57 min ago | Eugene Weekly
The somewhat elusive Springfield Ditch Projects gallery opened its latest exhibit May 18, and it runs through June 15.
57 min ago | Nature
Mood disorders: The dark night
The causal relationships between lack of sleep and mood disorders remain murky. But one thing is clear as day: better sleep can have psychological benefits.
4 hrs ago | CBS Local
Complaints Filed Against 4 Colleges Over Rapes, Including Swarthmore College
Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred joined students from four U.S. colleges and universities on Wednesday to announce the filing of federal complaints over how the higher-education institutions handle rape allegations.
4 hrs ago | San Francisco Magazine
Hosts a Free Release Party and Reading
For our June issue, we asked fifteen of the Bay Area's best writers to do something a little different.
4 hrs ago | The Guardian
Is our modern way of eating killing us and our sociability? Michael Pollan serves up an extra large helping of food for thought Pollan speculates about the growing resistance of micro-organisms to antibiotics, on our western diet rich in fats and carbohydrates Photograph: PR Despite the four recipes appended to it, Michael Pollan 's Cooked doesn't ... (more)
5 hrs ago | Ventura County Star
After graduating from Ventura College with honors, she's now off to UC Berkeley
Collin Blair cheers as he and the rest of the graduates file onto the football field at the start of Ventura College's graduation ceremonies on campus Wednesday.
7 hrs ago | RecordNET
UC Berkeley among 4 colleges hit with complaints over rapes
Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred says federal complaints have been filed against four U.S. colleges over how the colleges handle rape allegations.
7 hrs ago | Business Journal
Can you read Charles Darwin's handwriting? UC Berkeley wants you
Think you can read Charles Darwin's handwriting? Try deciphering this label on a beetle he collected in Tierra del Fuego in 1833.
8 hrs ago | KSEE-TV Fresno
Nearly 60k Distracted California Drivers Ticketed in April
More than 57,000 drivers were ticketed for handheld cell phone talking or texting during April's Distracted Driving Awareness Month, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety and the California Highway Patrol .
10 hrs ago | Space.com
Lost Apollo 11 Moon Dust Found in Storage
Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.
12 hrs ago | New Scientist
String theory may limit space brain threat
LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe.
19 hrs ago | San Diego NewsCape
Governor Brown Appoints Two to San Diego County Superior Court
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Patricia Guerrero and Michael J. Popkins to judgeships in the San Diego County Superior Court.
23 hrs ago | The Amateur Economist & Curmudgeon Blog
FEMA, Berkeley, and Non-Native Trees
Why the fetish with native vs. non-native plants? Who gets to decide what the proper flora is for any specific location at any specific time? FEMA Plans Clear-Cutting 85,000 Berkeley and Oakland Trees - California Progress Report : The Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving to chop down 22,000 trees in Berkeley's historic Strawberry and ... (more)
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports
Lateral hires with tenure, 2012-13
Margaret Barry from Catholic University Columbus School of Law to Vermont Law School June Carbone from the University of Missouri, Kansas City to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Brown's Commencement Address at UC Berkeley
"First of all. Congratulations to all you graduates. It is not an easy or trouble free path that you pursued to arrive at this moment.
At Berkeley's Cottage Food Market, 'Homemade' Means Homemade
On a recent Saturday evening in Berkeley, eight vendors set up tables inside the Firehouse Art Collective's hangar-like event space to sell homemade food items, which ranged from chocolate chip cookies to jars of mustard and jam.
UC Berkeley again plows under field planted by Occupy activists in Albany
UC Berkeley on Monday plowed under a field planted by activists, the third time in just over a week the university has taken such an action.
Gov. Jerry Brown: Bay Bridge 'not going to open unless it's ready'
An acoustic sensor is attached to an anchor rod securing a critical shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013.
Menlo Park residents display their creativity at 2013 Maker Faire Bay Area
The 2013 Maker Faire Bay Area came to the San Mateo County Event Center this past weekend.
Data Center: One in six recent California law school grads can't find jobs
About 16 percent of 2012 graduates from California law schools were unemployed and looking for work nine months after graduation, according to new data from the American Bar Association.