Life before Vaccines: Growing up in the 1930s and 40s
Aug 30, 2019 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery.
Nature Shows Its Right Angles - Berkeley Daily Planet
Sep 7, 2012 · Features. Nature Shows Its Right Angles. Gertrude Stein's observation, "There is no straight line in nature," has prompted critics to supply a long list of nature's linear rebuttals—the path of a falling acorn on a windless day, the flat membrane that forms at the merging of two soap-bubbles, the hexagonal walls of a honeycomb, the edge of a ...
Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley
Aug 3, 2010 · Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley. Tilden in 1903, when he was near the height of his success and popularity. Tilden’s “Football Players” on the Cal campus is the oldest piece of permanent outdoor sculpture on the University grounds. Thirty years ago Tilden’s “Bear Hunt” statue was plucked by a crane from the ...
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
Nov 1, 2024 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. One day before the presidential election (November 4, 2024), the Chronicle published the Open Forum piece: Trump’s power could go unchecked by Erwin Chemerinsky, preeminent liberal Constitutional Law scholar and dean of the UC Berkeley School of law.Surely, no one who read the piece learned anything they did not already know about Trump.
Contact The Planet - Berkeley Daily Planet
Sep 1, 2024 · The Berkeley Daily Planet. Contact The Planet. Phone: (510) 845-8440 NEW. Mail P.O. Box 5534, Berkeley, CA 94705. To submit opinions: Email: Commentaries are usually between 400 and 1,000 words. To be published, Commentaries must be signed by the writer’s real first and last name. Please provide an address and a telephone number so that we ...
Elect Margot Smith for State Assembly - Berkeley Daily Planet
Feb 25, 2024 · Margot Smith for Assembly FPPC #146308 P. O. Box 9419, Berkeley, CA 94709 . [email protected] 510-660-5508
Pink Man returns to Berkeley in multimedia show
May 30, 2002 · It seems to work. Several years ago, Pink Man was named “Favorite Local Character” in a San Francisco Chronicle readers’ poll—no small feat when you consider the multitude of colorful personalities thronging the Bay Area. And now he’s appearing on stage. “I Wheel,” an original multimedia performance, is at the Live Oak Theater May ...
Inside the Free Speech Movement—New Documentary
Sep 1, 2024 · The Berkeley Historical Society will be having two premiers of Linda Rosen's new documentary, “Inside the Free Speech Movement,” on Sept. 5 and Sept. 12 at 7 pm.
Features - Berkeley Daily Planet
Thursday June 27, 2002. SAN DIEGO — In halting and heavily-accented English, a former Soviet spy recounted Wednesday how she became an FBI informant in a murder-for-hire case. Svetlana Ogorodnikova this week is testifying as a key government witness, seven years after her release from prison. She was convicted of seducing a Los Angeles FBI ...
Still Haven't Voted? Our Last Words on the Subject
Feb 13, 2024 · So okay, people have been asking me how I’m voting. Even my sister has called from Santa Cruz to ask. Well, sadly, no dice. It’s Sunday afternoon, and I still haven’t opened my ballot envelope.