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Dueling brain waves anchor or erase learning during sleep | Quanta magazine
“I had no idea that silencing slow oscillations would have a different effect than silencing delta oscillations,” said Gina Poe, a professor of integrated biology and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She did not anticipate that the differences between these waves would hold such significance, but she said the study’s results fell in line with a number of other findings. “It’s kind of like the missing puzzle piece,” she added.
SoCal’s new housing plan is going to make traffic and air pollution worse for everyone | Los Angeles Times Opinion
Abundant Housing L.A. research director Anthony Dedousis, along with UCLA urban planning professor Paavo Monkkonen, recently developed a data-driven methodology to determine just that, using current population as a base and adjusted exclusively for statutory objectives like jobs/housing balance and transit accessibility. Under this approach, Coachella would receive 1,565 units of housing while Culver City would get 5,114. Riverside would get 16,103 units, while Beverly Hills would get 7,576. Santa Monica, with its massive job base and access to rail, would get 14,155.
Analysis shows inconsistencies in how school board tracks violence | CBC
Ron Avi Astor, a professor at the University of California Los Angeles who has published more than 200 academic studies on violent behaviour in schools, says his research shows administrators are often afraid of being singled out as a “violent school” if their numbers are high or rising. “Once that’s public, principals and superintendents … may be shamed, he explained, adding in countries where there’s a tendency to shame schools “you see an underreporting — or you see no reporting.”
Trump administration sues California over cap-and-trade agreement with Canada | Los Angeles Times
“It is deeply ironic for the United States to make an argument that California is interfering with the United States’ ability to conduct foreign policy on greenhouse gas emissions when it has no foreign policy on greenhouse gas emissions,” said Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA. (Also: Axios)
The big questions: How long will I be without power? And could 2 outages this week merge together? | San Francisco Chronicle
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the winds this coming weekend could be more intense and widely felt than the ones that prompted PG&E’s shut-offs on Wednesday. “There’s going to be a real risk of public-warning fatigue,” Swain said. “This first event in Northern California, I don’t think is going to seem extreme to very many people — because in a lot of ways, it isn’t. “There’s some risk,” he said, “that when the second one comes, which is arguably going to be a little more intense, people are already a little burned out from everything that’s come before.”
Poverty rate for LGBT people in U.S. ‘much higher’ than straight, cisgender individuals | New York Daily News
Released Tuesday by UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, the research — entitled LGBT Poverty in the United States — found that about one in five LGBT people (21.6%) in the U.S. experience poverty, compared to 15.7% of straight and cisgender individuals. Among the key findings, researchers found that cisgender straight men and gay men have similar rates of poverty and their poverty rates are lower than every other group. They also saw a large disparity, within the larger LGBT community: from 12.1% of poverty rate experienced by cisgender gay men to 29.4% experienced by both transgender people and cisgender bisexual women.
‘The Kominsky Method’: Chuck Lorre’s second act | New York Times
“On ‘The Big Bang Theory’ we would be regularly talking to our astrophysicist consultant David Saltzberg at UCLA to make sure we got the math right or the science right. I didn’t need to have a consultant on this one,” said Lorre.
MOCA explores an art movement inspired by feminine and domestic traditions | Los Angeles Times
“Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence,” at the [UCLA] Hammer Museum. This is the most comprehensive retrospective of the Los Angeles painter, known for producing deeply layered, wildly ornate canvases that draw from an array of historical painting, textile and graphic traditions to address a range of social and historical conditions. In his work, he touches on queer sexuality, colonialism and the deadly ravages of the AIDS crisis — and all the in-between pieces of life that have to do with love, sex and death.
How colleges can best support first-gen students | EdSurge
“They call it first generation, but it can be a misnomer because we’re not necessarily talking literally the first. You could have an older sibling [who went to college] or whatnot. But the whole point is that these students may not have parents who have college-going knowledge specific to the U.S. Even here at UCLA, our definition is perhaps considered broad because we will say even if your parent received a degree, let’s say from the Philippines, they probably have very little knowledge about how to navigate this system. It just means those students may be disadvantaged in terms of knowing the hidden curriculum of college,” said La’Tonya Rease Miles, director of First Year Experience at UCLA.
Earth-like exoplanets may be common, study says. The odds of finding alien life just went up | NBC News
“When we started to find planets around other stars, the odds of life existing on other stars went up,” said Edward Young, a geochemist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a co-author of a paper about the new research published Oct. 18 in the journal Science. “When we started finding rocky planets, they went up again — and now we are finding evidence that the rocky planets could be similar to Earth, so now the odds have gone up yet again.”
Can a black high school guard be fired for quoting the n-word? | The Hill Opinion
And Eugene Volokh, who teaches free-speech law at UCLA School of Law, asserts, “There is no First Amendment exception for racist speech, or exclusionary speech, or ... for speech by university students that ‘created a hostile educational environment for others.’”
Can mass transit be as appealing as cars? | KCRW-FM’s “Greater LA”
“A lot of people who use transit occasionally focus on trips in the rail system, so when they think of transit in Los Angeles they’re thinking of the expanding rail system. For people who use it every day, they need to use the bus to get around, and the bus has become increasingly unreliable,” said UCLA’s Juan Matute.
