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Invited Interventions
Research by UC Berkeley Political Scientist Aila Matanock sheds light on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.
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Take No Prisoners
Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.
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Decline of the City-State
UC Berkeley historian Mark Peterson writes about the prominence—and ultimate decline—of city-states, using 18th- and 19th-century Boston as an example.
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Playing with Kids Pays Off Economically
A groundbreaking study by UC Berkeley researchers shows that playing with children has a profound impact on their future incomes.
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The Happy App
Tchiki Davis, a Berkeley social psychology Ph.D. candidate, is building an app to boost happiness.
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Dangerous Knowledge
An interdisciplinary working group at UC Berkeley aims to better understand how breakthrough scientific discoveries have been—and should be—regulated.
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Reconstructing Disaster
UC Berkeley graduate student Siri Colom researches how politics shaped the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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If Then What?
A Social Science Matrix seminar is examining the creeping presence of algorithms in modern society.
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Seeking New Models for Clinical Medicine
A new Social Science Matrix seminar is focused on finding radical new approaches to clinical health care.
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Waging War on Inequality
Minimum wage increases in cities have significant benefits and fewer costs than expected, according to a team of UC Berkeley economists.
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Phonological Phenomenon
A recent Social Science Matrix brought together linguists and other researchers to explore "agreement by correspondence," or ABC.
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Lie Detector
Recent research by a psychologist at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business suggests that our unconscious mind can detect lies.
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