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Can Bird build a better scooter before it runs out of cash? | Los Angeles Times
Others pointed to a possible soft landing for scooters as a component of city transit services along the lines of existing bike-share programs. Juan Matute, deputy director of UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies, said that public-private partnerships could spark more investment in charging stations, which would reduce costs and compel law enforcement to pay more attention to theft and vandalism. “The unit economics might work out as a result of all this VC investment,” Matute said. “And then some of the less sexy smaller providers that have been involved in the bike-share space can start offering some of these types of vehicles as a city-contracted managed provider.”
U.N. report: 1 million animal and plant species at risk of extinction | CBS News
“We’re looking at a crisis,” says UCLA’s Thomas Smith. “This is code red…. Biodiversity is basically all the living parts of the planet. And that includes us. So we depend on animals and plants for our food, for our pollinators. If we lose those elements, we’re losing essentially the resources that humans use to survive.”
The NRA’s troubles stem from its total war mentality | Los Angeles Times Opinion
NRA folks today inveigh against “the socialists” with the same vehemence they used to reserve for gun-grabbers. UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America,” observes that NRATV — the online media outlet of the NRA — has strayed far from the gun lane. “Now it’s focused on immigration, race, health care,” he told the New Republic.
UCLA sweeps USC to win NCAA volleyball title | Los Angeles Times
The season-long battle between UCLA and USC for supremacy in beach volleyball ended Sunday with a dominant victory for the Bruins in Gulf Shores, Ala. In the sixth meeting of the year between the rivals, UCLA did not lose a set in a 3-0 victory that gave the Bruins their second NCAA championship in a row. (Also: NCAA.com, Los Angeles Daily News)
How hip hop artists are defining a ‘modern indigenous identity’ | CBC Radio
“For many of us who grew up in a variety of Indigenous cultures, whether urban or whether on the reserve, etc., hip hop has been a part of those journeys, especially for Indigenous millennials,” said [UCLA’s Kyle] Mays, who is Black and Saginaw Anishinaabe. Mays explores the concept in his book, “Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.”
How NBC’s ‘must see’ TV risk takers of the ’90s are still launching groundbreaking TV | Los Angeles Times
“Warren had tremendous taste and really elegant leadership,” says Nunan, a partner at Bull’s Eye Entertainment and a lecturer at the UCLA School of Film, Theater and Television. “You felt good coming into work every morning with him there. He obviously had excellent taste in picking executives.”
In Trump vs. California, the state is winning nearly all its environmental cases | Los Angeles Times
“Every administration has its ups and downs in the courts,” said Sean Hecht, an expert on environmental law at UCLA’s School of Law. “Still, it’s safe to say, the Trump administration has done particularly badly.”
Parents of babies too young to vaccinate feel trapped by measles outbreak | New York Times
Pediatricians say that giving the measles vaccine to children younger than a year old is usually unnecessary and may be ineffective, in part because babies that age still have antibodies from their mothers that could inhibit their response to the vaccine. If their mothers were fully immunized, babies may be born with some protection from measles, but it varies from child to child, said Dr. Annabelle De St. Maurice, an expert on infectious diseases at UCLA. Giving the measles vaccine at 12 to 15 months of age leads to a higher proportion of protected children than giving it earlier does, she said.
Using neurostimulation to treat ADHD isn’t as scary as it sounds | Gizmodo
[UCLA’s James] McGough said the device’s two wires, attached to a bandage-like patch on the forehead, provide something of a light tingling sensation. Children who use the device likely won’t even experience that tingle much of the time, since the device is intended to be worn while sleeping for about eight hours. “If you use a tuning fork and put it to your forehead, you’d get more of a vibration than you would from this. We’re not plugging people into a wall socket, we’re using a 9-volt lithium battery to generate a charge over eight hours—it’s so minimum,” he said. “But that stimulation to your forehead actually feeds back and adjusts the [brain activity of] the areas of the brain that are involved in ADHD.”
New generation of Japanese-Americans traces family history in U.S. internment camps | Chicago Tribune
“There are a lot of young people, third and fourth generation, who are taking interest in their grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ life experiences,” said Karen Umemoto, director of the University of California at Los Angeles’ Asian American Studies Center. Umemoto last year went on her own pilgrimage to visit what remains of the Manzanar camp in the Owens Valley of California, where her father was detained. “The Nisei generation (those born to Japanese immigrants) that were in camps as children or as young adults — many have passed on,” Umemoto said. “Part of the phenomenon of the pilgrimages is an honoring of those ancestors.”
Self-improvement might sound healthy. But there’s a downside to wanting to change | Time
“When people think about themselves over time, the people who perceive there to be the most similarity between who they are now and who they will be in the future end up being more satisfied with their lives in 10 years’ time,” says study co-author Hal Hershfield, an associate professor of marketing at the University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.
Meth vs. opioids: America has two drug epidemics, but focuses on one | Kaiser Health News
Policymakers in Washington, D.C., haven’t kept up, continuing to direct the bulk of funding and attention to opioids, said Steve Shoptaw, an addiction psychologist at UCLA in Los Angeles, where he hears one story after another about meth destroying people’s lives. “But when you’re in D.C., where people are making decisions about how to deploy resources, those stories are very much muffled by the much louder story about the opioid epidemic,” he said…. “The bottom line is, as Americans, we have just so much tolerance to deal with addiction,” Shoptaw said. “And if the opioid users have taken that tolerance, then there’s no more.”
For colleges, climate change means making tough choices | Chronicle of Higher Education
UCLA doesn’t have a campus designed to withstand wildfires, like Pepperdine, but it is taking steps to make its campus less flame-friendly. The drier weather has begun killing off some species of trees planted around the campus, such as non-native Canary Island pines. As part of a master landscape plan, the university is now looking at replacing some trees with better-adapted native species — and getting rid of its eucalyptus trees altogether. The aromatic oil that suffuses them means “eucalyptuses are quite flammable,” says Nurit Katz, chief sustainability officer. “The large number of eucalyptus is part of why the Oakland Fire in the ’90s was so severe.”
Pokémon characters have their own pea-sized region in brain, study finds | Ars Technica
It’s well known that human beings are remarkably adept at visually recognizing faces, words, numbers, places, colors, and so forth thanks to a constellation of regions — small clusters of neurons about the size of a pea — in the temporal lobe, located just behind the ears. Those regions show up in the same place in most people, despite differences in age, sex, or race. There’s even a so-called “Jennifer Aniston neuron,” (aka the “grandmother cell”) discovered by a UCLA neuroscientist in 2005, whose primary purpose seems to be to recognize images of the famous actress. Similar neurons have also been found for other celebrities like Bill Clinton, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, and Kobe Bryant.
Guidelines for Tourette syndrome treatment call for behavioral therapy before medication | Philly.com
John Piacentini, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was part of a group of psychologists and psychiatrists who developed CBIT in 2000. They brought together “habit-reversal” training and an approach designed to reduce anxiety.
U.S. consumers and businesses — not China — bear the brunt of Trump’s tariffs | CBS News
“Workers in very Republican counties bore the brunt of the costs of the trade war, in part because retaliations disproportionately targeted agricultural sectors,” researchers wrote in the UCLA-led study. When combined with protectionist policies that shielded some U.S. companies from competitive imports, the U.S. economy lost an estimated $7.8 billion because of the tariffs imposed on China and other countries last year.
The Trump administration hopes ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ holds true in 2020 | KPCC-FM
“What we were able to do is, using a lot of data that we collected since 2011, show that one of the ways that Trump was successful in making an argument about jobs and the economy was to refract that argument through a lens of identity,” says UCLA’s Lynn Vavreck. “It wasn’t just about losing your job, it was about losing your job to an undocumented worker or two people who have just newly arrived in the United States who haven’t waited for their turn in line. He did that a lot. Not just with the economy — with foreign policy, with terrorism. So he was using identity to activate these issues in a more powerful way.” (Approx. 37:40 mark)
