It is my experience that the US administration can be extremely competent under a good leadership, a point made by Michael Lewis<\/strong> (another Berkeley resident) in his book The Fifth Risk, where he was trying to explain how we might survive a deficient head of government<\/a> (it seems he’s been right on that one, though we lost half a million people to a pandemic that could probably have been contained much better.<\/p>\n Building on 4th Street, Berkeley<\/p>\n<\/div> In terms of science, the outlook is pretty good, with people. It also happens that Frances Arnold<\/strong>, Nobel prize laureate and Berkeley alumni, will be part of the government<\/a>, will help Eric Lander whose role at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy has been elevated to cabinet role. There’s also the Endless Frontier<\/a> bill that would double the funding of science in the US and likely to pass thanks to bipartisan support.<\/p>It’s quite a home run year for Berkeley women, with Jennifer Doudna<\/strong> who was awarded a Nobel prize for her discovery of CRISPR\/Cas9.<\/p>More:<\/p>Michael Lewis: \u2018Trump is like a psycho dad to America\u2019<\/a> \u2013 The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s been quite a shift in the US government, and I am thrilled to see that Berkeley, my town of adoption, is very well represented in the new administration. It shouldn’t be a surprise given a premier public university is obviously a great pool of talent, but there is something about the place and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-mood","category-resources","category-science-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7613-1024x768.jpg\")
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