University of California Video Podcasts (Video)

Art is everywhere. From large cultural institutions to pop up street art, places like San Diego are bursting with creative, inspiring art that reflects the diversity of the region. In this panel discussion, host Dean Nelson talks with three San Diego cultural artists - Leah Goodwin, Susanna Peredo Swap and Adrian Arancibia - about where to find the art that is happening around San Diego and the challenges local artists face. [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 38942]

Join esteemed experts to delve into solutions for water scarcity, climate challenges, and sustainable resource management. Michelle Ciccarelli Lerach, Berry Good Food Foundation's founder, moderate a discussion with BJ Kjaer, Solar Rain Watery's CEO; Sarah Livia Szekely Brightwood, President of Rancho La Puerta; Dr. Juana Claudia Leyva Aguilera from Universidad Autonoma de Baja CA; Luis Salgado of Watershed Management Group; and Alejandro Carrillo, owner of Las Damas Cattle Ranch. Explore responsible land, water, and natural resource practices, innovative methods, and technologies. An essential dialogue for a resilient future. Series: "Future Thought Leaders" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 39060]

Big cities create big opportunities for innovation in design and planning that transform daily life and shapes the future. Their complexity and scale also create unique challenges for integrating design and planning, both in terms of processes and outcomes. In this program, three urbanists - Gil Kelley, Peter Park and John Rahaim - explore what is good public design and how it impacts our neighborhoods.

The Big City Design + Planning Symposium is co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Design Lab. Series: "Design at Large" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 39157]

UC Santa Cruz developed a computational tool known as UShER that enables real-time SARS-CoV-2 tracking and helps researchers identify new lineages of the virus. The easy-to-use tool and online server creates an evolutionary tree that helps scientists understand genomic mutations by creating new branches, showing the relationships between virus samples and the order in which mutations happened along various lineages as the virus evolves. Series: "UC Santa Cruz News" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39241]

Del Zamora (writer, director, and producer) joins moderator Ben Olguín (English, UCSB) in a post-screening discussion of The Last Brown Beret, an adaptation of a play by Alfredo Ramos that explores Chicanx activism and history in Los Angeles. Together, they discuss the impact of the civil rights movement that arose in the 1960s and the connections between the Brown Berets, the Black Panther Party, and the American Indian Movement, and its influence on the film. Zamora also details the development of the film, the challenges that Latinx filmmakers face, and storytelling choices in the film’s structure and characterization. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39051]

UC Berkeley engineers have created a simple and low-cost new arsenic treatment system to help low-income communities access safer water.

In many areas throughout California, the groundwater is tainted with dangerous levels of arsenic, a highly carcinogenic element that can seep into the water table from deposits in the soil and bedrock. While cities and larger municipalities can afford to remove arsenic from their water, many people living in small and rural communities are forced to choose between drinking contaminated tap water or purchasing bottled water — and those with private wells may not even know that their water is unsafe.

(Video: Roxanne Makasdjian, Alan Toth, Adam Lau)

Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39226]

From the La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2022 series, music director Inon Barnatan creates an ambitious program, evocatively titled “Under the Influence,” exploring the muses that seduced and inspired some of the greatest composers in musical history. This program features Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor and Brahms' Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 39122]

TecHype is a groundbreaking series that cuts through the hype around emerging technologies to get to what matters. Each episode debunks misunderstandings around emerging tech, provides insight into benefits and risks, and identifies technical and policy strategies to harness the benefits while mitigating the risks of emerging technologies. This episode of TecHype features Prof. Hany Farid from UC Berkeley, a world-renowned expert in the analysis of digitally manipulated images. We take a deep dive into determining what a 'deepfake’ is and explore how these AI-generated images, videos, and audio can be used for both amusing and alarming purposes.

Farid highlights the increasing prevalence of deepfakes and their impact on society. From revolutionizing the entertainment industry, bolstering creativity, and championing advocacy campaigns to their use in impersonating public figures in ways that manipulate elections or personal contacts to commit fraud. The episode concludes with a discussion of targeted strategies that can be pursued to keep you safe from harmful deepfakes, such as digital watermarking and detection tools. Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 39244]

The Visualizing Abolition Initiative seeks to change the narrative linking prisons to justice, contributing instead to the unfolding collective story and alternative imagining underway to create a future free of prisons. The initiative is a collaborative effort with artists, scholars, poets, lawyers and activists, and through public exhibitions and educational genres. Series: "UC Santa Cruz News" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 39242]

Researchers deployed a fleet of 100 semi-autonomous vehicles to test whether a new AI-powered cruise control system can help smooth the flow of traffic and improve fuel economy.

In a massive traffic experiment, scientists tested whether introducing just a few AI-equipped vehicles to the road can help ease “phantom” jams caused by human behavior and reduce fuel consumption for everyone.

(Video: Roxanne Makasdjian, Alan Toth, and CIRCLES Consortium

Music: Dyalla - Organic Guitar House)

Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 39225]