Josh Braun

June 26, 2002

Red Tape: The Rest of You Can Get Lost; I’m Staying Right Here

By Josh Braun

I'm not moving this summer. There. I've lost half of your sympathies. All of my stuff will remain in place, collecting Isla Vista dust for another year.

June 6, 2002

Red Tape: Productivity Is Nothing but a Twelve-Letter Word

By Josh Braun

It's the last day before finals and you're reading this because you don't want to study. Yeah, I know how it works. You'll go home in a few minutes and play video games or make yourself lunch. You'll do your laundry or m...

June 6, 2002

UC Approves New National Lab Director

By Josh Braun

UC President Richard Atkinson appointed Michael Anastasio the next director of the lab on Tuesday. The regents approved the appointment and Anastasio, formerly Livermore's deputy director for strategic operations, will t...

May 28, 2002

UC Admits Cloning Research

By Josh Braun

The bulk of the debate over human cloning has, to date, taken place on the East Coast in places like Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. As of Friday, California is taking its turn.

May 24, 2002

UCSB Breaks Ground for New Building

By Josh Braun

Marine Science Building will serve as a hub for all 14 departments and additional research units involved in marine science research.

May 20, 2002

Red Tape: A Columnist and His Boat

By Josh Braun

I love boats. Unfortunately, I'm not a sailor, but I have the rest of my life to rectify the situation.

May 13, 2002

The Red Tape: Student Vocabularies are Shit

By Josh Braun

As a general rule, I try not to cuss - not in my speech, not in my columns. Am I perfect on either count? Fuck no. But today, I'll make an exception to prove a point.

May 8, 2002

The Red Tape: Bioethics Research Blues

By Josh Braun

Researching bioethics issues is fascinating. It's my job. It's a pain in the ass. The problem is that few people in the news media appear to have any idea what they are actually talking about.

May 3, 2002

Physicist Withdraws Candidacy for Lab Director

By Josh Braun

UC President Richard Atkinson and the regents postponed appointing a new director for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after United States Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham made inquiries regarding the profes...

April 26, 2002

Red Tape: Ours Is Also to Wonder, Not Just to Do and Die

By Josh Braun

Why? No one has all the answers, so I've decided to write on a question instead. For Descartes, the first dualist, the mind and the body became separate entities: "I think, therefore I am." Why?

April 24, 2002

Elie Weisel Reflects on Hope, Tragedy

By Josh Braun

Wiesel, the holocaust survivor, author and 1986 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, spoke before a crowd of 2,000 students and community members in Arlington Theater on Wednesday night.

April 23, 2002

The Red Tape: Academic Larvae Squirm Through All Possible Futures

By Josh Braun

After studying science journalism for three years or so, I have managed to conduct something of an anthropological survey of the scientific profession.

April 22, 2002

Eugenics Revisited

By Josh Braun

Genetically Engineering Children is a Topic Most People Find Disturbing. Gregory Stock Wrote the Book on It.

April 22, 2002

Science and Technology Primer: Eugenics and Modern Reproductive Technologies

By Josh Braun

A Short Guide to Reproductive Bioethics.

April 9, 2002

Heading for the Light

By Josh Braun

Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Stanley Electric, Sharp, Sanyo, Sumitomo, Toshiba, Toyoda Gosei, NEC, Sony, Philips and two dozen universities spent a total of $1 billion trying to catch up to Shuji Nakamura throughout the 1990s...

April 8, 2002

The Red Tape: Big Bad Websites Can’t Give Cookies to Children – Can I Be 12?

By Josh Braun

I am about to turn 12 - online anyway. You see, although I'm 21 years old at the moment, I stumbled across some information about online marketing that has put me in touch with my inner child.