Bear Minds

By Bear Minds

Bear Minds is UC Berkeley's premiere podcast network for just about anything you can imagine. Featuring student orgs, non-profits, startups, researchers, alumni and more.... more

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The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.

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September 27, 2017 Office Hours ep. 2 - How We Can End the Litter Problem with Data
Have you ever wondered how much of the litter that's created in your neighborhood comes from the Taco Bell a few blocks from your home? Or how many cigarette butts are dumped on your block alone? Find out how actionable insights through data collection around litter are helping Litterati clean up the world.
Jeff Kirschner and team once ran an experiment at a school to see exactly what type of litter was the most commonly generated. The data showed that most of the litter came from the school cafeteria's plastic straw wrapper - students could now demand specific action against a specific source of litter.
Through the medium of a mobile app, Litterati has been able to scale this sort of experimenting and data collection around litter to find actionable insights to combat the incessant litter generation problem of our generation.
Find out how this data is allowing Litterati to influence large corporations, inspire grassroots movements, and other efforts to clean up the world.
We encourage you to join the community of environmentally conscious citizens by downloading the app at https://litterati.org/
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September 26, 2017 Office Hours ep. 1 - End of Life Options Legislation
In this pilot episode of The Office Hours Podcast, we speak with Cal alumnus, Dan Diaz, about his advocacy for legislation supporting dignified end of life options for the terminally ill.
He has recently passed this legislation in the state of California, and is currently at work to pass this in D.C. , Colorado, and more states across the nation.
In the podcast, we spoke about:
How Dan and Brittany met at Cal.
Honeymooning in Patagonia.
False narratives about medical aid in dying created by the opposition.
Taking back control from a tumor.
The need to go to Oregon to receive consultation.
Growing up Catholic and being an alter boy.
44 other states that still do not have favorable legislation toward medical aid in dying.
If you found this episode of the podcast interesting, informative, or enlightening, please show support to Dan's cause by visiting the following sites:
http://thebrittanyfund.org/
https://www.facebook.com/dandiazbrittanymaynard/
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September 09, 2017 Retired Navy SEAL Shares Lessons In Life And Leadership | Bear Minds ep. 13
Ryan Evans is a retired Navy SEAL and Berkeley Haas Alum. He received his MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 2015, and is currently pursuing his passion in the outdoor industry as a Senior Project Manager at The North Face.
We talk about lessons he's learned in leadership from being in the SEAL teams, as well as some other things like:
* Stories of training under Jocko Willink, who now hosts his on podcast, the Jocko Podcast.
* Tyranny of Terrain
* Quick decision making strategies
* Preparation versus Planning
* and more.
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30min
September 03, 2017 Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality - featuring Mozilla Director Chris Riley | Bear Minds ep. 12

Chris Riley is the Director of Public Policy at Mozilla. Petition for maintaining a neutral net: https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/ne... Mozilla has long been the beacon of hope for maintaining an open, neutral net. Now, with yet another push to overturn net neutrality and give Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the legal right to limit your access to certain websites at their own discretion (if you pay more, you can access more), we felt this was a good time to bring in Emily, a Cal Mozintern, to learn more about this battle to maintain our liberty...And we're not even being overdramatic here. Watch the video to find out why. If you enjoy what we do, don't forget to support us by hitting that LIKE button and if you want to be notified when we put out another episode, clickity-clack that big red SUBSCRIBE button too. You won't regret it. https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/ne...
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August 08, 2017 How Blockchain@Berkeley Went From Almost Dying to Featuring on HackerNews | BearMinds ep. 11
Fun fact: Max built and sold cryptocurrency mining rigs while still in high school, and Alex attends anarcho-capitalist meetings in Acapualca, New Mexico every year.
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August 03, 2017 How Do Kids Learn? with Mariel Goddu | Bear Minds ep. 10
As a post second year grad student in developmental psychology at Cal, Mariel has spent a significant amount of time now preoccupied with how kids' minds work. Specifically, how do they learn?
Among a whole slew of other things, she plays visual association "games" - so to speak - with toddlers to assess how they reason. 20:30
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----- Contents -----
00:00 - East Coast
3:35 - Where Do New Ideas Come From?
4:10 - How Did She Get Into Research?
8:30 - What Do We Know About Kids' Learning? / What Does She Do As a Grad Student?
14:00 - First Time For Everything! / Norm Violation / Stinging Nettles and Apples
16:45 - Kids' Learning vs. Adult Learning?
19:53 - How Does New Stuff Enter Into Our Perceived Realm of Possibilities?
21:30 - Small Apple, Magic Wand, Big Apple
32:05 - Lots to See in Berkeley
36:00 - Joint Media Engagements with Kids and Grown Ups
37:00 - Society, Culture and Learning
40:00 - What Do You Believe That Other People Think Is Insane?
----- Some Publications ----
Overoptimism about future knowledge: Early arrogance? - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301906454_Overoptimism_about_future_knowledge_Early_arrogance
Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274312901_Searching_for_Explanations_How_the_Internet_Inflates_Estimates_of_Internal_Knowledge
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July 06, 2017 Fake News is Profitable News! with BridgeUSA | Bear Minds ep. 9
We all know by now that media is incentivized through ratings not by truth or legitimacy. Higher ratings equals higher competition for advertisements equals higher net margins equals higher profits. But just how stuck are we in this system?
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46min
July 03, 2017 A Story of A Delayed Presidential Election in D.R. Congo | Bear Minds Ep. #8
Congo just had an election delayed about 6 months ago, and recently the most prominent opposition party leader has passed away from old age. We speak to an international student from D.R. Congo here at Cal to see what he thinks about what's going on in his home country.
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50min
April 25, 2017 Starting a Legitimate Medical Marijuana Collective is Much More Than "Slinging Dope"
In the spirit of 420, I had a raw, candid chat with the founders of the Green Team Cannabis Collective. Limited Time Offers: http://whatarewesmoking.com/ Carl, Carlos, and Max tell us about the early days of Green Team, being scrappy and keeping the business alive, and growing the business into the family it is now. Voted the #1 medical marijuana delivery service on Weedmaps and the Daily Cal, Green Team has consistently provided quality cannabis products to for their many patients around the East Bay. GreenTeam Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxeMYKt0zk
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40min
April 25, 2017 This Is A Whole New Take on "Clearing the Swamp" of UC Berkeley's ASUC
If you didn't know, the Pirate Party movement, decentralized as it is, has done well for itself internationally: wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party Vote Pirate Party - Sunny Aggarwal, Jon Allen, and Alexandra Tran - for 1, 2, and 3, respectively, for ASUC Senate. Share this with your friends. Here's why: Sunny has worked in several ASUC offices, both exec and senate, and knows the bureaucratic mess that needs to be cleaned up - while Alexandra has had plenty of experience in US politics and wants to steer the ASUC as far away as possible from THAT mess. And Jon, a purple heart veteran, has experienced more shit than we could imagine, and his killer work ethic is something we aspire to. Pirate Party is made up of all founders and hackers and entrepreneurs, and have perspectives and capabilities in excess of any career politician that I know of.
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FAQs about Bear Minds:

How many episodes does Bear Minds have?

The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.