In a rare public interview, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau talks to the Guardian (of London, not San Francisco) about his blue collar background, the campus’ conservative streak, the future of the tech industry in California, and his favorite movies (”films with existential angst”).

It’s definitely worth a read, and you do get a sense of Birgeneau’s more “scientific” side.

Cal Patriot wants to give him a Nobel Prize, but not for the reasons you might suspect.