Editors’ note: Outside impact issue
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The outside — real and imaginary — is where we find adventures of all kinds and where, ultimately, we will learn and grow.
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Bears earn 4 medals in 1st half of swimming events
After sending more than a dozen athletes to swim in the Tokyo Olympics, Cal swimming won four medals in the first four days of the swimming competition.
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‘Universally therapeutic’: Outdoors foster positive mental health outcomes
Alienor Baskevitch is enthralled by the outdoors — the sun, the air and being surrounded by flora and fauna brings her unfiltered, anxiety-free joy.
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‘A beautiful place’: City, campus communities reflect on past year at UC Botanical Garden
UC Berkeley Professor of the Graduate School in plant and microbial biology John Taylor frequented the UC Botanical Garden with his wife during the COVID-19 pandemic. For Taylor, the garden was one of the few places they could visit that was open at the time.
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Berkeley biking bliss
I forgot why I bought a $79 bike at Walmart in spring 2018. Nobody knows what prompted that decision, but something in my heart just said, “Let’s give it a try.”
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5 films that make exceptional use of natural landscapes
A remarkable feature of cinema is its ability to transport viewers to remote destinations, using lighting, framing and composition to open portals into worlds separated from us by time and space
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Why running is more than a vestige of caveman times
If you suffer from nihilistic wondering about what you were made to do, a simple answer is that you were made for endurance running.
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Local governments must transition away from animal agriculture
Governments must stop propping up animal agriculture via taxpayer subsidies and instead put funding toward a more sustainable food system — one where we don’t have to hurt animals.
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Tex-it: Oklahoma, Texas to leave Big 12 conference
Texas and Oklahoma are looking to leave the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference, a move that would change the dynamics of college athletics forever.
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Road tripping through 46 states
During my family’s time in North America, we traveled around 46 states in the United States and five Canadian provinces, driving in our SUV and sleeping at local campsites.
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