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Women’s rights are central to the idea of how to build a new society for everybody, says Hoda Katebi, a third-year Berkeley Law student.

In this podcast episode, Robert Full explains the huge growth in robots designed based on amazing creatures in nature.

“By gossiping about celebrities and by talking about what they’ve done that isn’t so great, it allows us to establish our values as a community and also for me, as an individual, to advertise my values to the people I’m speaking with,” says professor Julia Fawcett, who teaches a course called the History of Celebrity in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. Celebrities, one theory goes, act to unite imagined communities in a modern nation. When people used to know everyone in their villages, now we use celebrities to come together in a new kind of group. “I’m...

Berkeley News  podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley economics professor Martha Olney says that in the 1920s, households bought durable goods — cars, appliances, furniture, jewelry — which led to a quickly booming economy. But today, because more than 60% of what the U.S. produces are services, it will take longer to bounce back from the recession caused by the pandemic. (Flickr photo) In this episode of Berkeley Talks , Martha Olney, a teaching professor of economics at UC Berkeley, discusses the economic forecast — how the pos...