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Friday, 23 October 2009
1. Biofuels Could Increase Greenhouse Gases
Rules have loophole exempting carbon dioxide emitted by bioenergy regardless of its source that could lead to loss of most of the world's natural forests
Industry Week
October 23, 2009
Washington — US experts warn that rules governing biofuel production encourage deforestation and mean the technology is therefore a "false" method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In a study to be published Friday in the US journal Science, a group of 13 scientists called for the rules, which contain a loophole exempting carbon dioxide emitted by bioenergy regardless of its source, to be overturned.
"The error is serious, but readily fixable," said lead researcher Timothy Searchinger of Princeton University....
The rules were found in the Kyoto Protocol, which was framed in 1997 and put into force in 2005, legally binding 37 industrialized countries to cut their greenhouse gas output, noted RESEARCHER DANIEL KAMMEN.
The European Union's Emissions Trading System and this year's climate bill passed by US House members also enable the same loophole, said KAMMEN, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN BERKELEY....
Kammen said nations approaching climate treaty negotiations needed to recognize the "vital" importance of properly evaluating technologies proposed as solutions to global warming....
[CBC News (Canada) also issued a story on this topic] Full Story
2. Security Flaws Discovered In Calif. EDD Website
KPIX TV
October 22, 2009
San Francisco (CBS 5) -- It's one of the most serious security breaches one computer expert has ever seen. CBS 5 Investigates has discovered a state-run web site may be putting hundreds of thousands of Californians at risk of identity theft....
For laid off workers such as Tom Diederich of Pacifica, it's a requirement: To get unemployment benefits you have to post your resume on CalJOBS, the state's job site. "I filled out my employment history and I saved it," said Diederich, who bookmarked it for future reference.
But the next day when he clicked back in he said, "I saw someone else's information. I saw their name, where they live, their email, their phone number....
CBS 5 asked UC BERKELEY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROFESSOR AND PRIVACY EXPERT, DOUG TYGAR to take a look at Diederich's problem. He said, "I consider that to be a serious security breach."
But it turns out, not the only one. Because just moments after beginning his examination of that website, using Diederich's web link, Tygar was able to get into the site, and look at other applicants' supposedly private data. "I was able to access other people's personal information including their address, their phone numbers, email, personal details," Tygar said....
Tygar said a hacker looking for identities to steal could have thousands of resumes at his disposal. "They are giving the information out to people who they shouldn't."...
Tygar said, "it does not appear to me that the CalJOBS website was designed with security as its primary goal, and I think they need to go back and re-engineer the website to make privacy a number one priority."... Full Story
3. William Watson: No easy early warning
Politicians think that better oversight will prevent the next recession. That will be harder than they think
National Post [Canada]
October 22, 2009
One way the world supposedly will guard against a repetition of last fall’s financial collapse is by setting up “early warning systems” to detect emerging “systemic risks.” The various declarations of the G20 countries to this effect, starting in Pittsburgh a year ago, conjured up images of grainy old DEW line movies, in which teams of young, crew-cut NORAD airmen, shivering Cold-warriors, stood guard outside big silvery radar domes strewn across our high arctic, listening for Soviet bombers. In the same way, squads of 21st century Distant Early Warning system soldiers are to be stationed in potential financial hot spots, scanning the horizon for the first sign of dangerously inflating bubbles.
A new study by ANDREW ROSE OF THE HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (BERKELEY) and Mark Spiegel of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests their job won’t be easy. ...
Their study is comprehensive almost to a fault. They look at data for 107 countries and include literally dozens of variables that should have/could have been explanations for what happened. Given the comprehensiveness of their statistical sifting, the study’s almost shocking result is that virtually none of the usual-suspect variables proves a good cross-country forecaster of what happened last autumn....
Calling their work “an early warning about early warning,” Rose and Spiegel conclude that, “Our negative results show that constructing a plausible model that can predict financial crisis... will be challenging” — which is a lovely academic understatement. Full Story
4. Molecules aid nanoparticle assembly
The Engineer Online [UK]
October 23, 2009
Researchers in the US claim to have found a simple and robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays.
The team, from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, found that by adding specific types of small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, they could direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two and three dimensions with no additional chemical modification....
The leader of this most recent project, TING XU, A POLYMER SCIENTIST FROM BERKELEY UNIVERSITY, claims a better approach is to use block copolymers - long sequences or ‘blocks’ of one type of monomer molecule bound to blocks of another type of monomer molecule....
‘Bring together the right basic components - nanoparticles, polymers and small molecules - stimulate the mix with a combination of heat, light or some other factors and these components will assemble into sophisticated structures or patterns,’ said Xu. ‘It is not dissimilar from how nature does it.’ Full Story
5. Making a cellular menagerie
Molecular biologist Caroline Kane talks about a new image library of the cell.
Nature
October 23, 2009
A US $2.5-million stimulus grant has been awarded to the American Society for Cell Biology in Bethesda, Maryland, to establish an online open-access database called 'The Cell: An Image Library'. The society is using the money to hire eight part-time annotators, who will help to compile images and videos for the site. Nature caught up with MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST CAROLINE KANE, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, who is delaying her retirement to be principal investigator on the project....
What's the need for this kind of image bank?
The existing cell image databases (all that we know of) have a limited focus — on a particular cell type or a particular cell process. You would have to go to that specific database to learn about how your favourite organelle, or cell mutant, looked.
The vision is that the library will be as useful to researchers as the genetic sequence databases are now. That means populating it with cells of all different types as well as images and movies of what's happening inside the cell....
So how is it going to help working scientist?
I like to use this analogy: my laboratory works on transcriptional regulation so when I image the cell, I'm interested in what's happening in the nucleus. But the rest of the cell is still there. I work with yeast cells, so if somebody is looking at protein transport or is interested in what happens in a particular mutant series that I have generated, they can look at the structure of the golgi in those cells and see if anything interesting has happened. I don't care about the golgi.... Full Story
6. Letters from our readers
Contra Costa Times (*requires registration)
October 23, 2009
Chancellor fails
Matt Krupnick has earned a reputation as one of the best investigative reporters. Unfortunately, I'd rate the article on UC BERKELEY CHANCELLOR ROBERT BIRGENEAU's decision to pay $3 million to outsiders from Boston to do his job a C.
Consulting firms like Bain get their recommendations from interviewing the senior management that hired them and will be approving their monthly consultant fees and expense reports.
Remember the nationally known auditors who submitted recommendations that senior management wanted to hear and fooled government oversight agencies and the public?...
Milan Moravec, Walnut Full Story
7. Will Recession Forever Scar Young Investors?
Smart Money
October 23, 2009
People who lived through the Great Depression were shaped thoroughly by the experience — so much so that many of them never gave up habits of extreme thrift, aversion to financial risk and even hoarding behavior.
As we begin the long climb out of the Great Recession, a question presents itself: How will this experience shape this generation’s minds and habits going forward?
A pair of recent studies may shed some light. The cognitive effects of financial shocks are long-lasting — and for those who go through them in early adulthood, can shape one’s entire outlook on life....
To see just how substantially our experiences can influence our future behavior, take a look at another recent NBER paper. ULRIKE MALMENDIER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY and Stefan Nagel of Stanford University looked at the investment behavior of people who experienced the Great Depression in young adulthood. They found that these “Depression babies,” once they reached midlife, had only about a 13% participation rate in the stock market. Understandably, these folks were largely spooked out of the market for life....
The lesson: We’re slaves to what’s known as “availability bias.” We form our predictions about the world based on the data most readily available to us — on what’s happened to us personally, or what’s happened to our friends, or what we’ve read in the papers or seen on TV.... Full Story
8. Magic Tricks on the Corporate Books
With the stroke of a pen, companies can make themselves appear more financially fit than they are
Business Week
October 21, 2009
Accounting shenanigans bubble to the surface every few years. In the dot-com days the trick was to book virtual revenues. After the tech bust, tinkering with expenses was all the rage. Now forensic auditors and analysts worry that troubled companies are playing fast and loose with asset valuations and cash management.
These recent numbers games, which rely on some familiar techniques, may be the most troublesome yet. Companies that employ aggressive accounting tactics aren't just inflating earnings and cash flow—their motive may also be to hide a true financial picture from lenders to avoid losing credit and other lifelines. "It's not like a penny of earnings-per-share problem," says Mark LaMonte, chief credit officer at ratings agency Moody's Investors Service (MCO). "These things will knock you off the cliff completely." And the gimmicks only underscore the tenuous nature of the earnings recovery, which currently is lifting investors' spirits....
Consider the accounting for boom-time acquisitions. When a company purchases another business, it books any premium paid as an asset called goodwill. Amid the bust, many deals have eroded in value. But corporate accountants, who have a lot of leeway under the accounting rules, may be delaying writedowns until the last possible moment. When they recognize the acquisition-related loss, the hit could be substantial. "We won't see the problem until it's clearly worse than expected," says RICHARD G. SLOAN, A PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.... Full Story
9. Is the Stimulus Helping?
Time Magazine
November 2, 2009
The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that Congress approved last February was the first major legislative accomplishment of the Obama White House. Lately, it has also become one of Washington's most frequently tossed political footballs....
I got my rough baseline from a conversation at the height of last fall's financial panic with BARRY EICHENGREEN, AN ECONOMIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, who is an expert on the Great Depression. "I doubt that we'll be able to avoid double-digit unemployment," he told me. "But I'm still confident we can avoid 24% unemployment like in 1933."... Full Story
10. Solar power's payoff may be worth it for some, but not all
Desert Sun [Palm Springs]
October 22, 2009
When he installed solar panels on his home, retired engineer John Ludemann calculated the return on his investment....
Ludemann plunked down about $28,000 for his new 7-kilowatt system, a figure that includes California's solar rebate, but not the 30 percent federal income tax credit he'll be able to claim for 2009. He estimates he'll save 75 percent on his electric bills....
The question of who and how quickly solar pencils out remains a central question for homeowners and solar installers.
SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, CO-DIRECTOR OF THE ENERGY INSTITUTE AT UC BERKELEY'S HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, argues that analyses of the cost savings of solar should be based on the cost of the power it's replacing.
“If you're a heavy consumer to your baseline, paying 30 cents per kilowatt- hour, solar starts to make sense after rebates,” Borenstein said. “For some people, it saves no money. They (should) probably spend the money improving the energy efficiency of their house. Energy efficiency saves you more money than solar can.”... Full Story
11. Secretary's Talk About Teachers Colleges Isn't All Negative
Chronicle of Higher Education (*requires registration)
October 22, 2009
It's been a rough month for the nation's teacher colleges.
Two weeks ago, in a speech at the University of Virginia, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called teachers colleges the "neglected stepchild" of higher education. On Thursday, he was back at it, accusing "many, if not most" of the country's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education of doing a "mediocre" job of preparing potential teachers for the rigors of the modern classroom....
Still, some educators and students said that the secretary painted teachers colleges with too broad a brush, arguing that strong education programs now outnumber weak ones.
"He's half right. There are some programs out there that should close their doors," said P. DAVID PEARSON, DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY'S GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. "But most of the programs I know ... are really solid."... Full Story
12. Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement
CNET
October 22, 2009
Nokia is suing Apple over 10 patents the Finnish phone maker says it owns related to wireless handsets.
The largest handset maker in the world is suing the maker of one of the most popular, the iPhone, because, according to a statement released by Nokia on Thursday, Apple has refused to license any of the patents in question. All iPhone models dating back to the original introduced in 2007 are infringing, according to Nokia. Nokia is asking the U.S. District Court in Delaware for an injunction (PDF) on sales of iPhones and for unspecified damages....
"There are companies that are patent trolls, that don't participate in the creation of technology, or they secretly acquire them. Nokia's not one of these companies. They're pretty up front about the patents they own," noted JASON SCHULTZ, DIRECTOR OF THE SAMUELSON LAW, TECHNOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY CLINIC AT THE UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW. "They're probably not trying to put Apple out of business...but force Apple to play the same game that every other phone company has to play."...
Apple could settle out of court, or it could try to show that Nokia either doesn't own the patents or that they're not valid in this case, both of which would be difficult, said Schultz.
"Invalidating 10 patents is a lot, that's like running the Boston Marathon. It's really hard to do. You might get one, two or even five," he said. "But 10 is a lot."... Full Story
13. Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming
PhysOrg
October 23, 2009
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And now, seven years later, a good computer chip has a clock speed of... still about three gigahertz.
Four or five years ago, chip makers realized that they couldn't make chips go much faster, so they adopted a new strategy for increasing computers' power: putting multiple "cores," or processing units, on each chip. In theory, a chip with two cores working in parallel can accomplish twice as much as a chip with one core. But software developers tend to see their programs as lists of sequential instructions, and they've had trouble breaking up those instructions in ways that take advantage of parallel processing. Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Saman Amarasinghe and his colleagues at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are giving them a hand....
"A lot of other people have this alternative approach," says KRSTE ASANOVIC, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE PARALLEL COMPUTING LAB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. "You kind of just run it [the parallel program] however it runs and then try and record what it did so then you can go back and replay it." But with the MIT system, he says, "You don't have to worry about recording how it executed because when you execute it, it will always run the same way. So it's strictly more powerful than replay."...
"Other people had talked about stream programming, but StreamIt was really putting everything together in a language and compiler tool chain so people could actually write streaming programs," says Asanovic. "So I think the language design and compiler tool chain that followed from that was pretty influential."... Full Story
14. Argonne scientist named top young innovator
Nanoparticle work could lead to ultra-efficient solar cells, faster computers
Chicago Tribune
October 23, 2009
Elena Shevchenko spends her days mixing and matching nanoparticles that measure one billionth of a meter.
To the average person, research involving such infinitesimal levels can't get much more abstract. But the work Shevchenko is doing at Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont is providing the building blocks for a field with still unforeseen capabilities in medicine, electronics and energy....
The 32-year-old scientist's research in nanoscience recently earned her the distinction of being named one of the country's top young innovators. Technology Review, a scientific magazine that covers emerging technologies, annually reviews hundreds of submissions and selects 35 young innovators under the age of 35 for their work in developing new technologies or creatively using existing technology....
Shevchenko credits her early successes to advisers and colleagues from throughout her career who had the "unique combination" of being "extraordinary scientists with great personalities."
PAUL ALIVISATOS, [UC BERKELEY PROFESSOR and] interim director of the Berkeley laboratory, in turn had high praise for Shevchenko, who he said is "one of the top scientists worldwide in the synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals and nanocrystal superlattices."
"These," Alivisatos explained, "are fundamental new building blocks for making new materials with applications in batteries, solar cells and many other exciting areas." Full Story
15. Jobs: Reports Run Hot and Cold
New York Times & International Herald Tribune (*requires registration)
October 23, 2009
That was fast. A year after the financial downturn and a taxpayer-financed recovery, Wall Streeters are again circling the Bay Area’s top universities for fresh talent. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley continue to recruit at Stanford, while familiar names like UBS and Credit Suisse are pitching STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY.
Career counselors say the demand for their students is no greater than a year ago, but they take comfort in the fact that it has remained stable. As an industry, financial services has grown significantly as a source of jobs in San Francisco over the past five years, according to a government report due out next month.... Full Story
16. Corrections
San Francisco Chronicle
October 23, 2009
...The Next Generation: Students confront global inequities, Oct. 18, Insight, E3
In a Sunday package about the BLUM CENTER AT UC BERKELEY, a short article by Ursula Wagner imprecisely referred to poor people with whom she worked in Colombia; it should have described them as "internally displaced persons." Full Story
17. Snapshots from 25 years of publicizing astronomy by Stephen Maran
Science News
November 7, 2009
Astronomer and author Stephen P. Maran recently retired from 25 years as press officer for the American Astronomical Society. He also worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for more than 35 years. Known for his Einsteinian hair, along with his quips and insightful comments at press briefings that drew record crowds, Maran spoke with Science News writer Ron Cowen about his experiences in astronomy and public outreach....
You’ve presided over hundreds of press briefings. Which were the most interesting and which astronomy discoveries do you consider the most important?...
For several years, researchers announced what turned out to be incorrect claims of finding planets around sunlike stars. Then January 1996 began the Marcy-Butler era. GEOFF MARCY, NOW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, and Paul Butler, now at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., announced the discovery of the second and third known planets to orbit a sunlike star beyond the solar system, both of which might contain water. The astronomers were just as interested as the press, and the briefing had to be held in a large lecture hall.
Other briefings during that meeting, held in San Antonio, included new results on distant galaxies. Those discoveries were based on 10 days of observations with Hubble of a tiny patch of sky known as the Hubble Deep Field, along with new findings about dark matter.
I called that meeting “the Super Bowl of astronomy,” a phrase many reporters ended up citing. Newspapers ran editorials noting that discoveries announced at that meeting had made the front page of The New York Times three days in a row.... Full Story
18. Bay Area stargazers to honor Galileo
San Francisco Chronicle
October 23, 2009
It was 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, trained his crude telescope on the sky and saw four tiny moons revolving around the planet Jupiter.
His epochal discovery provided proof that Earth must revolve around the sun, and this weekend Bay Area astronomers - both professional and amateur - will celebrate "Galilean Nights" with public star parties, outdoor lectures, jazz and other events.
It's all part of the International Astronomical Union's Year of Astronomy, with similar events scheduled around the world.
In the Bay Area, clear skies are forecast for the weekend. Public events begin tonight, when the UC BERKELEY ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT holds a special free evening.
Here are the details of all the planned events:
UC Berkeley
Where: Campbell Hall on the east side of campus.
When: 7 to 8:30 p.m.
What: Graduate students will show how to assemble "Galileoscope" kits that will be on sale at a subsidized price of $10, and amateurs will set up their own telescopes outside the building for everyone to stargaze.... Full Story
19. 2011 may be announced the year of Czeslaw Milosz in Lithuania
Baltic Course
October 23, 2009
It is proposed to announce year 2011 the year of famous POET CZESLAW MILOSZ. This draft resolution has been registered by Valentinas Stundys, head of the Seimas' Committee on Education, Science and Culture, at the Secretariat of the Seimas' sittings, reports ELTA/LETA.
The draft resolution is submitted regarding the fact that the year 2011 marks 100 years since poet's birth and his anniversary is included into the UNESCO calendar of events. In this way, it is also aimed to deepen cultural cooperation between Lithuania and Poland. The Seimas intends to propose the Government to establish a Milosz anniversary celebration commission and draft a public anniversary celebration programme. It is also proposed to provide funds in the state budget for 2011 to commemorate the anniversary of the poet.
Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz was born on 30 June 1911, in Seteniai, Kedainiai district. Ceslovas Milosas studied at Vilnius Zygimantas Augustas school, graduated from the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University in 1934. After the Second World War, he started working as a diplomat in Poland's representation offices in New York and Washington. From 1961 to 1998 HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.... Full Story
20. Tuned In: Back to the Bach basics: Berkeley professor tackles the entire "Well-Tempered Clavier"
Contra Costa Times (*requires registration)
October 23, 2009
A marathon will take place on the UC BERKELEY CAMPUS this weekend, and while it may not be of the strictly athletic variety, it nonetheless will be a test of endurance and excellence that will take some prowess and panache to pull off.
MUSICOLOGIST AND PROFESSOR DAVITT MORONEY, a renowned harpsichordist who has recorded nearly 60 CDs of early music, will assay, over a two-day period, the entire "The Well-Tempered Clavier" of Johann Sebastian Bach. This monumental work in two books, composed in 1722 and 1742, is a virtual Mt. Everest for a keyboard performer; in its entirety it contains 48 contrapuntally complex preludes and fugues, two of each written in all 24 of the major and minor keys. Bach declared the work "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study," and many in that latter group took him at his word. Both Mozart and Haydn made a close study of it, and that gigantic figure of the Romantic period, Beethoven, practically built his reputation as a pianist by playing it in concert during his youth.
MORONEY, ALSO THE UNIVERSITY ORGANIST AND DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY BAROQUE ENSEMBLE, will give a free lecture about "The Well-Tempered Clavier" from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday in Hertz Hall on the campus near Bancroft Way at College. He will perform Book I of the work at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hertz Hall and return there at 3 p.m. Sunday for a performance of Book II that will include a 90-minute intermission at the midpoint. Tickets, at $38 for each program, are available at 510-642-9988 or www.calperformances.org.... Full Story
21. Garrison Keillor bringing new batch of stories to UC Berkeley performance
Oakland Tribune
October 23, 2009
Garrison Keillor, famed storyteller/sage of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion," has an unexpected new gig — motivational speaker at sporting events.
It's not really a full-fledged second career — or, in Keillor's busy case, fifth or sixth career — but he did give a pep talk earlier this month for the University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers football team....
"Anyway, they went out and beat Purdue the next day, so I guess it was worth something."
Keillor said he had no plans to do the same for the CAL BEARS this week when he drops by UC BERKELEY for a performance Wednesday night. He'll be at ZELLERBACH HALL to tell a collection of new stories — they're so new, in fact, they don't even have names yet.
"I'm going to tell stories about growing up in the Midwest and growing up fundamentalist, in the midst of the ferocious climate and in the midst of God's frozen people, and how one survives it, either through religious faith or fantasy. I chose fantasy."... Full Story
22. Remember the Silent Majority
Regarding our received image of the sixties, it’s time to question authority.
National Review Online
October 23, 2009
An NRO Q&A
Don’t believe what you’ve seen in the movies. Malcom X wasn’t friendly with Martin Luther King, most anti-war protesters were just looking “to get laid,” and plenty of Americans lived through the whole decade without seeing a hippie, save on TV. Jonathan Leaf, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties, answers some questions from National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez to set our record straight on that infamous decade.
Kathryn Jean Lopez: If sixties radicals “were a small minority on college campuses and were often held in disdain by their fellow students,” why have they had so much cultural influence?
Jonathan Leaf: Because through Hollywood movies, TV shows, and books, they’ve managed to tell a tale that reflects their own narcissistic vision of themselves as central and heroic to the time. Have you ever seen a Hollywood movie celebrating sixties counter-protesters who supported the Vietnam War? Did you know that hundreds of Berkeley students protested the “Free Speech” radicals? ... Full Story
23. The Great Beyond Blog: Songs About Science XXX: Safety first!
Nature Online
October 23, 2009
Those wonderful people who came up with The Nano Song have done it again.
The Safety Song is sung by The Sounds of Science, who say they are “a small group of GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RECENT ALUMNI OF UC BERKELEY that share a common love of science and music. Our aim is to promote awareness of science to the community of all ages through fun music videos available free on the internet.”
[Link to video] Full Story