Black at UC Berkeley. Plus: we're the weirdest people in the world

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✅Black at UC Berkeley: Professor Tyrone Hayes on discrimination in academia -- In a nation where Black people make up fewer than 5% of full-time college and university professors, UC Berkeley biology professor Tyrone Hayes stands as an exception. But the road has been hard and even at Cal, with its long history at the center of social justice movements, he’s still fighting for equal treatment. Ethan Baron in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 9/13/20

 

✅Willie Brown: Six reasons Joe Biden is likely to win the election -- The polls are beginning to show a consistent trend that has Joe Biden waxing President Trump’s wig. Willie Brown in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 9/13/20

 

✅150 million dead trees could fuel unprecedented firestorms in the Sierra Nevada

—LA Times

✅Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory
—NYT
     In a groundbreaking new book, “The WEIRDest People in the World,” an anthropologist argues that people from Western countries have a unique psychology