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Officers at dorms, outdoor exercise ban: UC Berkeley extends dorm lockdown with stricter mandates FacebookTwitterEmail A lone pedestrian walks by Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus on July 22, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images New measures are being implemented in a dorm lockdown as UC Berkeley continues to grapple with a spike of COVID-19 cases on campus. First reported by the Daily Californian, the self-sequester mandate for UC Berkeley students living in the dormitories, originally intended to end Monday, has been extended for another week, with stricter security m...

Buyenlarge/Getty Images The Massachusetts Institute of Technology had its first African-American graduate, Robert R. Taylor, in 1892. It was only 25 years later, in 1917, that the university gave its first civil engineering diploma to an African-American. For quite a while throughout history, engineering was almost entirely the domain of white men. Although Caucasian males still dominate the profession in the U.S. (only 5 percent of engineers are African-American, only 13.4 percent are women of any race, according to one 2011 report), it's important to recognize the significant legacies t...

I’m fortunate enough to have a mathematical concept named after me. And not just Wadge degrees. There’s also the Wadge hierarchy, Wadge reducibility, and the Wadge game. In fact I’ve seen people say they’re interested in “Wadge theory”. A whole theory! I’ve posted about this before but that was mainly technical and for most readers not all that accessible. It left out the human element, the passion, the drama, the thrill of victory etc. So here’s the real story. I arrived in Berkeley (California) fresh from getting a math degree at UBC in Vancouver. I arrived a long time ago, ...

How The Past Year Got Me Thinking Of Post Apocalyptic Games In A New Light Share Screenshot: Naughty Dog To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Almost every day, I go for a walk with my kid. She’s just over two. There’s a strange serenity in the isolation of entire city blocks when there’s so few people out and about. In the first few months of the pandemic, it felt like we were ...