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If comic-book movies aren’t emotional and psychological cinema, why are we crying? | Los Angeles Times
Andrea Letamendi, associate director of mental health training, intervention and response at UCLA, sees more in the best of these films than these giants of cinema do. “Superhero films are giving us a way to practice and explore really important emotional processes that we may not be able to examine in our everyday lives. In ‘Endgame,’ the more fantastical, the better, because that gives us the supportive safety net to be open and vulnerable and curious about these things,” she says.
California’s Latino voters helped turn state blue. Will others catch the wave? | Christian Science Monitor
It’s not clear if and when Latino votes might reshape the presidential electoral map. Key red states to watch are Texas and Arizona, says Angie Gutierrez, a Ph.D. candidate studying the issue at the University of California, Los Angeles. In Texas “we saw a lot of Latinos go to the polls in the midterm election. I think this is an indication that Texas might not be staying with the Republican Party as long as some might think,” she says. But Latinos can’t flip these states by themselves; white voters also have to swing to the Democratic side.
How unique is Earth? | EarthSky
But now, a new study of white dwarf stars by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) provides fresh evidence that planets like Earth are probably quite common in our galaxy, an exciting implication…. As Hilke Schlichting, a UCLA associate professor of astrophysics and planetary science, explained, determining the composition of rocky material so far away is not an easy task: “Learning the composition of planets outside our solar system is very difficult. We used the only method possible — a method we pioneered — to determine the geochemistry of rocks outside of the solar system.” (UCLA’s Edward Young also quoted)
UCLA reveals educational and social challenges affecting black youth in L.A. County | Los Angeles Sentinel
“The academic achievement of Black and low-income students in California has been a focus for many decades in schools. Yet our failure to recognize that schools alone cannot address poverty and unhealthy community conditions has made it more difficult for social policies to have a positive impact on the needs of our most vulnerable children,” Joseph Bishop, Director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for the Transformation of Schools stated.
Here’s why you shouldn’t grab that extra hour of sleep this weekend | Los Angeles Times
Sunday morning, daylight saving time bestows its final gift, after all those sunlit summer evenings: We fall back, into an extra hour of sleep. “Isn’t that a luxury? But unfortunately, it’s not lasting,” said Dr. Alon Y. Avidan, director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center. Also, it can throw off the subsequent sleep schedule of anyone who already has trouble dozing off or doesn’t get the necessary seven to eight hours per night…. “This is an opportunity for people to be mindful how easy it is to transition,” Avidan said. “It’s easier to adapt when you get an extra hour. Make the change right now.”
Hundreds of migrants die every year trying to cross the southwest border into the U.S. | Philadelphia Inquirer
“We’ve kind of lost sight of the human cost of this, because we’re thinking about other pressing migration issues or political issues,” said Jason De Leon, a University of California, Los Angeles anthropology professor and author of “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.”
‘True rise’ in thyroid cancer incidence, related mortality observed in California | Healio
“Although we agree that the increased incidence of thyroid cancer over recent decades is primarily attributable to greater use of improved diagnostic techniques, our study also demonstrated a concurrent increase in incidence-based mortality, suggesting that there has also been a true biological increase of clinically significant disease as captured in a large, comprehensive statewide registry,” Kimberly Lim Yan, BS, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Angela M. Leung, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism of the department of medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told Endocrine Today. “We also found a significant increase in overall incidence-based mortality, particularly among men and individuals with larger tumor sizes.”
UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios by Johnston Marklee | Architectural Record
Like an invitingly blank canvas, “the architecture doesn’t compete with the art-making,” [UCLA alumna Margo] Leavin noted just before the official opening, adding, “The students have already taken over —it’s theirs!” As Johnston sees it, “We can’t wait to return over time to find out how they’ve occupied it. For us, buildings are improved by the patina of use.”
UCLA receives grant for prostate cancer diagnosis, treatment | City News Service
The prostate cancer program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Health has been awarded an $8.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The Specialized Program of Research Excellence grant will support the development of new and innovative approaches for improving the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
Trump’s Ukraine dishonesty barrage continues. He made 96 false claims last week | CNN
Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles and faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, noted the absence of evidence for the administration’s claims about environmental problems caused by homeless people in San Francisco. “Trump’s tweet is misleading or flatly false on several fronts. Although he claimed in late September that the city’s failure to manage its homelessness problem was causing serious water pollution problems from needles and human waste, his EPA has produced no evidence to back up its claim,” she said.
‘Devil winds’ drive Southern California fires | New York Times
The winds could reach 50 to 80 miles per hour in the areas of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, putting them, possibly, at the “upper end of people’s historical experience,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He said he predicted more heavy winds through Thursday. “There’s still a pretty long period of winds still to come,” Mr. Swain said.
The past and future web | Forbes
On October 29, 2019, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of that first network message was celebrated at UCLA. This was an all-day event featuring most of the remaining players in early networking history. A panel with people who were at Len Kleinrock’s UCLA laboratory and the SRI Augmentation Research Center (the two initial nodes in what would become the ARPANET) is shown below.
16 reasons you should stop eating sugar | Men’s Health Latin-America
According to the University of Barcelona, the daily combination of caffeine and sugar increases mental dexterity. However, it’s better to save this for those annoying morning meetings, given that with time, a sugary diet makes learning and memorization more difficult, damaging communication between brain cells, says UCLA. (Translated from Spanish)
Uber and Lyft want to slap down California’s AB 5 ‘gig rule’ | Inc.
Speaking specifically of ride-hailing drivers, UCLA researchers found that in Los Angeles, almost half of the drivers felt they weren’t getting the pay they deserved because companies regularly shift prices and terms. Forty-four percent have such thin margins that they reported difficulty paying for such necessities as gas, insurance, and car maintenance.
Public reporting expands to stroke care | U.S. News & World Report
“Transparency of the data available about hospital quality and trends that data can show is a significant step in improving patient outcomes,” Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said in an AHA statement.
L.A. Kurdish community | KPCC-FM’s “Take Two”
“[It’s] the sort of thing that people have been talking about for a long time but have been unable to implement anywhere in the world, and particularly in the region of the Middle East, it’s an extraordinary event,” said UCLA’s James Galvin. (Approx. 25:25 mark)
California burning: the Getty fire | The Argonaut
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor Michael Jerrett said large fires start impacting the health of those around them immediately. “Usually within 24 hours we see increases in hospital visits and psychiatric or mental health struggles. We often see these elevations persisting for weeks,” Jerrett said. “Even though atmospheric conditions can clear up quickly, the effects on health can persist.”
Mitochondrial activity in lung tumors predicts response to drug inhibitor | Medical Xpress
Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have identified a new biomarker using a noninvasive imaging method that tracks mitochondrial activity in lung tumors. The level of activity could potentially predict which individuals with lung cancer will respond favorably to a complex I inhibitor that targets mitochondrial function and who may be resistant to current therapies.
Santa Ana winds increasing fire risk in Southern California | KCRW-FM
“They are always very dry winds, because they are coming from the desert. And because they are so dry and because they are so intense, they can lead to big fires,” said UCLA’s Alex Hall.
MRI might prevent misdiagnosis of patients with signs of dementia | HealthDay News
When a loved one shows signs of dementia, sometimes a head injury is the cause and MRI scans can help prevent a misdiagnosis of Alzheimer’s, researchers report…. “We already knew that MRIs can reveal subtle abnormalities in patients with neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s,” said study author Dr. Somayeh Meysami, a postdoctoral clinical research fellow in cognitive and behavioral neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
