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The Wire: Berkeley teen swims from Ireland to Scotland; a tour of Richard Pryor's Berkeley 23%
By Berkeleyside Staff16%
7/17/2026, 12:15:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Unattributed Quote, and Recency Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 18.3% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 288 faulty-reasoning hits from 278 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 36.7% and a BS Rank of 23% (14,093 of 18,228 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 77.30% of the article peer group.
Berkeley teen Maya Merhige swam 21.4 miles from Ireland to Scotland, completing five channel swims in the Oceans Seven marathon challenge.
(KTVU)
A photo spread of student protesters in the Berkeley High yearbook is under investigation by the district's office of civil rights because it includes a photo of a student holding a sign reading “Oct. 7th was a response, not an attack.”
Nearly 300 parents, alumni and community members signed a letter arguing that the image in the student-created yearbook creates a hostile and exclusionary environment for Jewish students.
(J.
Weekly)
The late comedian Richard Pryor’s Pryor’s daughter recently gave a video tour of her father’s Berkeley haunts.
(Instagram)
Omar Yaghi, a Nobel-winning UC Berkeley chemist, is moving to China to lead an AI institute.
(NY Times)
Berkeley Rep’s “The Lunchbox” is now the third highest-grossing show in the company's 58-year history — and has grossed more in a single week, $530,254, than any other show.
(SF Chronicle)
BART is installing LED lighting upgrades at nine East Bay stations, including Downtown Berkeley and North Berkeley.
(Daily Cal)
A list of 25 breakthroughs by UC Berkeley researchers, leaders and alums.
(Berkeley News)
A federal judge has denied a UC Berkeley law professor's request to force ICE to quickly release 14 years of deportation and detention data.
(Courthouse News)
Terrence Walker Nash Sr. was found dead on the UC Berkeley campus in April.
Who was he?
(Berkeley Scanner)
Recordings of the three concerts at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theatre celebrating the Grateful Dead's 20th anniversary are being prepared for their first official release.
(SF Chronicle)
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