LA Times: "When UC Berkeley officials came up with the idea of asking all new students to volunteer a DNA swab as part of an unusual fall orientation program, they expected to stimulate discussion. They weren't quite prepared for how much."
Inside Higher Ed: "Unwinding Berkeley's DNA Test"
posted by andoatnp on Jun 4, 2010 - 29 comments

Great free lectures online from the School of Information at Berkeley. The lectures are from 2007 to the present and include (among many others):

• "The Internets We Did Not Build" (Dave Clark, MIT)
• "Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters" (Henry Jenkins, MIT)
• "(Re-)Defining the Public Domain" (Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.Org)
• "Sustainable Innovation" (Judith Estrin, JLabs)

[more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Sep 10, 2009 - 10 comments

Images of Native Americans, from UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, is comprehensive online exhibit of over 400 years of text and images of Native American history. [via a Berkleyan article that has sample images and more info]
posted by kirkaracha on Aug 18, 2003 - 8 comments

Online Audio Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events Including speeches by James Baldwin, Walter Blum, Malcolm X, and Noam Chomsky, to name a few.
posted by RobertLoch on Apr 13, 2002 - 13 comments