High-speed video shows how charged insects (a bee, a fly and an aphid) falling toward a spider web deform the silk by electrostatic attraction before they make contact. The final frames shows how a silk thread rapidly deforms to stick to a charged water droplet. By Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez, UC Berkeley. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/07/04/spider-webs-more-effective-at-ensnaring-charged-insects

Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals. The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various...

Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy

Berkeley hosts the West Coast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, a three-day event (January 17-19, 2014), designed to encourage attendees to pursue careers in a field where women are still a minority. Talks, panel discussions, lab tours and a career fair will be held the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The conference, which will draw nearly 170 women from the western U.S. who major in physics and related fields, is one of eight concurrent regional conferences sponsored by the American Physical Society that attract about 1,000 women nationwide. Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian & Phil Ebiner http://www.berkeley.edu http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley http://twitter.com/UCBerkeley