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Texas floods leave officials pointing fingers after warnings missed | The Hill
University of California, Los Angeles, meteorologist Daniel Swain wrote on X that such outreach is “one of the first things to go away when offices are critically understaffed.” (Swain was also quoted by Bloomberg News and interviewed on “CBS Evening News Plus.”)
Where to seek shade in an ever warming world | NPR’s “1A”
Heat is a deadly threat that has been intensifying each summer. And while some of us turn to air conditioning, many don’t have that option. As this becomes the new normal in a warming world, what power does shade have to cool us down? (UCLA’s V. Kelly Turner was interviewed.)
Cleaning up smog is suddenly much harder | CalMatters
These types of regulations “are definitely a leading strategy that California can continue to pursue environmental justice goals, despite the federal government being completely disinterested in environmental justice,” said Brennon Mendez, an environmental law and policy fellow at UCLA School of Law. (UCLA’s Ann Carlson was also quoted.)
Stress is wrecking your health: how can science help? | Nature
[George] Slavich recognized the mental and emotional trauma he was feeling — and could imagine how it would affect his health. He studies stress for a living, after all. Yet even after he brought up his concerns, his health-care provider didn’t evaluate his stress. “If stress isn’t assessed, then it isn’t addressed,” says Slavich, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “The experience highlighted a paradox between what I know stress is doing to the brain and body, and how little attention it gets in clinical care.”
OpenAI and Microsoft bankroll new AI training for teachers | New York Times
Trevor Griffey, a lecturer in labor studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, also warned that tech firms could use AI deals with schools and the teachers’ union as marketing opportunities to make students lifetime chatbot customers.
The odd over the obvious | Slate
(Commentary by UCLA’s Robert Watson) This spring’s hot topic of conversation for my colleagues in higher ed was that “Everyone is cheating their way through college” article in New York magazine. Most of the fellow professors I spoke with about this were horrified by how often students now can and do let AI write their papers. Others are joining their students in asking, ”Why not?”
Nail salons are still being targeted in fights over gig worker law | CalMatters
One estimate by UCLA and the California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative advocacy group says that more than 80% of nail salon workers are immigrants, the overwhelming majority of whom are Vietnamese women. The report’s authors said those workers are vulnerable to worker misclassification, below minimum wages and other labor violations.
