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Jeff Liang

How books helped make computers mainstream

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Matt Perko
UC Santa Barbara English assistant professor Jim Casey is leading a project to recover and share 19th-century African American newspapers using artificial intelligence.

$750,000 Schmidt Sciences grant uses AI to transform Black press archives
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A two-minute fix for procrastination
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Sherrilyn Ifill

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures
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Paul Leonardi

In ‘Digital Exhaustion,’ Paul Leonardi shares how to make technology work for you
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Fareed Zakaria makes sense of a changing world in Arts & Lectures talk
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Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005
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Dana Kornberg
Workers in India's waste economy

Race and caste capitalism: Who gets access to status and wealth?
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Alcohol marketing ushered in a golden age of drinking in America
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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s

Seeking inner peace, finding moral rot
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”

Improve your life by embracing everyday, even mundane, conversations? Research says yes.
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies

How feminist witch studies redefine magic and power
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Matt Perko
Michelle Petty, February 2024

Black linguistic justice wins recognition in academia
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