PACS 164B: Introduction to Nonviolence - Spring 2007. An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense.

High-speed video shows how charged insects (a bee, a fly and an aphid) falling toward a spider web deform the silk by electrostatic attraction before they make contact. The final frames shows how a silk thread rapidly deforms to stick to a charged water droplet. By Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, UC Berkeley. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/07/04/spider-webs-more-effective-at-ensnaring-charged-insects

Physics 8B, 001 - Spring 2015 Introductory Physics - Melvin Pomerantz Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Since winning the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1951 at the age of 21, Adrienne Rich has become one of the towering voices of our culture. Her many volumes of poetry and criticism summon us to reexamine our lives, from gender roles to the structure of our relationships and politics. Her most recent works include the book of poems Fox, and Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies and by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. [events] [artshumanities] [lunchpoems] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services