Though she's missed classes, lost sleep and put her social life on hold since becoming UC student regent in July, Berkeley senior Sadia Saifuddin is upbeat about her role, calling it a blessing and a job "I was meant to do.".
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Climate change is pushing us toward the brink of a sixth global extinction, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. But "it's not a done deal," says integrative biology professor Anthony Barnosky - if we can change our habits. Barnosky elaborates in his new book, Dodging Extinction. He also appears in a new documentary, Mass Extinction, Life at the Brink, airing Nov. 30 on the Smithsonian Channel.
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Do you, like many Americans, cheat yourself of sleep? UC Berkeley neuroscientist and sleep researcher Matthew Walker will be featured Nov. 30 in Sleepless in America, a documentary on the National Geographic Channel that lays out in gripping detail exactly how it hurts us to scrimp on sleep time.
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