Teacher Resources (Video)

“She is Fierce: The Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw” is an exploration of the multimedia artist’s expansive and diverse body of work, featuring commentary from colleagues and an in-depth interview with Cutler-Shaw. Throughout her long career the art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw has taken on a wide spectrum of forms, from melting iconic “ice words” and reflective light sculptures to installations and public commissions to intricately drawn depictions of the human form. Her subjects are human identity and the natural world; her themes are evolution and survival - from reptile into bird, from mammal to human, and from human, perhaps, to humane. But always at her art’s core, according to Cutler-Shaw, is her use of drawing “as a way of knowing, as a mode of inquiry, as a visual language.” Her “word images” have been central motifs, informing her works from the outset. Culter-Shaw’s works are exhibited in museums and library collections worldwide. Series: "Portrait of the Artist" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 31162]

Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Jennifer Hofmeister gives a lively account of why and how she is working to understand the behavior of octopuses in order to save California’s endangered white abalone, which faces extinction when the last adult generations die out within the next decade. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 31441]

¿Qué tienen que ver un tazón de maní del porte de un estadio, un elefante que se encoge y un jugador de hockey enloquecido con la nanociencia? Esas son solo algunas de las disparatadas excursiones que le esperan cuando el ingenioso presentador Adam Smith y el chiflado físico Iván Schuller lo lleven a corretear como locos de manera irreverente y cómica en busca, en la vida real, de cómo crear el magneto más pequeño que se conozca. Series: "Not Too Serious Labs" [Science] [Spanish Language] [Show ID: 31453]

Explore how a species of Scrub Jay, the Island Scrub Jay, is expanding oak forests on Santa Cruz Island, helping to recover natural habitat on California's Channel Islands. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Show ID: 31252]

Sarah Giddings of Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains how the El Nino conditions of 2016 show us what the effects of sea level changes due to climate changes will look like 45 to 60 years from now. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30883]

Scripps Institution’s Jeff Severinghaus takes you on a thorough exploration of the record that greenhouse gases captured in ice for nearly a million years tells us, and explains what this reveals about current human activities and future conditions for our planet. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30661]

San Diego Opera General Director David Bennett hosts beloved opera legend Frederica von Stade in a lively discussion about her career, and in particular her long-standing collaboration with composer Jake Heggie (Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick. In addition to performing Heggie’s songs, Von Stade starred in his operas Three Decembers and Great Scott. Series: "Osher UC San Diego Distinguished Lecture Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30769]

Poet Nikki Giovanni reads a selection of her poems as part of the 2016 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30819]

Philip Warburg explores a range of solar technologies. A seasoned environmental lawyer, Warburg makes a case for embracing this technology as he talks about what is happening around the country and what more could be done. Series: "Climate Solutions " [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30827]

In this talk, Wenda Trevathan of New Mexico State University focuses on energetic and biomechanical factors that converge at the time of birth to set the stage for an enormously expanded role of child-rearing in human evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 28029]