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Grant Cooke: Our Age of Discovery threatened by new demagogue

June 23, 2016 by Grant Cooke 12 Comments

Coming from a cloistered Central Valley farm town to the Bay Area of the late 1960s was a transformational experience—a personal age of discovery. At UC Berkeley, I realized that it wasn’t just me, but in fact, the world stood at the beginnings of a remarkable new era of discovery. A few decades later, we […]

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