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How Curiosity Can Shape an Education—and a Life
You do not have to know exactly where your education will lead before you begin. Artist and UC San Diego visual arts professor Janelle Iglesias entered college expecting to study medicine or public health. Instead, a job mixing glazes and loading kilns introduced her to ceramics—and helped open an entirely different path. Iglesias grew up…
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The Anatomy of a Political Decision
What makes a political decision consequential? In this program, Sir Christopher Clark, Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, approaches that question by looking beyond individual leaders to the systems, institutions, and pressures that shape their choices. Clark begins with an 1887 letter from Emperor Wilhelm I to Otto von Bismarck, marking the 25th…
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Why Uncertainty Can Be a Superpower
Uncertainty is uncomfortable. It can make us anxious, impatient, and eager for answers—even when clear answers do not yet exist. In this program, journalist Simone Stolzoff, author of How to Not Know, argues that learning to live with uncertainty can open the door to creativity, adaptability, and deeper connection. Stolzoff describes “uncertainty tolerance” as the…
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From Tool to Teammate: How AI Is Changing Business
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses use data, make decisions, and organize work. In this program, UC San Diego Rady School of Management’s Thomas Beyer traces that shift through several stages of business analytics, from the early push to digitize and collect as much data as possible to today’s growing interest in more proactive AI…
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UCTV’s Most-Watched Programs of 2025
This year, audiences turned to UCTV for thoughtful conversations that helped make sense of a rapidly changing world—from advances in stem cell research, health, and aging to the social, biological, and political forces shaping our lives. Our most popular programs of 2025 reflect a strong appetite for evidence-based insight, interdisciplinary thinking, and ideas that connect…
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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…