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The Tragedy of Beliefs and Their Reality
In her work monitoring populations of marine mammals for NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, Barbara Taylor has had to deal with sad endings. First, she was involved in the determination that the Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, existed no more. And now she and those she toils with are faced with the reality that the…
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Coming in November – Armageddon, Apocalypse, or Rapture?
“Our democracy today is poisoned by so many lies that truth is now stranger than fiction – just not as popular,” said Bill Moyers to a packed audience at UC Santa Barbara. Bringing his expertise, experience and wisdom longtime journalist Bill Moyers looks at the November election and asks what has happened to our so-called…
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Oliver Stone on Conversations with History
Years ago (I won’t say how many) I was sitting on the steps of a Cinemobile truck parked near a film set (I won’t say which one), practicing “hurry up and wait.” I was chatting with a grip, a veteran of countless productions with decades in the business. At one point he sighed, looked off…
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Entrepreneurial Insights from the Pros
UC Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program taps into its extensive network of business professional and entrepreneurs who have distinguished themselves as experts in their fields — and you get a front row seat. This month several new programs are being added to the already extensive archive. You’ll definitely want to check out these recently added…
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All Aboard for STEAM in San Diego!
Oh, to be a student in the San Diego Unified School District and get to spend a day aboard the USS Midway. STEAM leaders from around the region welcomed some 300 middle and high-schoolers to the ship and fired them up to consider careers in designing satellites, electric cars, airplanes, algae-fueled motorcycles and even back-friendly…
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Get the Latest on Climate Change Research and Solutions
New programs on The UC Climate Solutions Channel explore what climate change is, the science behind what we know, and what we can do about it. The Natural Climate Solutions Symposium, from UC Davis Enjoy highlights from this lively and informative symposium on natural climate solutions hosted by the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and…
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Simon Says: Teach the Teachers!
It’s one thing to know a lot about your field of expertise, but as Beth Simon says, teaching others about what you know is not easy. Very few professors are actually taught how to be teachers, a failing that Beth identified early in her career in computer science. And as she tells Karen Flammer in…
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A Molecular Roadmap to Global Health
Immunologist Erica Ollman Saphire, an expert who has worked on the front lines in west Africa battling viral hemorrhagic fevers, gives a fascinating and sometimes frightening on-the-ground account of how something called the VIC global consortium developed the only effective strategy to fight the Ebola virus. The VIC or Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Immunotherapeutic Consortium, was…
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Climate: The More Things Change…
The eminent climate scientist Richard Somerville of Scripps Institution of Oceanography first appeared on our airwaves in the mid-90’s, sounding the alarm about global warming in the documentary, Change on Planet Earth. Though he (and we) have matured since then, his message remains the same. The science confirming climate change is sound and our actions…
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Meeting Flicka (The Incomparable Frederica von Stade)
A confession: I’ve been interviewing celebrities of varying renown or infamy for more years than I care to admit, and thought that I’d long ago ceased to be star-struck. Yet, when I first met celebrated mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade (known affectionately by family, colleagues and fans as “Flicka,”), I alternately gushed and stammered like a…
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