{"id":313614,"date":"2026-05-13T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313614\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:40:22","slug":"a-nobel-laureate-thinks-this-hit-uc-berkeley-class-could-help-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313614\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nobel laureate thinks this hit UC Berkeley class could help change the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The class has an unsexy name\u00a0\u2014 \u201cSense and Sensibility and Science\u201d\u00a0\u2014 and many UC Berkeley undergraduates who sign up for it say the appeal is that it knocks off more than one of their graduation requirements.<\/p>\n<p>But it may end up being the most important course they take, some students say, and many remember it years later as their favorite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSense and Sensibility and Science\u201d was started 13 years ago by a team of UC Berkeley professors, including a Nobel laureate, who wanted to give students the tools to combat misinformation and improve their communication skills in an increasingly confusing world. They did not expect the class to become so popular\u00a0\u2014 it\u2019s now taught at a handful of other schools including Harvard and the University of Chicago\u00a0\u2014 or for their lessons to become even more urgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The class has an unsexy name\u00a0\u2014 \u201cSense and Sensibility and Science\u201d\u00a0\u2014 and many UC Berkeley undergraduates who sign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-313614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}