversary, The Oaklandside and Berkeleyside co-produced a 30-minute podcast looking back at the blaze that forever changed how the East Bay looks at wildfires.
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Talk Berkeley to me
"Outta pocket." "Bootsy." "On mamas." The East Bay has always been a laboratory for creative slang. Berkeley High School in particular is known for having its own language of sorts — documented in the late 90s and early 2000s in the Berkeley High Slang Dictionary. As students head back to school,...
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The Pipping Party
Berkeleyside's Tracey Taylor talks about falcons and the Cal falcon webcam —which is keeping a watchful eye on Annie and Grinnell, two peregrines who made their nest in the clock tower of the Campanile on the UC Berkeley campus — with raptor mavens Allen Fish, director of the Golden Gate Raptor...
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Uncharted Episode 29: Learning to be a black man in America
What's the script for black manhood? Mychal Denzel Smith unapologetically upends assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black men so that depression and anxiety aren't considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. Denzel Smith, author of of...
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Uncharted Episode 28: Equal justice for all?
Most of us are familiar with public defenders from TV shows, but do we really understand the crucial role they play in the justice system? In fact, they represent 80% of people charged in the system and provide legal representation to defendants who cannot afford private attorneys. However, they...
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Uncharted Episode 27: Death 101
Jessica Zitter describes herself as an "accidental evangelist." As a doctor, she set out to save lives, not to focus on death. But her work has led her to a commitment to change the current paradigm of end-of-life medical decision-making. In October 2017, Zitter, an ICU and palliative care...
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Uncharted Episode 26: A neo-Nazi finds life after hate
When he was an insecure teenager, Christian Picciolini was part of a group of violent, skinhead neo-Nazis. Fast forward to today, and Picciolini spends his days helping people disengage from hate and violent extremism through his nonprofit, Life After Hate. In October 2017, Picciolini, author of...
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Uncharted Episode 25: Class Cluelessness
America is sometimes described as a class-free society — a view not shared by UC Hastings law professor Joan Williams. Williams, author of White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, argues that misconceptions about class — in particular how the "professional elite" class...
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Uncharted Episode 24: Don't underestimate Trump
Political messages gain added strength when they're delivered in a way that matches how our brains process information. Pioneering cognitive linguist George Lakoff says that America's leading progressive politicians have ignored the science, while Donald Trump and the right wing have connected…
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Uncharted Episode 23: Everything Trump Touches Dies
Rick Wilson is a Republican political strategist and media consultant with 30 years of experience. He has helped to elect Governors, U.S. Senators, statewide Cabinet officers and state legislators. He is also a vehement critic of the 45th President of the United States and is working on a film...
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Uncharted Episode 22: Political journalism in the age of Trump
The shortcomings of traditional political journalism have been visible for some time. But the unprecedented presidency of Donald Trump has graphically exposed journalism's weaknesses. In 2016, before the November election, Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at New York University, sat down with...
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Uncharted Episode 21: From Hangover to criminal justice reform
Scott Budnick is best known as the executive producer of the Hangover movies, the highest grossing, R-rated comedies in history. But unknown to many, Budnick's mission is to reform the criminal justice system. In October 2016 Budnick sat down with Lance Knobel, founder and curator of the…
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Uncharted Episode 20: What can we do about Citizens United?
With the conservative turn of the Supreme Court, overturning Citizens United looks unlikely. But Daniel Newman believes there are reforms that can be implemented even in the current political climate. In 2016, before the November election, Newman, co-founder and president of Maplight, sat down…
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Uncharted Episode 19: Black elephants in the room
What do you think about when you hear about African-American Republicans? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all Blacks must vote democratic? Or are they sell-outs, letting down their race? In 2016, before the November election, Corey Fields, Assistant Professor of Sociology at...
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Uncharted Episode 18: Assholes: A theory of Donald Trump
When Aaron James sat down to write a popular philosophy book about assholes, he didn't anticipate the candidacy — then the presidency — of Donald Trump. But then James found he had the perfect framework to explain the seemingly inexplicable. In October 2016, before the November election, James, a...
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Uncharted Episode 17: The Digital Doctor
As healthcare has gone digital, Bob Wachter, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, noticed plenty of problems. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America's leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic…
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Uncharted Episode 16: Why pursuing happiness is making us miserable
Ruth Whippman, the author of "America The Anxious: How our Pursuit of Happiness is Making us a Nation of Nervous Wrecks," talks with Lauren Schiller, host of the Inflection Point radio show and podcast, about America's happiness industry and why we're not getting our money's worth.
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Uncharted Episode 15: A perspective on the 2016 election
Jamelle Bouie is the Chief Political Correspondent of Slate. In October 2015 he sat down with Lance Knobel at the Uncharted Festival of Ideas in Berkeley to talk about the 2016 election. Rather than delve into the horse race of candidate nominations, Knobel asked Bouie to offer a framework for...
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Uncharted Episode 14: The globalization of education
Nicholas Dirks is the Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley. He spoke with Quentin Hardy, deputy technology editor of the New York Times, about how UC Berkeley is planning to cement its position as one of the top public universities in the world with the launch of a global campus.
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Uncharted Episode 13: Climbing the learning ladder
Elñora Tena Webb is president of Laney College, a community college in Oakland, California. Every day, Webb grapples with the issues of how to get young, often disenfranchised, people into colleges and universities. She spoke with bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler about how her personal…
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Uncharted Episode 12: Liberty and drugs
Described by Rolling Stone as "the real drug czar," Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, is widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform globally. He spoke with bestselling author and Berkeleyside co-founder Frances Dinkelspiel…
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Uncharted Episode 11: Making culture for the internets
Wherever he's worked, Robin Sloan, author of "Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore," has been figuring out the future of media. Sloan and media innovator Peter Leyden here explore the difference between online writing — which, he says, can sometimes feel like consuming sugar — to publishing a book,...
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Uncharted Episode 10: Superpowers, cyborgs, taxes, fanatics and reincarnation
Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, a technologist, and an entrepreneur, and the scope of her work is more than impressive. In October 2015, she sat down with Quentin Hardy, the deputy technology editor of the New York Times at the Uncharted Ideas Festival. Whether talking about…
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Uncharted Episode 9: The man without a face
Masha Gessen calls Vladimir Putin a 'playground bully' and a 'thug.' She should know: Russian herself, she is one of the world's leading experts on Putin and his regime. A journalist who writes for the New Yorker and the New York Times among others, and the author of several books, including The...
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Uncharted Episode 8: Confronting gentrification
Malo André Hutson is the Associate Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. His work focuses on neighborhood change, or, to use the more loaded term, gentrification. In October 2015, Hutson sat down with John King, the San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic,...
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Uncharted Episode 7: Are our economic problems new (robots) or old (forgetting Keynes)?
How are technology, artificial intelligence, robots and drones impacting our society and our economy? Brad DeLong says the disruptions and dislocations they prompt are nothing new. Think about Andrew Carnegie's father in the 19th century being forced to abandon his Scottish handloom and move to...
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Uncharted Episode 6: Science and Free Speech
Alice Dreger is an historian of medicine and science, a sex researcher, a mainstream writer, and an (im)patient advocate. Her most recent book is Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science. She also made headlines in 2015 when she resigned from her…
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The Three Michaels of Berkeley
In December 2012, Berkeleyside brought together three bestselling Berkeley-based writers, all named Michael — Michael Chabon, Michael Lewis and Michael Pollan — for a conversation about their writing and the city they call home. Their conversation was a riot!
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Uncharted Episode 5: Is Gwyneth Paltrow wrong about everything?
For his latest book, "Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness," health-science expert Timothy Caulfield of the University of Alberta set out to answer a simple question: why do we believe in the health and beauty treatments that...
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Uncharted Episode 4: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Drones
Chris Anderson was Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine for 12 years, but he gave all that up to devote himself to drones after an epiphany brought on by playing with a Lego Mindstorms robotic kit one Friday afternoon with his kids. As the founder of 3D Robotics, a drone manufacturer based in the…
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Uncharted Episode 3: Too much medicine is making us sicker
Shannon Brownlee is a national leader in highlighting the scope and consequences of overuse in healthcare, and she explores many of these worrying issues in her book, "Overtreated: Why too much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer." Millions of people in the U.S. are being harmed — and are…
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Uncharted Episode 2: Bring back the firing squad
Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, arguably the most outspoken judge on the federal bench, believes our criminal justice system is broken. He says we often rely on guesswork to convict people and suggests the firing squad is a more honest way of putting people to death than lethal injection. At…
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Uncharted Episode 1: What next for #BlackLivesMatter?
Shortly after Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Michael McBride, a church and community leader in the Bay Area, went to Ferguson. He has since emerged as a spokesperson on gun violence prevention, boys and men of color and police-community relationships. At the 2015...
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