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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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On Our Mind – Alzheimer’s Disease
An estimated 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease and that number will continue to rise. The impact will be felt not just in the homes of the diagnosed but by their caregivers, their loved ones, their communities, and beyond. The Brain Channel’s flagship series On Our Mind is endeavoring in the next few months 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 […]
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Turbo Charge Your Job Hunt
Because he loves his job as an employment industry expert, few people think more about work than Phil Blair. Beginning in 1977, he has built Manpower San Diego into the largest Manpower franchise in the U.S. It is San Diego’s fourth largest for-profit employer providing approximately 2,500 jobs daily. Watch Job Won and learn strategies […]
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Goldman Talkers
Trained in fiction with an MFA in creative writing, a young Ben Rhodes soon found himself writing foreign policy speeches — first, for a think tank and then later, for the President of the United States. He shares his colorful journey from graduate school to the White House with the 2014 graduates of the Goldman […]