5G network antennae and cellphones are becoming increasingly common around the world as providers are continuing to support 5G technology. KCSB Isaac Tung, spoke with Monika Krajewska, Creative Director at Elegant Living 27, as to how 5G cellphones could take a toll on our health and the environment as well as on the work she is doing to open the conversation about 5G.

To find out where 5G antennas are located in your neighborhood, visit antennasearch.com

The backyards of some ocean-side homes along Del Playa Drive are shrinking due to bluff erosion. And, the County is working on a plan to keep residents safe - and homes from falling over the cliff sides. KCSB's Lisa Osborn speaks with Third County Representative, Gina Fischer, who works with Sup. Joan Hartmann, to find out what's being done to protect lives and properties. In addition, Fischer details a plan that brings more street lighting to Isla Vista.

KCSB's Natasia Stillman speaks with Ken Ralph, executive director of Showers of Blessing, about the org's five year anniversary. Then, we hear from students in the Isla Vista Youth Projects after school program to find out what they are looking most forward to for Thanksgiving.

Over 5 million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer’s dementia. A medical case has arisen from a family in Columbia, where a woman with a genetic mutation which virtually guaranteed that she would develop early onset Alzheimers did not develop the disease until her 70s. Juliana Acosta-Uribe, a graduate student in the Kosik Lab, along with several other co-researchers, further investigated what could have caused this exception as well as what this could mean for Alzheimer therapy.

KCSB’s Caroline He has the story.

A piece of national history is being relocated from the Library of Congress to San Francisco where a new museum dedicated to the AIDS crisis and the lives it took will be commemorated by the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

UCSB became a Platinum Level Friendly Bike University. There are pro, cons, and plans on how UCSB can become a more friendly bike campus, as discussed by KCSBs, Isaac Tung and Ken Hitlner.

The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission put in place by, Prop 63, is incorporating new and innovative approaches to youth mental health. The Central Coast divisions of the Youth Innovation Idea Lab is an intensive, interactive and free-thinking environment where youth and adults come together in a collaborative space to ponder ways to improve youth accessible mental health. KCSBs Thomas Moran spoke with Marisol Beas, Youth Committee member with Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.

The California Youth Innovation Idea Lab will be held December 6, 2019 at 11am. If you would like more information or are interested in attending, please email Marisol Beas at [email protected].

Doctor Craig Torres-Ness is assistant professor in the USC School of Emergency Medicine, and a volunteer working with the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights. He & fellow volunteer doctors make monthly visits to Tijuana to check up on the

health conditions of the large numbers of asylum seekers, individuals and family groups,

now marooned in Mexico, awaiting a hearing for their legitimate claims for entry into the United States. KCSBs Harry Lawton has the story.

The Student Activist Network is a student organizing action group formed in the wake of the 2016 election results. Its current key organizers, recognizing that key structural issues persist through any political line-in-the-sand, have since restructured the organization to better serve the community of Isla Vista and at large.

KCSB’s Riley Esguerra sits down with two of their student organizers, to learn about how the org works, the work they do and who they do it for.

Does having less time to answer a question result in a more honest answer? A previously established method of psychological research believes the answer is yes. However, UCSB Postdoctoral Scholar John Prozco recently published a paper on how this method may be built on a faulty assumption. KCSB News’s Caroline He spoke with him to get the details on his research.