Meredith Corda: The worker and the queen
Theo Wyss-Flamm/Senior Staff
Assuming the role of the worker bee seems to come naturally to Corda — personifying the queen bee has always required more effort.
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‘Mom, I can’t focus’
Cal in Color
I was somewhat aware of my erratic pursuits of dopamine and novel stimuli, but the problem was that there wasn’t a language in my culture to identify and to describe these issues, and certainly not in a healthy, constructive way.
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Photo Essay: NYC’s Inferno — Sin in the 21st Century
They say there are two sides to every story; I say there are two sides to every city. The New York I encountered this past January was a far cry from the New York I knew in May 2016, but there’s some beauty in that.
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UC Berkeley researchers co-author study on thought streams
UC Berkeley researchers in neuroscience and philosophy published a study on identifying brain markers of internal thought patterns Monday.
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UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program can be source of frustration for students with disabilities
UC Berkeley students with disabilities have struggled to obtain and utilize the accommodations they need from the Disabled Students’ Program.
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Campus professor Stephen Hinshaw named recipient of two prestigious awards
UC Berkeley psychology professor Stephen Hinshaw was named the recipient of two separate distinguished awards this academic year for his research.
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Myths of Adderall: debunking a college ‘study drug’
Over the past two decades, the presence of prescription medications, such as Adderall, have increased on college campuses across the United States.
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Queerly beloved: You are good, right and true
Every morning, I recite to myself like a prayer, “You are strong, you are worthy, you are wonderful and you deserve to exist. You have overcome so much — you cannot let them win.”
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Diary of a distracted girl
The word “focus” has haunted me for my whole life. Just as I write this article, I have had to refocus my thoughts at least 10 times. Every distraction poses a new challenge.
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Stop asking me to sell you drugs
The Sidebar
It might not seem so bad for people with normal brains, but for me, this is a time-consuming, expensive and stressful process.
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