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Federal court upholds California’s new congressional districts | LA Times

Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law, said he thought it unlikely that GOP attorneys could now get an injunction from the Supreme Court. The standard to get an injunction from the nation’s highest court if the lower court didn’t grant one, he noted, is supposed to be higher than the standard to get a stay if the court granted an injunction.

National park staff are asking about visitors’ citizenship status | LA Times

Talia Inlender, deputy director for the Center of Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA, said the pricing coupled with the additional identity verification is likely to deter immigrant communities from visiting national parks across the country for fear of being asked to “show their papers.”

Can AI generate new ideas? | New York Times

“It feels to me like a really clever student who has memorized everything for the test but doesn’t have a deep understanding of the concept,” said Terence Tao, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is regarded by many as the finest mathematician of his generation. “It has so much background knowledge that it can fake actual understanding.”

Four ways to beat the anxiety of insomnia — and get back to sleep | NPR

Instead of trying to force yourself to go to bed at a specific time, even though you're not sleepy, focus on winding down for bed earlier, says Dr. Ravi Aysola, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

LA's awash in potholes after rains, worsening commutes | Los Angeles Times

Rain that gets through cracks in the pavement softens the soil beneath, causing more deformation under traffic loading and leading to more cracking, according to Jonathan Stewart, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. “It’s a cycle of progressively enhancing degradation,” he wrote in an email.

New California gun law ruling sparks local reaction | Spectrum News 1

UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler agreed that the ruling will be challenged. “I think so. The government’s going to appeal and try to get a rehearing in front of the larger court. If that fails, then they’ll try to go to the Supreme Court. So, we’re still plenty of procedural steps away from people being able to openly carry,” he said.

How crisis affects our ideas about the future | The Guardian

“From an evolutionary standpoint, we are not designed to be thinking about a very distant future,” said Dr. Hal Hershfield, a psychologist and professor of marketing and behavioral decision-making at UCLA.

Low-calorie, fasting-mimicking diet’s impact on Crohn’s disease | Healthline

Emeran Mayer, a gastroenterologist at UCLA who wasn’t involved in the study, said the results are interesting. “The study was done by a group of highly respected dietary experts and was well designed. Even though at first glance the results with the FMD seem surprising, there are multiple biological reasons to explain the benefit of the diet in this patient population,” he told Healthline.

Inside the Iranian protests over the nation’s economy | KCBS-TV

“Each of those protests saw increasing numbers of people take part in street demonstrations against government policies. More people from different areas of Iran, from different backgrounds of Iran, taking part. But each of them might have peaked, and a combination of repression and lack of organization resulted in demobilization of people,” said UCLA’s Kevan Harris. (Also: UCLA’s Benjamin Radd was interviewed by Spectrum News 1.)

To be young and dreaming of a 9 to 5 | Marketplace

UCLA economics professor Till von Wachter said that when young people enter the workforce during a recession, it takes more time for them to land in the right place. “It takes a while to find that good job, and then it takes a while to reaccumulate those skills, and you're just behind,” he said. That has knock-on effects. People who start work in a recession tend to earn less over the course of their careers, von Wachter’s research found, making for more divorces, smaller families, and worse health.