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Sharks Without Borders: A Binational Effort to Study and Conserve Threatened Shark Species
Sharks have been around, essentially unchanged, for 400 million years. Their size, power, and massive jaws fill us with terror and fascination. And even though sharks kill fewer people than dogs each year, media coverage and movies of shark attacks have portrayed them as insatiable killing machines. They may rule the ocean, but sharks are […]
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Barry Scheck on Justice, the Innocence Project, and OJ Simpson
As co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck has dedicated his career to exonerating the wrongfully convicted by using DNA evidence as well as reforming the criminal justice system as a whole. He also had a front row seat to one of the biggest trials of our time as a member of OJ Simpson’s defense […]
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Eating For Health (and Pleasure): The UCSF Guide to Good Nutrition
Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling good, having more energy, and sustaining your mental disposition. If you feel overwhelmed by all the conflicting nutrition and diet advice out there, you are not alone. UCSF Professor of Medicine Dr. Robert […]
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Ananya Roy Discusses Poverty
A billion people live under conditions of extreme poverty. UC Berkeley Professor Ananya Roy calls them the “bottom billion,” but she sees hope. As more people become aware about the nature of poverty, the bottom billion are starting to benefit from poverty alleviation efforts and market forces reaching them. While inequality is at an historic […]
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Do 4.2 Million Children Really Need Ritalin?
In 2011, Dr. Sanford Newmark posed an important question: Do 2.5 million children really need Ritalin? Nearly 3 years later, the number of children taking Ritalin has risen to 4.2 million. Dr. Newmark, head of the Pediatric Integrative Neurodevelopmental Program at UCSF, specializes in the integrative and holistic treatment of children with autism and ADHD. […]
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Playing Solomon: How Much is a Life Really Worth?
Placing a dollar amount on a life or an injury may sound heartless, but such is the work of Kenneth Feinberg, and very few of us envy him the job. By the time an organization calls him, the tragedy itself is oftentimes long over with. Its victims, however, remain. And it is Feinberg’s job to […]
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Dirty Sexy Policy
Dirty Sexy Policy brings together prominent scholars, attorneys, activists, regulators, and journalists to explore current challenges facing media. Participants and speakers engage in lively discussion and debate through a moderated Q&A to explore content regulation of obscenity and indecency, structural regulation of broadband technologies, and the broader stakes that citizens and policy critics share. Tune […]
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Arrr – Here be pirates!
“To err is human, to arr is pirate.” This quote (a personal favorite) cleverly illustrates one of many myths Hollywood has popularized about pirates: that all pirates talked like… well, like pirates. You know, “shiver me timbers,” “blow me down” and the like. Other popular myths include: – All pirates were missing body parts. – […]
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Why are we violent?
As CARTA co-director Ajit Varki so aptly put it in his concluding remarks, “It was an intellectually stimulating and fascinating but deeply disturbing symposium.” From interactions in lions and our hominid cousins the chimpanzees, to our Pleistocene ancestors and early human cultures to modern society, CARTA gathered scientists across the spectrum from neurophysiology to sociology […]
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Let’s Talk About Movies
New programs in our Film & Television Collection will take you behind the scenes of the movie-making process. Watch the latest from the Carsey-Wolf Center: “Brave Miss World” Discussion A look at the new documentary by Cecilia Peck, “Brave Miss World” that follows Miss Israel Linor Abargil from her rape, to her Miss World win […]