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Take UCTV with You – Thousands of Downloadable Video & Audio Podcasts
Did you know that in addition to watching UCTV programs on your television and your computer you can also take them with you in the form of a video or audio podcast? If you’ve ever wished you weren’t stuck with just the radio on your commute or wanted to break up a long flight with…
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CARTA: Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Public Health
All living things are the product of evolutionary processes. Since the goals of the health sciences are to prevent disease, maintain health and treat illnesses, it follows that an understanding of evolutionary mechanisms and processes in the context of human origins is of vital importance. New applications of evolutionary biology to medicine and health are…
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The Young Person’s Guide to Beethoven’s Fifth
Arts and music education in public schools has suffered cutbacks in recent years, due to tightening budgets and shifting priorities. In response many community organizations have rallied to the cause, inaugurating or expanding programs designed to engender an interest in the arts in young audiences, both as participants and as future audience members. One such…
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Thomas Jefferson’s Contradictions
Pulitzer-prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed is one of the foremost scholars on Thomas Jefferson. She recently visited UC Berkeley from Harvard Law School to discuss the contradictions that define the third President of the Unites States. He had a vision for the United States of America but race and slavery complicated his views on what kind…
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What’s Next for Washington? Fact-based Research and Analysis from UC San Diego
Just days after the November election and before the January inauguration of a new president, prominent UC San Diego faculty took stock of what’s at stake for the incoming administration and the country it will lead. Watch these well-respected experts offer insight on domestic and foreign politics as President Obama leaves the White House and…
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Endangered Abalone
The populations of all abalone along the California coast have plummeted in the last century. Within the next decade, when the last remaining adult White Abalone in the wild die, that species will be gone from our waters forever. In a last ditch effort to save the species, Scripps Institution’s Jennifer Hofmeister has been enlisted…
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GRIT Talks Present Ground-Breaking Research from UCSB
Explore ground-breaking research from some of the best minds among the UC Santa Barbara community in new presentations from the GRIT Talks series (GRIT = Groundbreaking Research/Innovative Technology). What Gut Microbes Can Teach Us About Sustainability Can Acetaminophen Influence How We Perceive Other People? Identity, Privacy and Security in the World of Mobile Devices Near…
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America, Europe, NATO… and Russia
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.”…
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Jazz Camp
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…
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Sages & Scientists
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…