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About Berkeley

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.

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There was this research center in Berkeley which had 30 hyenas living in it. They were being studied by brilliant research scientists.

from 464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-03 at 00:49:08 · read transcript

Other times Berkeley came up

  1. It's Hymenium Lush, lining the walls with a deep piled plush, gradually merging at entrances wide into the pattern of surface outside. American species, we have not a few, and both those in Europe, we likewise have two. For example, H. Tulasne of Old World Fame by mycologist Berkeley, given its name, its presence in US regarded as myth, until here discovered by Alex H. Smith. Very nice. That's great.

    393: No Such Thing As Charlie And The Sperm Factory, 2021-10-01 · listen

  2. Here comes Hidno Trier, it's Hymenium Lush, lining the walls with a deep piled plush, gradually merging at entrances wide, into the pattern of surface outside. American species, we have not a few, and both those in Europe we likewise have two. For example, H.2 Las Nei of Old World Fame by mycologist Berkeley given its name. Its presence in US regarded as myth until here discovered by Alex H.

    No Such Thing As Charlie And The Sperm Factory, 2021-10-01 · listen

  3. Ones The ones that were animated in the Lion King They were based on some real hyenas I mean obviously they're based on hyenas But in fact we know specifically which hyenas they were based on And these are the hyenas from Berkeley, California And such classic Hollywood I was gonna say do you think they go back to their pack And they're sort of so, oh well I'm the famous hyena But if they're already living in Berkeley then They're already completely out of.

    No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-02 · listen

  4. We haven't helped that already. This is a university, researchers at a university in California, Berkeley, and they were studying why shoelaces untie themselves. Surprisingly, it's been a massive mystery to science for a very long time, so they dedicated their time to working that out, and it's interesting, it's all to do with the way that we slam our feet to the ground, and it plays with- Well, I didn't think it would be to do with how we clap our hands.

    162: No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces, 2017-04-28 · listen

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