UC Santa Barbara (Video)

Gerd Gigerenzer defines what heuristics are and how they develop the way a person thinks. Gigernezer, currently a distinguished fellow at SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/events/homo-heuristicus-rationality-mortals#sthash.0qUqR6BJ.dpuf Series: "SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 28733]

In his book “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men,” Eric Lichtblau investigates a trove of newly discovered documents which bring to light an unknown era post WWII. He discusses how Nazis were protected by the U.S. government to become spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers. Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29505]

UCSB’s Joseph Polchinski speaks about the search for a unified theory of the laws of physics, and the difficulty of reconciling two of the main pieces: quantum mechanics, which governs the very small, and general relativity, which governs the very large. A professor of physics and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Polchinski was named UC Santa Barbara’s 2014 Faculty Research Lecturer. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 30118]

UCSB’s Script to Screen visits Comic Con 2015 in San Diego. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30030]

This research conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara addresses the important issues of food sustainability in our world where population growth creates an increasing demand for food. This conference discusses that food from the sea can be one of the primary sources to help feed the growing population, and that this would create sustainable methods to do so without damaging the existing environments or dwindling the populations the animals being harvested. Series: "Bren School of Environmental Science & Management" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30120]

This research conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara addresses the important issues of food sustainability in our world where population growth creates an increasing demand for food. This conference discusses that food from the sea can be one of the primary sources to help feed the growing population, and that this would create sustainable methods to do so without damaging the existing environments or dwindling the populations the animals being harvested. Series: "Bren School of Environmental Science & Management" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30119]

This research conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara addresses the important issues of food sustainability in our world where population growth creates an increasing demand for food. This conference discusses how food from the sea can be one of the primary sources to help feed the growing population, and that there are sustainable methods to do so without damaging the existing environments or dwindling the populations the animals being harvested. Series: "Bren School of Environmental Science & Management" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 29904]

This research conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara addresses the important issues of food sustainability in our world where population growth creates an increasing demand for food. This conference discusses that food from the sea can be one of the primary sources to help feed the growing population, and that this would create sustainable methods to do so without damaging the existing environments or dwindling the populations the animals being harvested. Series: "Bren School of Environmental Science & Management" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 29903]

This research conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara addresses the important issues of food sustainability in our world where population growth creates an increasing demand for food. Food from the sea can be one of the primary sources to help feed the growing population, and this conference discusses the sustainable methods to do so without damaging the existing environments or dwindling the populations the animals being harvested. Series: "Bren School of Environmental Science & Management" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 29507]

Writer-director Scott Frank, talks to UCSB students about getting the crime drama "A Walk Among the Tombstones" made. Frank’s other screenplays include Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven’s Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter and Marley & Me. Frank graduated from UCSB in 1982 with a BA in Film Studies. Since then he has written movies for filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Sidney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jodie Foster and Kenneth Brannagh. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29842]