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Artificial intelligence is the hot new kid on the block — everybody wants a piece of it. Nearly every industry has fallen prey to this trendy buzzword. At this point, every company seems to be employing “AI-driven” or “AI-backed” analytics and algorithms, to the point that the term seems almost
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I’m a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley, and in May 2017, I was burned in a chemical spill in my thesis lab. I received minimal support from UC Berkeley while seeking treatment for and recovering from my injuries, and in the aftermath of the accident, I was shocked to
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I realized that the vegan diet was my vain effort to enact control over myself and my eating habits. Ironically, the more I clung to this sense of control, the more my life began to spiral.
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During this year’s move-out season, I have hope that we can collectively mobilize behind the Cooperative Reuse program to redistribute thousands of furniture items and leave Berkeley a more sustainable place.
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The pandemic has introduced a degree of uncertainty into almost everybody’s life, but UC lecturers have been living under uncertainty for far too long.
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The road since the start of this year has been long, but as a Chinese American student here, I think I’ve finally come to love my honey and silk.
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I’m still afraid of the emotional uncertainty that the flow of time brings, but I’d much rather keep moving than be fossilized in the past.
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The label “feminist,” in my experience, comes with certain expectations. It’s tiring to constantly think to yourself, “Am I feminist enough?”
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When a woman wants to have casual sex, do we need a term for it? Are phrases like “hoe phase” or “hot girl summer” attempts to justify our sex lives?
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Given California’s sizable unhoused population and community-based reports of undercounting, it stands to reason that California might have kept a seat in Congress if the 2020 census accurately counted the unhoused population.
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