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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicUniversity of California

Topic: University of California

Old-fashioned BP cuffs as effective as Bluetooth devices to monitor hypertension, shows US trial

Report, published in JAMA Internal Medicine Monday, says researchers 'found no difference' in BP reduction between group using traditional BP instruments & the one with smart devices.

New implant helps speech-impaired man ‘talk’, by changing brain signals into words on screen

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and partly funded by Facebook’s Sponsored Academic Research Agreement, was done by researchers at the University of California.

How a study group brought Kamala Harris’ parents together amid activism, Black nationalism

Kamala Harris' parents Shyamala Gopalan & Donald Harris met at a Black study group in UC Berkeley that fostered their interest in civil rights movement & activism, according to an NYT report.

California University, where Covid research is on, paid $1.14 million ransom to hackers

The intrusion was detected as recently as 1 June. The university confirmed that the attack didn’t impede its Covid-19 work.

Hackers target University of California leading Covid antibody testing & clinical trials

In a blog on the darkweb, NetWalker hackers claimed they successfully carried out a ransomware attack on the university, and posted screenshots of the files accessed.

Scientists write to US universities for inviting ‘anti-science’ activist Vandana Shiva

The open letters to Stanford and University of California raise concern about Vandana Shiva's use of 'anti-scientific rhetoric to support unethical positions'.

Oh no! Climate change will threaten beer supply, double prices

A study has shown that the price surge likely to be caused by climate change would have the worst impact in countries that drink the most beer. 

What stood out in Rahul Gandhi’s speech in UC Berkeley

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi did manage to make some new points in his speech at UC Berkeley.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.