Dec 5th, 2008 · From gravity to the greenhouse effect, Richard Muller, a physicist at University of California at Berkeley, details the basic physics President-elect Barack Obama should know. Muller is author of Physics for Future Presidents and teaches a class at Berkeley by the same name.
Nov 24th, 2008 · Mollie Katzen, author of The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without, returns. This time she demonstrates from her kitchen in Berkeley, Calif., how to bring searing drama to Thanksgiving green beans this year.
Nov 10th, 2008 · Researchers in Berkeley, Calif., are working on new technologies to convert plant cellulose into a fuel that could directly replace diesel and gasoline. But even if they figure out the recipe, there are still obstacles to competing with fossil fuels.
Sep 24th, 2008 · This week, From the Top is in Berkeley, California, where a 12-year-old pianist joyfully wraps her brain and fingers around a Bach fugue, a hockey-playing bassoonist performs Weber and a teen quartet offers up a new work by a local 17-year-old.
Aug 16th, 2008 · Guy Bartal, from the light refraction lab at Berkeley, talks about the research his lab is doing on "invisible cloaks." Bartal overseas research in this lab, and is a co-author of two papers that came out this week on light bending.
Jul 20th, 2008 · Host Liane Hansen talks to Sylvia Allegretto, an economist with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. They discuss what the coming minimum wage increase means for workers and employers at a time when the economy is struggling.
Jul 12th, 2008 · Over the past three weeks, more than 20,000 firefighters have battled nearly 1,800 fires in California and there's no immediate relief in sight. Timothy Duane, professor of environmental policy and land use at the University of California at Berkeley, talks with Linda Wertheimer about the economics of firefighting and how it has changed.
Jun 30th, 2008 · In the early 1960s, California was hailed as a model for America's future. But youth unrest at Berkeley and rioting in Watts offered a very different reality. By the end of the 60s, the dream had been badly shaken.