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Extreme winds fueled fires and toppled big rigs. But firefighters were prepared for battle | Los Angeles Times
“There’s actually record cold air mass right now over the Rockies and the Great Basin,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In Boulder, Colo., there’s a foot of snow on the ground and the temperature is 9 degrees — in October. “This extremely cold air mass directly from the Arctic is sitting just to the east of California. And that is obviously a great contrast with the not-so-frigid air over California, and especially as you get closer to the ocean,” Swain said. “That thermal contrast is setting up that strong pressure contrast, which is in turn driving these very strong winds.”
White House pressed car makers to join its fight over California emissions rules | New York Times
Some experts questioned the automakers’ legal reasoning for siding with the administration. “It’s hard to see how this intervention is anything other than a pretty hostile stance against California’s authority,” said Ann Carlson, co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California Los Angeles Law School. For years, she said, California’s efforts to set tougher clean air rules amounted to pressure on the federal government to follow suit. “If you eliminate that authority, you eliminate that pressure. That’s awfully convenient for the auto companies,” she said.
San Diego County will help low-income residents buy electric vehicles | San Diego Union-Tribune
In the South Coast district, more than 100 people are applying for the program each month, and the outreach effort has helped people replace more than 2,000 vehicles since the program began, according to a report released this month by UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation.
From Simi Valley to wine country, extreme winds and explosive fires maintain hold on California | Los Angeles Times
“The magnitude of the wind gusts really is going to be a concern,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
‘Sexy nurse’ costumes demean one of the most in-demand professions in American life | Business Insider
“Sexy nurse” outfits perpetuate stereotypes that the profession is low-skilled, assistant work for women, said MarySue Heilemann, an associate professor at the UCLA School of Nursing. In reality, many nurses get doctorate degrees and conduct groundbreaking medical research. Yet driven, science-minded women and men can feel alienated going into the profession if they view it as less respectable than physicians.
By siding with Trump on emissions, GM, Chrysler and Toyota are asking for industry chaos | Los Angeles Times Column
Don’t take the companies’ word seriously that they want compromise,” says Ann Carlson, an environmental law expert at UCLA. “The idea that intervening in a case on the side of the Trump administration could be part of a compromise is silly.”
California needs more realistic housing construction goals | Riverside Press-Enterprise Opinion
The steady upward drive of housing prices in the region began to flag earlier this year, with prices stabilizing at least for a while. That now has developers in the entire region leery of building very much, according to a new study of California builders by UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and the law firm Allen Matkins. The report focused on multi-family housing, as well as new office and retail construction.
Campuswire raises $3.6 million to improve online class discussions | EdSurge
One of the earliest users of Campuswire is Joshua Samani, a physics lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Samani says he’s used Campuswire for about two years now after receiving an email from the company. At that time, he had been looking for a new communications tool whose interface better supported group conversations for topics discussed in class. “The way he described his vision for where the product would be, that’s what I thought makes an optimal communications tool,” says Samani. He says his classes, usually consisting of about 200 students, have liked the tool so far. He’s even measured class preference through bonus questions on his final exams.
Southern California may see strongest Santa Ana winds of season amid raging wildfires | New York Post
“This extremely cold air mass directly from the Arctic is sitting just to the east of California,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told the Times. “And that is obviously a great contrast with the not-so-frigid air over California, and especially as you get closer to the ocean. That thermal contrast is setting up that strong pressure contrast, which is in turn driving these very strong winds.”
Hematologists, oncologists elected to National Academy of Medicine | Healio
Newly elected members recognized for contributions related to hematology and oncology include: Denise R. Aberle, MD, professor of radiology and bioengineering and vice chair for research/radiological sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. She led the NCI-sponsored National Lung Screening Trial, which showed low-dose CT screening reduced lung cancer mortality by 20% compared with chest radiographic screening.
What does alienation feel like? | Psychology Today
There is one moderately famous paper from the fifties by Melvin Seeman, called “On the Meaning of Alienation.” In it, the UCLA social psychologist tried to formulate alienation in the psychological terms of the day.
