If you want to resolve international conflict, you must begin by understanding everyone’s needs. Vice Admiral Charles W. Martoglio, US Navy (ret), served as one of our military’s leading strategists, planners, and politico-military advisors. According to Martoglio, “all nations act in their own self interests, all the time, without exception – even the United States.”…

UC San Diego Jazz Camp is a five-day summer program that provides small group and individual instruction to intermediate and advanced jazz musicians, ages 14 through adult. Classes and workshops explore genres and techniques within the broader jazz idiom, including swing, be-bop, jazz-blues, cool jazz, fusion, and improvisation. The all-star faculty is comprised of more…

Some of the world’s leading thinkers in health and wellbeing gathered for three days in Los Angeles last month, exploring the latest research on the convergence of traditional and holistic medicine. Check out the highlights here, as experts gathered by the Chopra Foundation present on brain health, epigenetics, the microbiome, creativity, and new technologies developed…

By putting compassion ahead of doctrinal enforcement, Pope Francis I promises nothing less than a wholesale transformation of the Roman Catholic Church. But, for all of the hope and excitement that he has inspired, is this anything more than just a passing phase? (Francis, after all, will be 80 years old in December. He also…

In a country that’s not only becoming less white, but also more urban and secular, does the Republican Party have a future? On this month’s edition of Up Next: Perspectives on the Future of Everything, host Marty Lasden examines the GOP’s prospects with history professor Donald T. Critchlow, author of Future Right: Forging a New…

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of developmental disorders that has a wide range of impacts. William Mobley, PhD interviews clinicians and researchers to learn more about what we know and what we have yet to learn about autism. Stay tuned for more installments in this series from the Brain Channel. Neurons in a…

It’s been a grueling campaign season but we are finally heading into the last days of this remarkable and highly contentious 2016 election. We’ve careened from record crowds in the primaries, to seemingly daily gaffes and scandals, to the pageantry of the conventions and the spectacle of the debates. Now, the vote count is about…

Mindfulness meditation originated in Buddhist tradition, but the secular application of mindfulness practices in the United States has grown exponentially in recent years. Clinicians and researchers have conducted hundreds of studies assessing the physical and mental health benefits of mindfulness — the practice of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of one’s thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and…

Ari Shapiro, co-host of NPR’ All Things Considered, charmed a book-loving audience at UC San Diego with tales of how his English classes at Yale set him up for a fascinating career of storytelling in journalism. He recounts his early days as an intern at NPR and traces the steps that took him from Washington…