Berkeley Voices Podcast
1) 131: How this new color stretches the limits of human perception
Last month, UC Berkeley researchers published a study about how they tricked the eye into seeing a new color. It was a highly saturated teal, a peacock green, the greenest of all greens. The scie...Show More
2) 130: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.
When Ann Johnson had a rare brainstem stroke at age 30, she lost control of all of her muscles. One minute, she was playing volleyball with her friends. The next, she couldn’t move or speak. Up u...Show More
3) 129: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?
When Winnie Wong first saw Dafen Oil Painting Village in 2006, it was nothing like she’d imagined. The Chinese village was known for mass producing copies of Western art. She’d read about it in T...Show More
4) 128: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship
Have you ever seen letters from the 1800s? Aside from the pristine penmanship and grammar, the way friends expressed their fondness for each other is remarkable.“Letters sent between friends are often...Show More
5) 127: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?
Against her mom’s warnings, UC Berkeley political scientist Marika Landau-Wells watched Arachnaphobia as a kid. Ever since, she has been terrified of spiders. But over the years, she has learned to re...Show More
6) 126: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.
For UC Berkeley Professor Jack Tseng, the world of paleontology never gets old. With each new discovery, paleontologists like him learn more about the animals that walked the earth millions of years a...Show More
7) 125: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults
Like millions of other Americans, UC Berkeley Professor Poulomi Saha watched a lot of docuseries about cults during the COVID-19 pandemic. The more Saha watched, the more they felt a kind of change wi...Show More
8) 124: In some people, psychopathy goes undetected. A recent UC Berkeley study offers a solution.
In a June 2024 study, UC Berkeley psychology professor Keanan Joyner and his colleagues found that by using a combination of methods tailored to the multidimensional nature of psychopathy, we could tr...Show More
9) 123: One brain, two languages
For the first three years of Justin Davidson's childhood in Chicago, his mom spoke only Spanish to him. Although he never spoke the language as a young child, when Davidson began to learn Spanish in m...Show More
10) 122: A language divided
There are countless English varieties in the U.S. There's Boston English and California English and Texas English. There's Black English and Chicano English. There's standard academic, or white, Engli...Show More