Teacher Resources (Audio)
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Douglas Candland Elissa Newport Paula Tallal
This CARTA symposium addresses the influences of environment and culture on the emergence of the human mind. Douglas Candland (Bucknell University) Feral Children: Two Living Examples and a Little Ne…
00:59:14 |
Sat 30 Nov 2019
CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Ajit Varki: Prologue: Royal Experiments on Language Origins
Ajit Varki presents fascinating historical background on efforts to understand the acquisition of language via some very questionable means - and provides commentary on the ethics of such excessive p…
00:08:55 |
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Your Genetic Privacy in the Big Data Era - Exploring Ethics
In the United States, privacy is considered a fundamental right. Yet today our activities are followed to a degree unfathomable not long ago by way of cell phones, online behaviors, and more. As geno…
00:52:40 |
Sat 23 Nov 2019
Biomimicry: Innovating Using Nature’s Toolbox
Over millions of years of evolution, organisms on earth have developed and perfected complex adaptations that allow them to survive and eventually thrive under specific environmental conditions. Dimi…
00:54:59 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Special Effects: The Wizard Of Oz
Dangerous stunts, actor injuries, how to build a twister, and the technicolor production process all arise in this bright and deep conversation about The Wizard of Oz (1939) between UW Milwaukee prof…
00:42:51 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Working with Natural Born Killers: Using Natural Killer Cells to Improve Cancer Immunotherapies
Natural Killer - or NK - cells are one of our immune systems most potent defenses, able to attack viral infections and destroy cells that exhibit tumorigenic characteristics. UC San Diego physician D…
00:13:51 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Young People's Concert 2019 - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
In this fun and informative program Conductor Steven Schick guides the audience through excerpts from Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Florence Price's Violin Concerto No.1 as well as the com…
00:55:55 |
Wed 13 Nov 2019
Navigating the Design Space of Trajectories Toward Low/Zero-Carbon Energy Systems in California
Transforming our energy infrastructure to support greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals will require the deployment of technologies such as electric vehicles and energy storage. Improper int…
00:28:16 |
Wed 13 Nov 2019
WiFire: Technology to Predict and Prevent the Spread of Wildfires
Researchers at UC San Diego are working on cutting edge technology to combat the constant threat of wildfires in California. The WIFIRE Lab is a collaboration between the Qualcomm Institute and the S…
00:08:32 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Designing Effective Materials for our Energy Future
Ram Seshadri argues that energy efficiency can be as important to our future as renewable energy. LED lights are extremely efficient. In this talk he explores how white light emission from an LED lam…
00:27:44 |
Tue 05 Nov 2019
Avengers: Endgame - Script to Screen
Tying together the Infinity War saga, crafting emotionally satisfying sendoffs to beloved superheroes and dispatching supervillain Thanos all arise as topics in this conversation about Avengers: Endg…
00:54:33 |
Tue 05 Nov 2019
Elements of the High Seas: A Tale of Two Metals and their Impact on Life
Metals are vital to life functions. We have iron zinc and copper in us – but in the ocean is different. We know that organism evolve against the chemical constraints of their environments and Allison…
00:28:51 |
Mon 04 Nov 2019
Cutting-Edge Modeling Tools to Enable Low Carbon Grids
Decarbonizing our electricity and transportation sectors will require large deployments of wind, solar, and storage. Ranjit Deshmukh develops models for planning and operations of low carbon electric…
00:27:01 |
Mon 04 Nov 2019
Adding Soft to Robotics: From Gecko-inspired Wall-climbing to Vine-inspired Navigation
Elliot Hawkes’s research focuses on bringing together design, mechanics, and non-traditional materials to advance the vision of robust, adaptable, human-safe robots that can thrive in the uncertain, …
00:27:53 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Coastal Water Security with Distributed Offshore Reverse Osmosis
California's recent drought has highlighted the need for a reliable source of water. Peter Stricker of SeaWell presents a reverse osmosis (RO) system to address climate-driven drought which is an ent…
00:29:31 |
Wed 30 Oct 2019
If Researchers Find a Tumor Should They Tell You? - Exploring Ethics
Research imaging studies, including MRI and CT scans, may provide different information than the imaging performed for clinical care. For instance, a liver MRI using research sequences could be more …
00:58:15 |
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Editing the Code of Life: Into the Future with CRISPR Technology with Jennifer Doudna - 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
Jennifer Doudna, co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9 and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses how genome editing with CRISPR technology is transforming biology. CRISPR-Cas9, an RNA-guided …
00:57:40 |
Sat 26 Oct 2019
Behavioral Economics: The Failure of Contingent Thinking
Rational choice theory states that individuals have coherent preferences over alternatives but this theory is being replaced by a new view rooted in psychology. Ignacio Esponda (Economics, UCSB) give…
00:29:16 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
What Happened to the World's Manufacturing Jobs?
Economist Aashish Mehta suggests the days of high manufacturing employment in this country are over. He explains data that show that it is increasingly hard for any wealthy country to compete in the …
00:29:04 |
Mon 21 Oct 2019
Fort Ord Reserve: Connecting Community to Research and Conservation
Transformative field experiences at our 600-acre Fort Ord Natural Reserve are inspiring a new generation of natural scientists. The incredible outdoor classroom offers opportunities for students, sci…
00:02:32 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
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