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Little Blue Penguins Find New Home at Birch Aquarium
They are known for their big personalities and rather small stature. Standing less than 12 inches tall and weighing around 2 pounds, Little Blue Penguins are the smallest species of the flightless bird. While the population of Little Blues is considered stable in most locations, declines have been observed in some areas. While in the […]
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Bringing Dinosaurs to Life: How a Best-Selling Novel Became a Major Motion Picture
Screenwriter David Koepp had only six motion picture screenplay credits to his name when he was tapped to help best-selling author Michael Crichton adapt one of his novels for the silver screen. Even as a novel, “Jurassic Park” was ahead of its time – using futuristic DNA cloning techniques to return dinosaurs to the planet […]
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How Infant Microbiomes Influence Childhood Health
Our bodies are dynamic ecosystems housing trillions of microbes that, while invisible to the naked eye, play a critical role in shaping human health. Scientists are beginning to understand the superpowers the microbiome holds and the affect they have on our longterm health – beginning from infancy. In this program, Susan Lynch, Ph.D., director of […]
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Trailblazing Women Share Inspiring Stories as Part of Women in Leadership 2022
“Why women?” asks journalist and author Lynn Scherr at the outset of this year’s Women in Leadership panel. It’s a question that not only gives insight into the minds of the panelists but breaks open the issues presented to all women – politically and personally – in the year 2022. Labor leader and activist Dolores […]
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Smart Money: Education Investments in Adolescents Earn Higher Returns
Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of education economics, says investing in education in early adolescents can have profound impacts on the continuation of learning through teenage years and beyond. More education leads to social cohesion, advancing economic opportunity, reducing inequality and decreasing […]
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A New Diet to Feed 10 Billion People and Help Save the Planet
Human activities are responsible for most of the increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere over the last 150 years. While the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat and transportation, there is one other contributing factor… emissions from livestock such as cattle, agricultural soils and rice production. […]
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How a Cross-border Existence Influenced Journalist and Writer Jean Guerrero
Journalist Jean Guerrero grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border. Her Puerto Rican mother put herself through medical school and met Guerrero’s Mexican father on her first day in San Diego. Guerrero says she’s always been drawn to cross-border issues having traveled back and forth across the border to Tijuana with her dad. However, Guerrero was […]
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Artificial Intelligence with Kate Crawford
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the capture of digital material for machine learning production. Kate Crawford, author of “Atlas AI: Power, Politics and Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence,” is a leading international scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. In two new programs, Crawford explores the ways training […]
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UCTV Celebrates its One Millionth YouTube Subscriber
At the start of 2022, UCTV reached a major milestone with the acquisition of our one-millionth YouTube subscriber. For weeks and then days (and then hours) beforehand, we eagerly checked our channel’s latest subscriber numbers, waiting for the day to finally arrive. Then, on January 23rd, we made it. After contributing educational content to the […]
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The Uplifting Performance of “Still We Rise”
When UC San Diego music professor emeritus Cecil Lytle plays the piano, you can’t help but pay attention. His commanding figure is a sharp contrast to his elegance and poise. He’s been called a renaissance man for his innovative work, which is on display in his latest concert “Still We Rise.” The program features music […]