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May Enews and Highlights
Sign up to receive UCTV News and Highlights by e-mail: FEATURED THIS MONTH Violence Has Declined Violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and we may be living in the most peaceful era in our species existence. Steven Pinker explains the trends by showing how changing historical circumstances have engaged different components […]
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The Essential Elements of The Good Life
The Greek philosopher Aristotle distinguished between “mere life” and “the good life.” The Good Life involves the principles that express our highest ideals: life as we would like to live it. Not food as nourishment, but food as delight and pleasure; not shelter as mere protection from the elements, but shelter as artistic expression. Benjamin […]
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Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing In Human Evolution
They are the most precious product of humanity. Like all living things, they are why, at the most fundamental level, we exist — offspring. They are why a few thousand individuals spread out of Africa so many eons ago, and why we eventually populated every habitable environment on the planet. So this time around, CARTA, […]
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Eastward Bound: Home with Nathan East
The stage is set for the performance to come. Drums, congas, electric guitars, grand piano… and bass guitar. Nathan East walks out alone, picks up his instrument, and tenderly plays his signature bass rendition of America the Beautiful. Afterwards, with fingers snapping, UC San Diego Music faculty, alumni, and other talented musicians join him for […]
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Global Health: Three Most Promising Areas for Innovation, with Lord Nigel Crisp
The “global” in global health refers to the scope of the world’s health problems, not just their location. These problems vary widely and include issues such as epidemic infectious diseases, HIV/AIDs, nutrition, chronic disease and lack of technology and healthcare professionals, among many other issues. Lord Nigel Crisp, Member, House of Lords UK, is an […]
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Siddhartha Mukherjee – Overthrowing the Emperor of All Maladies
Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer. One in every three women and one out of every two men in America alone will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. “Statistically, cancer isn’t someone else’s problem, it’s all of our problem,” said Pulitzer-Prize winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee. In […]
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Leo Szilard: The Man Behind the Bomb
Whichever way you pronounce it, Leo Szilard was a phenomenon. Credited for the creation of the Manhattan Project and the idea of nuclear chain reaction that spawned the atomic bomb, Szilard lived both sides of the arms race, working first to prevent, then to hasten, and finally to outlaw nuclear weapons. Szilard could see the […]
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Enjoy your favorite sport.. and stay healthy while you do it.
For those of you who refuse to enjoy your favorite sports from the sidelines, this new series is for you. Designed for the weekend warrior and those who love them, Sports Medicine: Expert Treatments for Optimum Activity explores approaches, treatments, and how to avoid common injuries. Whether you are a casual walker or a competitive […]
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April Enews and Highlights
Sign up to receive UCTV News and Highlights by e-mail: FEATURED THIS MONTH Leo Szilard: The Man Behind the Bomb William Lanouette, author of “Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, ” explains how Szilard’s fear of German dominance of nuclear research inspired the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the […]
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Millie Dresselhaus on Energy Sustainability
UCTV’s Women in Science kicks off the month of April by celebrating an influential woman in the scientific field, MIT Professor Mildred Dresselhaus. A pioneer in Nanoscience, Dresselhaus is one of the first scientists to open the door to using carbon based materials on a nanoscale. Some of her notable contributions paved the way for […]