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You have a right to remain fat, says San Francisco's 'weight czar' as her hefty pay packet is revealed
3 days, 21 hours ago

You have a right to remain fat, says San Francisco's 'weight czar' as her hefty pay packet is revealed

Daily Mail  

The San Francisco Department of Health's new 'weight czar' has gone viral for her proclamation that 'no one has to be healthy.' This episode was filmed about two years before she was hired as a temporary consultant a the San Francisco Department of Health Tovar said the 'disabled community' isn't generally considered to be 'healthy.' Tovar is a self-described 'anti-weight-based …

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QS Sustainability Rankings: IIT Delhi tops India, IITs Kharagpur and Bombay follow
1 week, 6 days ago

QS Sustainability Rankings: IIT Delhi tops India, IITs Kharagpur and Bombay follow

India Today  

The QS World University Rankings Sustainability 2025 have been released, and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has emerged as the top-ranked Indian institution. QS SUSTAINABILITY RANKINGS 2025: TOP 10 INDIAN INSTITUTIONS Out of 78 Indian universities in the QS Sustainability Rankings 2025, nine of the top ten institutions improved their global standings. Here’s a quick look at the top …

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Elevated radiation detected at former Bay Area landfill turned art park
3 weeks ago

Elevated radiation detected at former Bay Area landfill turned art park

LA Times  

State-ordered environmental testing has uncovered elevated levels of cancer-causing radiation at a popular spot for hikers and dog walkers in the Bay Area, according to a new report. Over the summer, the city of Albany hired hazardous waste specialists with Cabrera Services Inc. to survey for the presence of radioactive waste at the Albany Bulb, a former municipal landfill for …

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Letters to the Editor: ‘Demoralizing’ — on Boichik Bagels’ successful effort to kill a natural gas tax
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Letters to the Editor: ‘Demoralizing’ — on Boichik Bagels’ successful effort to kill a natural gas tax

LA Times  

Bagels are made at the Boichik Bagels factory in Berkeley on Nov. 14. To the editor: Sammy Roth’s column about Boichik Bagels’ efforts to spike Berkeley’s eco-friendly tax measure felt particularly demoralizing. This beloved bread maker revealed that much of the company’s gas consumption could’ve been easily reduced by switching to electric kettles and water heaters without affecting quality. If …

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US scientists develop 'syllabus,' for robots, allowing them to transfer skills without human intervention
3 weeks, 5 days ago

US scientists develop 'syllabus,' for robots, allowing them to transfer skills without human intervention

Firstpost  

Scientists at UC Berkeley have unveiled a game-changing tool called RoVi-Aug. This clever framework allows engineers to simplify how robots learn by allowing them to transfer skills between models without needing human guidance. t’s a step closer to making robots more independent Robots are becoming more common in real-world settings, but there’s still a major hurdle — how to get …

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Column: Why California’s favorite bagel shop is defending fossil fuels
1 month ago

Column: Why California’s favorite bagel shop is defending fossil fuels

LA Times  

Boichik Bagels employee Iris Gonzalez holds a pumpernickel bagel with lox and a tomato slice at the Boichik factory in Berkeley on Nov. 14. A New York Times food critic called her bagels “some of the finest New York-style bagels I’ve ever tasted.” So when Winston said the gas tax would hurt her plans to expand, people listened. Boichik Bagels …

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California retains No. 1 ranking for international student enrollment as concerns grow over Trump
1 month ago

California retains No. 1 ranking for international student enrollment as concerns grow over Trump

LA Times  

The number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities reached an all-time high last school year, with India surpassing China as the top sender and California maintaining its spot as the top destination, according to a new report. The data from the Institute of International Education said that more than 1.1 million foreign students — over half of …

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7 ways a Trump administration could affect your finances
1 month, 1 week ago

7 ways a Trump administration could affect your finances

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump promised Americans he’d bring down consumer prices, make health care more affordable and protect Social Security. “He will deliver.” Taxes The Trump administration is expected to focus on extending tax cuts introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that are set to expire in 2025. Extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts would lower taxes by …

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San Francisco man arrested in connection with shooting incidents at UC Berkeley
1 month, 2 weeks ago

San Francisco man arrested in connection with shooting incidents at UC Berkeley

LA Times  

Berkeley Police have arrested a 45-year-old San Francisco man in connection with a recent series of shooting incidents on the campus of UC Berkeley, officials said. The man was found with an arsenal of weaponry, including assault rifles, handguns and ammunition, according to a Berkeley Police Department media release. Shortly after midnight on Oct. 26, police officers “responded to a …

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At famously loud Berkeley, pro-Palestinian protests have grown quieter
1 month, 2 weeks ago

At famously loud Berkeley, pro-Palestinian protests have grown quieter

Politico  

“It definitely is a different political moment,” said Luca Dhagat, co-chair of the Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at UC Berkeley, a group that has been involved in pro-Palestinian organizing at the university. Dhagat drew a comparison to racial justice protests after the summer of 2020: “When we don’t see much in terms of actual change or actual improvement, …

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Hope and anxiety grip voters in Kamala Harris’ Bay Area haunts
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Hope and anxiety grip voters in Kamala Harris’ Bay Area haunts

LA Times  

Susie Newton reacts at an election watch party at Manny’s in San Francisco on election night. Outside a modest yellow bungalow in West Berkeley, some dealt with their election day anxiety by making a pilgrimage to Kamala Harris’ childhood home to snap selfies, hoping they would turn into treasured memories of the day the nation elected its first female president. …

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Teens 16 and 17 get to vote in two Alameda County school board races
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Teens 16 and 17 get to vote in two Alameda County school board races

LA Times  

High school students gather outside the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Oct. 17 to drop off ballots for local school board races in Alameda County. In a first for California, teens in two Alameda County school districts, Berkeley and Oakland, were granted suffrage in school board races for the first time this November. “Let’s make Oakland a truly …

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Californians uncertain about Proposition 32, which would boost minimum wage to $18, poll finds
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Californians uncertain about Proposition 32, which would boost minimum wage to $18, poll finds

LA Times  

Just under half of California voters support Proposition 32, the measure to increase California’s minimum wage to $18 an hour, a warning sign about its fate in next week’s election, according to new polling results released Friday. Forty-seven percent of likely voters and those who have already cast ballots backed the measure, according to a survey from the UC Berkeley …

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Berkeley startup wins government award to develop radiation and lead poisoning treatment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Berkeley startup wins government award to develop radiation and lead poisoning treatment

LA Times  

Whether its lead from old buildings, arsenic from contaminated food or strontium fallout from a nuclear explosion, heavy metals that enter the body pose a serious health threat. “HOPO chelators are extremely promising in that regard,” said Justin Wilson, a biochemistry professor at UC Santa Barbara who studies chelators and was not involved in HOPO Therapeutics work. “So, there’s this …

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‘Minor traffic incident’ turns deadly when suspect shoots victim in parking lot
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Minor traffic incident’ turns deadly when suspect shoots victim in parking lot

The Independent  

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In Kamala Harris’ Berkeley, political activism is part of growing up
2 months ago

In Kamala Harris’ Berkeley, political activism is part of growing up

LA Times  

Wearing a T-shirt that reads “First but not the last” — a phrase Kamala Harris has used to describe herself as the country’s first female vice president — a 9-year-old named Violet stood outside her elementary school, one the Democratic nominee once attended, and worried about the future if former President Trump is elected next month. Nine-year-old girls at Berkeley’s …

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Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO₂ from the air as a tree, scientists say
2 months ago

Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO₂ from the air as a tree, scientists say

LA Times  

A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of a year. “You have to take CO2 from the air — there’s no way around it,” said Yaghi, who is also chief scientist at Berkeley’s Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet. As a result, it captures …

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Column: The latest info on California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers — higher pay, no job losses and minimal price hikes
2 months, 1 week ago

Column: The latest info on California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers — higher pay, no job losses and minimal price hikes

LA Times  

McDonald’s prices haven’t significantly risen since California raised its fast-food minimum wage to $20 an hour on April 1. Gavin Newsom on the state’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers Two new analyses of the actual wage and price impacts of the $20-per-hour minimum have appeared this month. Fast-food employment in California rose after April’s minimum wage increase, often faster …

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Californians broadly support Prop. 36 to get tough on crime, new poll finds
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Californians broadly support Prop. 36 to get tough on crime, new poll finds

LA Times  

A ballot is dropped off on Election Day at the Registrar of Voters office in Norwalk in March. A solid majority of likely California voters support Proposition 36, the November ballot measure that would impose stricter penalties for retail theft and crimes involving fentanyl, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co- Imposing harsher punishment on …

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Good salary, little to no debt: A California college guide to top-value majors
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Good salary, little to no debt: A California college guide to top-value majors

LA Times  

Edgar Roa was mostly raised by an immigrant mother without a high school degree, surviving on welfare benefits as his family frequently moved around Southern California in pursuit of affordable housing. As more people question the value of higher education, the report released Thursday provides clear data on how much graduates enrolled in 2,695 degree and certificate programs at 324 …

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Heavy lifting
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Heavy lifting

China Daily  

Reader question: Please explain “heavy lifting” in this passage : “We’ve forgotten this very important fact: you have to remember that one day you will be dead and gone,” Julie Lythcott-Haims, a former Stanford University dean and the author of How to Raise an Adult, told Quartz at Work last year. - Jason Williams Throws Shade At Michael Jordan While …

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US-China research has given Beijing’s military technology a boost, House GOP says
2 months, 4 weeks ago

US-China research has given Beijing’s military technology a boost, House GOP says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Partnerships between the U.S. and China at universities over the past decade have allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to aid Beijing in developing critical technology that could be used for military purposes, congressional Republicans asserted in a new report. “Decreased person-to-person engagement is contributing to the rapidly fraying U.S.-China relationship at the moment.” Monday’s …

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AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions
3 months ago

AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions

LA Times  

A woman walks by the Above the Fold newsstand on Thursday in Los Angeles. “It was very hard to pass this legislation in Google’s backyard,” said Julie Makinen, chair of the California News Publishers Assn., the bill’s lead sponsor. California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, said: “My goal was to get resources into the hands of publications as quickly as we could, …

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UC chancellors get big raises, putting them between $785,000 and nearly $1.2 million
3 months ago

UC chancellors get big raises, putting them between $785,000 and nearly $1.2 million

LA Times  

The UC regents approved pay raises for seven chancellors at their September meeting. New chancellors at UCLA and UC Berkeley, who were hired this year at the highest pay levels among all but one of the undergraduate campus leaders, did not receive salary adjustments. “Although UC campuses consistently rank among the best in the U.S. and the world, UC chancellors …

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