“It’s hard to understand what I just did.”

Cal discus athlete Mykolas Alekna shattered the world record with a throw of 74.41 meters. The mark he surpassed was the longest standing record in men’s track and field history, set in 1986 by Jurgen Schult.

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“We felt reluctant to promise that much real good could come of continuing the atomic bomb work.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer was born #OTD in 1904.

Oppenheimer joined Cal as an assistant professor at age 25.

During World War II, he led the effort to develop the atomic bomb.

Congrats to Cal w's gymnastics on 2nd in the NCAAs, the program's best-ever finish. si.com/college/cal/ca…

Amen. When I interviewed at Bell Labs at the end of graduate school, I was asked to prepare a 45 min talk that took me 90 min to deliver -- thanks to all the interrupting questions and debate that ensued. It was fantastic! It meant that they cared, and they pushed me in…

It's shocking that a City of Berkeley city council member can be elected with fewer than 120 votes. In the D7 student district race, the tally this am was 117 votes for @CeciliaLunaparra and 77 for @JamesChang. UC Berkeley students, where are you? berkeleyside.org/2024/04/16/ber…

Milicent Washburn Shinn, Cal🌟 BA 1880, Ph.D. 1898, was born April 15, 1858. Shinn was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California. Her dissertation on child psychology 'Notes on the Development of a Child,' became a classic text in the field.

Thomas Schelling, Cal🌟 Class of 1944, was born April 14, 1921. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for pioneering evolutionary game theory. As directed in his will, his Nobel Medal was auctioned and the proceeds donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2018.

Three former Cal golfers are on the leaderboard at the Masters. How's that alumni.berkeley.edu/california-mag…

Yesterday, as the total solar eclipse swept across North America, millions were left awestruck.

Awe is certainly a profound emotion, but it doesn't have to be a rare one. We can even experience it in our everyday lives, says Dacher Keltner.

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It's about to happen again, and it'll be the last one in the US for 20 years.

Ahead of the North American total solar eclipse on Monday, revisit our 2023 Cal Live! event with UC Berkeley astrophysicist and devoted eclipse chaser Alex Filippenko.

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Baseball's back. This MLB season, fans will see more rule tweaks that build off the changes implemented last year to shorten games and make play more exciting. But almost 100 years ago, a visionary Cal baseball coach proposed an even bolder rule change.

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If you couldn't get a ticket to California Live! (now sold out), consider this event with Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter. Based on a popular UC Berkeley course, it will teach you how to make better decisions in an age of information overload.

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Last week, the University of California turned 156 years old. It owes its founding to the Morrill Act, which granted parcels of public land to states to finance the nation's first universities. But where did those 'public lands' originally come from?

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Civil rights attorney Shalini Goel Agarwal is regularly in the trenches for democracy, from protecting poll workers to fighting book bans. But her path to the front lines wasn’t a straight course.

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Associate professor emeritus in rhetoric and Celtic studies at Berkeley Dan Melia thinks most of what you know about Saint Patrick’s Day is rubbish. For example: St. Patrick was British, not Irish. Find out what else you’re wrong about 👇
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The Salton Sea region is poised to become one of the world's largest producers of lithium, with enough 'white gold' to power the country's battery needs for many years. But what does this mean for the residents who already live there?

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Jeff Goodell has been reporting on the climate for more than 15 years. In the latest episode of The Edge, we speak with him about his new book, in which he examines one of the most obvious but also overlooked aspects of climate change: extreme heat.

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Sunsets over campus never get old 💙💛

Love is complicated. Last Valentine’s Day, we turned to Emiliana Simon-Thomas for answers on questions about the biological basis for love, the different kinds of human love, and unconventional arrangements like polyamory.
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