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100-year-old chemistry rule proven false | Earth.com
However, Neil Garg, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, disagreed. His team went ahead and made these “impossible” molecules anyway. “People aren’t exploring anti-Bredt olefins because they think they can’t,” Garg pointed out.
California lawmakers debate redistricting map | MSNBC
“What’s different here is that, as one Trump administration person put it to The New York Times, we have maximum warfare everywhere, all the time,” said UCLA’s Rick Hasen.
Many social security recipients are cutting back on essentials | Investopedia
“It is safe to assume that many retirees will continue to struggle with covering the cost of basic living expenses as inflation for these expenses will exceed the projected 2.7% COLA increase to Social Security,” said Imelda Padilla-Frausto, a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Immigration to U.S. declines for first time in 50 years | Los Angeles Times
“Looking ahead in the future, we’re going to have to rely on immigrant workers to fulfill a lot of the jobs in this country,” said Victor Narro, project director at UCLA Labor Center. “Like it or not, the demographics are going to be changing in this country. It’s already changing, but it’s going to be more pronounced in the future, especially with the decline in native-born workers.”
Green spaces crucial to combat record heat | Associated Press
“It’s just kind of become unbearable during those hot summer days to spend time outside,” said [Julia] Silver, a researcher at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. In June, [the] Institute launched a Latino Climate and Health Dashboard, which creates a centralized source that shows the climate disparities Latino neighborhoods across California. Developed with guidance from a statewide advisory committee of climate justice, public health, and data equity experts, the dashboard shows 90% of California’s Latino population faces climate inequities, from higher air pollution to more days of extreme heat than white residents.
They refused to say ‘they/them.’ Then they were fired | USA Today
Researchers at the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute estimate that 2.1 million Americans are trans adults — whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth — a third of whom are trans nonbinary people.
S.F. not built for heat waves | San Francisco Chronicle
Still, Ruth Engel, a project manager for environmental data science at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation, said the approach the city is taking —collecting information on the community’s needs and centering plans around vulnerable neighborhoods — is crucial. Many California cities and towns have scant or no data on how residents experience heat, and what areas are most at-risk, she said.
