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ChatGPT is helping women get pregnant | Rolling Stone

Aparna Sridhar, a doctor and professor in clinical obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA, can see why patients are drawn to ChatGPT but she worries about the accuracy of using it to track periods, recommending dedicated apps instead. “Track your menstrual cycle and find an app which is known to work with that data,” she says, as they are often designed with the consultation of medical professionals.

We need to learn to love tall buildings | New York Times

According to Kelly Turner, an urban planning professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the former director of the recently axed Center for Heat Resilient Communities, which was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shade of any kind can shave 30% off the “heat burden” — the total heat we gain outside — as well as ward off dehydration, headaches and serious heat illnesses.

L.A. immigration raids could serve as a blueprint | Christian Science Monitor

“Many parts of the state are racially and ethnically very integrated. People work in the same place with people who don’t look like them. They marry people, they date people that don’t look like them,” says Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA’s school of public affairs, and a former elected official. “Those are the kinds of things that are kind of run of the mill now.”

College admissions bill for descendants of slavery moves ahead | EdSource

Assembly Bill 7, authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, is the first statewide measure of its kind to address the harms of slavery, said UCLA education professor Tyrone Howard, and it has been backed by nearly two dozen organizations, including the California Federation of Teachers and the University of California Student Association. 

A key protein helps liver cancer resist heat-based treatment | Medical Xpress

A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center may help explain why certain liver tumors return quickly after thermal ablation, a widely used minimally invasive, image-guided technique that kills cancer cells by applying intense heat through a needle-like probe. (UCLA’s Dr. Jason Chiang and UCLA student Tu Nguyen were quoted.)