Dan Hammer, a Berkeley Ph.D. candidate, has been a volunteer firefighter, was instrumental in launching Global Forest Watch, taught math at San Quentin, raced canoes in the South Pacific, and boasts a personal-best 27 seconds at solving a Rubik's Cube. And now he's a U.S. Presidential Innovation Fellow, working on quantum computing for NASA.
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When it comes to prospects for feeding the world, organic farming is often criticized for lower yields than chemically intensive agriculture. But now, new research from UC Berkeley shows that organic crop yields are higher than previously thought. Researchers also found that diversified farms and multicropping and crop rotation improve the productivity of organic agriculture.
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When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. UC Berkeley scientists have found mounting brain evidence that helps explain how humans have excelled at "relational reasoning," a cognitive skill we use to solve problems.
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