| 'Black Nature': Symposium and anthology add to voices on the environment |
"Nature is everywhere in writing, yet we've all kind of signed off on the idea that it's something that white writers do," says Berkeley English professor Cecil Giscombe, who will be among the poets and scholars speaking at an upcoming symposium that will debunk that kind of thinking. Hosted by Berkeley, the event will illuminate 400 rich years of African American nature writing, as evidenced in a new, first-ever anthology of nature poetry by black writers.
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| Afternoon nap boosts brain's learning capacity |
New research from UC Berkeley shows that an hour's nap can
dramatically boost and restore your brainpower. The findings
suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but
can make you smarter.
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'A Woman's Nation' reveals a workplace transformation
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Women now make up half the American workforce, a dramatic social
transformation over just one generation, according to the Shriver
Report, co-produced by a Berkeley Law team. But public policy hasn't
kept up with this social revolution, a problem aired in a recent panel discussion by some of the report's authors at the law school.
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