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From Apple to Canva: Guy Kawasaki’s Advice for a Remarkable Life
Guy Kawasaki has spent decades in Silicon Valley, from the Macintosh division at Apple in the early 1980s to his current role as chief evangelist of Canva. Drawing on that long view of tech, entrepreneurship, and reinvention, he opens this UC Your Future talk by telling the audience exactly what he wants to do: explain…
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How a Year in Space Affects the Human Body
Science fiction has long promised an age of interplanetary human existence. Scenes of spaceships hopping from one galaxy to the next are so common, it seems almost inevitable that future generations will one day vacation on Mars. But, if we are ever going to achieve life on other planets, we first have to figure out…
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Engineering Mosquitos to Fight Malaria
Mosquitos are the deadliest animal on Earth. They spread diseases like yellow fever, chikungunya, West Nile virus and malaria. Malaria alone killed 435,000 people and infected another 219 million in 2017 according to the World Health Organization. There are widespread efforts to combat mosquito-borne illnesses, including revolutionary new gene editing techniques. Ethan Bier and Valentino…
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Rising Inequality: Trends, Explanations and Solutions
Income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income among a population. In the United States, income inequality, or the gap between the rich and everyone else, has been growing for the last several decades. Economist Valerie Ramey of UC San Diego gives an insightful talk charting the rise, fall and rise again of income…