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You may have heard about some flyers flying around campus lately, so you might know that serious sh*t is supposed to go down in the next three days. To that end, the Clog’s got a calendar of events, a “schedule” if you will, that will (hopefully) clear things up a bit.
(Note: What follows is a straight copy+paste. Kind of text heavy. Peruse at your own risk.)
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After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on Earth.
According to Reuters, the English are some of the least attractive people on the planet—at least as measured by their 12.5 (for men) and 15 percent (for women) acceptance rates into beautifulpeople.com, an “elite dating site” where hopeful members submit a picture to be voted on whether they’re beautiful or not. Of course, the voters were themselves inducted based on read more »
My roommate used up all the toilet paper. When you gotta go, you gotta go. I went. FML
So says someone at UC Berkeley FML, which has apparently been up since around Nov. 3. But the above comment, like a couple, seem to be general FML posts found across other campus FML sites—like at Stanford or Yale.
But here are some of the (few) for-sure Berkeley FML posts we found. Take them as you will. read more »
Sunday Shout-Out picks out the week’s stories that simply slipped our minds.
Last volleyball home game today at 12:30 p.m. and it’s free to all students. Plus: autographs! [Bear Bytes]
The hypothetical Mayor’s Urban Driving Competition: the most dangerous game? [NY Times]
A shitton of books for various Cal classes. But you won’t find any C++ books here. [UCB LJ]
Phillip Garrido apologizes “to every human being.” Somehow we don’t think this quite makes up for anything. [SFist]
Bears win a home game against the ranked Arizona Wildcats with a little circumstantial help [Daily Cal], [ESPN]
Image Source: Shirin Ghaffary, Daily Cal [ASIB]
Earlier: Bad News Bay-ers
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As we mentioned earlier, Wonderfest 2009—the self-titled “San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science”—was partially held in Stanford today and is coming to UC Berkeley’s Stanley Hall on Sunday.
And though registration is not required (admission is free), there is a RSVP form.
Below, the schedule of events according to the Wonderfest site:
10:00 am — Do Robots Make Better Astronauts?
* Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center
* Kanna Rajan, Principal Researcher for Autonomy, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute read more »
Unlike the above video, the best theory for what causes this type of supernova requires two white dwarfs instead of one.
In a nutshell, UC Berkeley astronomers happened upon some data that classified a supernova (later creatively named SN2002bj) discovered in 2002 as Type II, which turns out to be pretty common, and realized the brightness and duration were closer to read more »
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This Tuesday, enjoy some free pizza on Memorial Glade courtesy of Caliber Magazine, which touts itself as “the most talked-about publication on campus.” Of course, the free food isn’t the main reason for the event. Just the primary reason.
But seriously, the description according to Facebook: read more »
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It seems like the Lawrence Berkeley Lab is always getting in the news for something or other. Now, it’s for getting a pretty sweet cut out of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act pot—$7 million, to be vaguely precise. And this time the funding is for geothermal energy research.
“Now wait a minute, Clog,” you suspiciously ask. read more »
Add another Berkeleyan to the growing list of people winning prizes for being awesome. This time it’s Geoff Marcy, astronomy professor and planet hunter extraordinaire. Yes, that’s right, he freaking hunts god damn planets for a living. Planets. How’s that for a line on the good ol’ resumé?
Professor Marcy won this year’s Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization this time. We say “this time” as some may remember when he shared the million dollar read more »
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The Clog was walking through Wheeler Hall (or Dwinelle, we can’t remember—they’re so similar) when it spotted a mightily-attractive poster concerning public higher education, albeit one with very little information.
It’s promoting an event titled “THE CRISIS of the PUBLIC UNIVERSITY” and seems to want to draw an audience based on name-recognition of the speakers—no mention of what anyone will be saying.
And the speakers, according to the poster, are read more »
