Income inequality matters for everyone, but it matters differently for different groups of people, conclude the authors of a new UC Berkeley study. Researchers linked greater gaps in wealth to more deaths among black Americans and fewer deaths among white Americans.
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Greed is good. Competition is natural. War is inevitable. In political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power-hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion and seeks to better understand why we evolved emotions like empathy, compassion and gratitude.
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On Dec. 2, 1964, UC Berkeley students challenging a campus ban on political advocacy took over the administration building in what would be the apex of the Free Speech Movement. The sit-in ended the next day with 814 people arrested, the largest mass arrests in California history. The campus opened to student activism in early 1965 - and a national tradition of collegiate protest was born.
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