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Online Education: College Lite by the Byte

...periodic table, or that economics consists of learning a few acronyms, then MOOCs are for you. I just hope you aren't a university president.Norman Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-03-26/online-education-co
Guest Columns
It's time to rethink ethanol program

...backsliding on air quality issues since ethanol looks like it increases ozone levels."As Professor Tad Patzek of the University of California puts it, "In terms of renewable fuels, ethanol is the worst solution. It has the highest energy cost with...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-07-27/its-time-rethink-et
Guest Columns
Ideal History

...in mechanical engineering. In 1991 he earned a master's degree in financial and business management at the University of California in San Diego.During his career he worked as an engineer and then eventually became a corporate executive at...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-08-19/ideal-history
News
Police arrest 11 during Occupy Minnesota protest

...activist these days. She said she finds it "really cool" when one of her professors who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley tells stories about the old days of student protests, but she's noticed that students now are...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-11-18/police-arrest-11-during-occupy-minne
News
Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet

...black holes known to exist - each one 10 billion times the size of our sun.A team led by astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the two gigantic black holes in clusters of elliptical galaxies more than 300 million...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-12-05/scientists-find-monster-black-holes-
News
A scarcity of women leads men to become impulsive

...Tybur (VU University Amsterdam), Joshua M. Ackerman (M.I.T.), Andrew Delton and Theresa Robertson (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Andrew E. White (Arizona State University). Sex Ratios Affect Expectations of Women...

http://brainerddispatch.com/business/2012-01-12/scarcity-women-leads-men-become-
Business
Autism may be linked to obesity during pregnancy

...for maintaining a normal weight, said researcher Paula Krakowiak, a study co-author and scientist at the University of California, Davis.Previous research has linked obesity during pregnancy with stillbirths, preterm births and some birth...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-04-08/autism-may-be-linked-obesity-during-pregn

...found, this would represent an extraordinary discovery," said David Whitley, former chief archaeologist at University of California, Los Angeles. "In science, extraordinary discoveries require extraordinary evidence."The traditional method...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-06-14-4
We really must do lunch! Safely...

...it safe is just keeping it cold," says Christine Bruhn, director of the Center for Consumer Research at the University of California, Davis.Safe lunches begin with safe shopping and home storage. In other words, perishable foods intended...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/food/2011-07-20/we-really-must-do-lunch-sa
Food
In Washington, it's always the 11th hour

...stress is useful, but it also strains focus and can be counterproductive. Psychologist Wendy Berry Mendes of the University of California at San Francisco and colleagues at Harvard have shown that "bad" stress can cause the human heart to respond...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2011-07-29/washington-it%E2%80%99s-always-11
Opinion

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