University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)

Byron Washom, UC San Diego, and Susanna Hecht UCLA explore the challenges to scaling solutions. Series: "UC Carbon and Climate Neutrality Summit: UC Climate Solutions" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30295]

Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic joins Professors Bhaskar Sarkar and Laila Shereen Sakr of the Department of Film and Media Studies at UCSB for a discussion abput her poetic documentary Evaporating Borders that examines the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30458]

Soil really does matter! Join our distinguished panelists and learn about climate change's hottest topic - Soil! Find out how soil’s ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere may hold the key to solving the massive environmental problems caused by climate change.

Panelists include: Ryland Engelhart and Calla Rose Ostrander of Kiss the Ground; Scott Murray, organic farmer and resource conservationist; Pablo Rojas, rancher,El Mogor Ranch, Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California; Keith Pezzoli, Director of Urban Studies and Planning, UC San Diego; David Bronner, CEO, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps; Justine Owen, soil scientist, UC Berkeley; and Michelle Lerach, Founder of the Berry Good Food Foundation. Series: "UC Climate Solutions Channel " [Public Affairs] [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 30529]

Natalia Molina, professor of history and urban studies at UC San Diego, traces the ways US public health and immigration policies intersected and influenced the country’s response to Mexican immigration. Series: "Degrees of Health and Well-Being" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30180]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: The World vs. Daesh: Constructing a Contemporary Terrorist Threat with Scott Englund, UC Santa Barbara, and Contemporary Threat Roundtable led by Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30474]

Joseph Polchinski explores the battle in physics: either quantum mechanics must break down, or our understanding of spacetime must be wrong. The latest is the ‘firewall’ paradox: if quantum mechanics is to be saved, then an astronaut falling into a black hole will have an experience very different from what Einstein’s theory predicts. This has led to many new ideas that may lead to the unification of these two great theories. Series: "GRIT Talks" [Science] [Show ID: 30519]

We are visual beings, and qualities such as “insight” and “vision” describe our understanding well beyond sensory input. Light and more generally, electromagnetic radiation, has dramatically changed our knowledge of the physical world. It is also the source of the oxygen we breathe, the food we eat, and the energy that has powered the world since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, Professor of Physics, Professor Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, discusses how light will continue to expand our scientific horizons and redefine our daily lives: from the measurement of time, to biology, medicine, and combating climate change. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 30224]

Scientists describe the climate-havoc wrought on our natural world as the end of ‘stationarity’—a shift of the ecosystem so profound that it is no longer possible to extrapolate into the future from past patterns. Award-winning environmental journalist, Mark Schapiro, takes us on a journey to the tension points where these shifts are vividly underway. Series: "Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30274]

Professors Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker of the UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies, discuss The Look of Silence, a groundbreaking documentary on trauma by Joshua Oppenheimer. The film was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30457]

Arch Getty explores the intriguing details surrounding Lenin’s body, which was embalmed shortly after his death in 1924 and has been on public display ever since in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square. Getty is a Distinguished Professor in the UCLA Department of History.

Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30567]