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Berkeley Voices — 139 episodes
When better sleep becomes 'crisis work'
What do worms and wages have in common? More than you think
The U.S. housing crisis looms large. Could a Thai model help solve it?
How CRISPR 'supercells' cured her sickle cell disease
Wikipedia as resistance
How a Pomo elder's recordings are helping this student reclaim his culture
New season: Two sides of a story
How new color 'olo' stretches the limits of human perception
AI helped this paralyzed woman speak again after 18 years
Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?
An evolution of American friendship, from Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets
How fear is being weaponized against you (and how to respond)
Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.
As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults
Psychopathy goes undetected in some people. Why?
123: One brain, two languages
122: A language divided
121: A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish
120: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects
119: Art student's photo series explores masculine vulnerability
118: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley
117: Bonobos and chimps show 'a rich recognition' for long-lost friends and family
Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy
116: How WWII incarceration fueled generations of Japanese American activists
115: They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.
114: Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley
113: Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution
112: How the Holocaust ends
111: Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has
110: Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won't change for anyone
109: Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep loss
108: 'Be the Change': Purvi Shah on the moments of beauty as a civil rights lawyer
107: 'Be the Change': Nazune Menka on creating the course, Decolonizing UC Berkeley
106: 'Be the Change': Khiara M. Bridges on claiming her voice as a prominent Black woman
105: 'Be the Change': A podcast that aims 'to remove the mystery of making change'
104: Ty-Ron Douglas: Bridging the academic and athletic worlds
103: Law student Hoda Katebi: Iran's protests are about 'total liberation'
102: Exploring the sound of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz
101: 'Interior Chinatown' is about roles and how we play them
100: How Roe v. Wade radically changed American culture
99: Indi Garcia lives and breathes the 'abolitionist philosophy'
98: How one student finds hope in her 'fellow earthlings'
97: Biologist confronts deep roots of climate despair
96: Should we bring back woolly mammoths?
95: 'The past will be present when Roe falls’
94: How the seven-day week made us who we are
93: How the Great Migration transformed American music
92: California needs a new water supply. Could wetlands be an answer?
91: From a $16 keyboard to a symphony
90: Giving up Twitter with Michael Pollan
89: Cups for conversations — about war
88: Recycling isn't what we thought it was. So, what now?
87: How Nobel winner David Card transformed economics
86: Disabled and empowered: How Mariana Soto Sanchez found self-advocacy at Berkeley
85: Ballet folklórico: Celebrating Mexican culture through dance
84: Maryam Karimi: This generation in Afghanistan will not give up
83: How wildfire can create healthier forests
82: When the personal, political and historical collide — in our bodies
81: Nature's unsung superheroes? Mushrooms! (revisiting)
80: Chancellor Carol Christ: 'I always felt like a pioneer' (revisiting)
79: The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it possible (revisiting)
78: En pointe for her Ukrainian culture (revisiting)
77: How do we talk about the Asian experience with Asians at the center?
76: How the Asian American movement began at Berkeley, sparked creativity and unity
75: Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda on growing up in California after World War II
74: Berkeley MFA student Fred DeWitt: George Floyd never wanted to be in my art
73: The uncertain outcome of the Chauvin trial
72: Power corrupts even the best of us. But there’s an antidote.
71: How we create ‘imagined communities’ with celebrity gossip
After Thoughts: ‘I’m American, regardless of how my ancestors got here’
70: What crocodile mummies can tell us about everyday life in ancient Egypt
After Thoughts: Dacher Keltner on the science of awe and psychedelics
69: Language is more than how we speak — it's home
68: Building community one person at a time
67: How state courts use disability to remove Native children from their homes
66: How the U.S. government created an ‘insane asylum’ to imprison Native Americans
65: Savala Trepczynski on Breonna Taylor and the elusive nature of racial justice
64: The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it possible
63: Oral history project reveals '20 shades of Jerry Brown'
62: After Parkland shooting, student fights for mental health resources in schools
61: What does it mean to be a Native artist today?
60: Fighting injustice with poetry
59: Teeter totters as activism: How the border wall became a playground
57: Staffer's search for birth mom reveals dark history of Guatemalan adoption
56: The ministry of being out
55: Why are there so many Filipino nurses in the U.S.?
54: How a botched train robbery led to the birth of modern American criminology
53: Chancellor Carol Christ and Professor Emerita Carol Clover on women in the academy, then and now
52: 'Mouthpiece' says what many women never say
51: For Malika Imhotep, devotion to black feminist study is a life practice
50: In campus records 49 years and still loving it
49: Black history cemetery tour: Abraham Holland and the Sweet Vengeance Mine
48: Cal alumni leader gives hope to students who need it most
47: For international relations staffer, ballet kept her family’s Ukrainian culture alive
46: Berkeley Haas Chief of Staff Marco Lindsey lives like his 80-year-old self is watching
45: Native American 'Antigone' explores universal values of honoring the dead
44: Academic counselor Quamé on standing out, dreaming big—and letting go
43: 'White voice' and hearing whiteness as difference, not the standard
42: The history of why some say women sound shrill, immature
41: At Berkeley, nobody stuffs a bird like Carla Cicero
40: From the archive: On Berkeley time? He keeps Campanile's clocks ticking
39: AileyCamp — so much more than a dance camp
38: Margaret Atwood: 'Things can change a lot faster than you think'
37: Bringing people together, one puppet at a time
36: For disability advocate, helping students navigate campus is personal
35: Peregrine falcons, zipping through campus at top speeds, are here to stay
34: A biology prof on growing up gay in rural Minnesota
33: How a tender message helped win the fight for same-sex marriage
32: Billy Curtis, an S.F. Pride grand marshal, on building inclusivity
31: With music as his guide, Haas graduating senior envisions a better Nigeria
30: On Worthy Wage Day, early childhood educators fight for support
29: From pollution cleanup to building houses, what can't mushrooms do?
28: Creating the world you want, by seeing a world that's possible
27: For Ula Taylor, it's all about harnessing the leader within
26: Staff director sees great strength in diversity
25: For comics fan staffer, Black Panther was 'life changing'
24: For Ph.D. student Kenly Brown, collecting data is about people
23: For alumni leader, giving hope is her life's mission
22: Here’s what an earthquake sounds like
21: Quit your giggling: the straight dope on cannabis
20: For aspiring triple major, piano is a way of life
19: Growing up without free speech is like 'prison for your mind'
18: Student musicians on learning from the best
17: How generosity in disaster flows in both directions
16: Students & alumni reflect on free speech, Ben Shapiro
15: Roaya and Nissma on their surprise connection
14: Students discuss social impact of Hamilton (with a cappella performance)
12: One young Republican's pursuit of the 'Freedom to Marry'
11: For Sayah Bogor, an arduous road from refugee to health researcher
10: ‘Brooms up!’ Oski, meet Harry Potter
09: From a border wall to a cultural bridge
08: The carefully crafted sound of Zellerbach Hall
07: How Moscow’s Tsar Bell found its voice — at Berkeley
06: Is CDC’s alcohol warning paternalistic? Why some women think so
05: Like GPS, but for your sex drive
04: Berkeley Law professor Melissa Murray on the darker side of marriage
03: The ‘Big Idea’ that’s leading the push to make UC carbon-neutral
02: On Berkeley time? He keeps Campanile's clocks ticking
01: Trudy's bloom raises a stink