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Climate change is contributing to California’s fires | National Geographic
Crucially, that effect increases exponentially with every degree of warming, explains Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. That means that today’s hotter, climate-changed air is much more effective at drying vegetation to a crackle than it was 100 years ago. “All else being equal, in a warmer world, vegetation is going to be drier, even in a place like California where vegetation is usually dry by autumn. You can still make it drier,” says Swain. That’s exactly what scientists have watched develop over the past few decades.
Why Southern California’s wildfires are inevitable | Outside magazine
Air flowing from the high desert down to sea level is subsiding, which means that as air loses altitude, it is compressed. Compressing air causes it to warm. “If you take a piece of air located only mile above your head, and brought it down to your feet, it would wind up 30 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than when it started,” explains Robert Fovell, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, on the school’s website. “You don’t need to change the altitude of air very much to alter its temperature significantly.” Much of the Great Basin is around a mile higher in elevation than L.A.
California to train poll workers how to interact with transgender voters | The Hill
The move, the first of its kind in the country, is an attempt to better accommodate the 218,400 Californians who identify as transgender, according to data from by The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law provided in the release.
Examples of Excelencia recipients | Inside Higher Ed
Of the 166 nominations received in 2019, Excelencia chose the Center for Community College Partnerships at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Attract, Inspire, Mentor and Support Students, or AIMS2, Program at California State University Northridge; the Cal-Bridge Program at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona; and the Latino Achievers at the YMCA of Middle Tennessee as the four recipients of the Examples of Excelencia.
What happens to artists when they have to answer to online polls? | Washington Post Opinion
That’s the thesis of a forthcoming law journal article from UCLA professor Kal Raustiala and New York University professor Christopher Sprigman. They argue that the explosion of “big data” has transformed not only technical fields (manufacturing, logistics, medicine) but traditionally “artistic” ones as well, such as film, fashion, fragrances and music.
MOCA gets a $5-million gift to transform the Geffen Contemporary for more performance | Los Angeles Times
During the last year, Biesenbach said, he toured the Geffen space with artists, curators, arts administrators, theater and dance professionals, projection and sound technology specialists and others, asking them for feedback about how to revamp the space. Benjamin Millepied, founder of L.A. Dance Project, and Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, were among them.
California to start first-in-the-nation training to help transgender voters | San Francisco Chronicle
The training is “potentially groundbreaking,” said Jody Herman, a public policy scholar at UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute and an expert on transgender issues. “California often goes first on issues that are of concern to the LGBTQ community.”
Welcome to the Power Women Summit 2019 and a Hollywood bringing change | TheWrap
A UCLA study this year found that films with casts consisting of at least 51 percent people of color had the greatest return on investment at the box office. And a 2018 study found that in the period from 2014-2017, female-led films outperformed male-led films overall. “Captain Marvel” — the first female-led film in the Disney superhero franchise — made $1.12 billion earlier this year.
9 easy tips for healthy, happy skin while traveling | Self
“A common complaint I hear from patients is having irritated skin, eczema, or acne breakouts after traveling,” Carol Cheng, M.D., health sciences assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the Acne Procedure Clinic at UCLA Medical Center, tells SELF. “There are a number of reasons for fluctuations in skin while traveling, but one of them may be deviating from normal skincare routine, therefore I like to try and minimize this factor by sticking to my home routine.”
The Outfest Legacy Awards honors LGBTQ entertainment trailblazers | LA Weekly
So just who exactly will benefit from this benefit? Navarro explains, “The Legacy Awards is a fundraiser for our world renowned Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, the only program in the world exclusively dedicated to preserving LGBTQ+ film heritage for future generations. Today, the Legacy Project archive has amassed over 40,000 works and has restored 25 films.”
Maps show where PG&E may turn off power in California this weekend | San Francisco Chronicle
Daniel Swain, a climatologist at UC Los Angeles, noted the magnitude of the outage in the maps on Twitter, writing, “#PSPS outage map suggests that power cuts could extend across most of Bay Area this weekend in anticipation of extreme wind event (exception: SF proper & immediate bayshore)! This would likely be among most extensive #BayArea power outages in modern history.”
