Click on the link below:
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For those who take a more clinical approach to such matters, see:
http://wamc.org/post/dr-robert-levenson-university-california-berkeley-genetics-marital-bliss
Simon and Garfunkel once sang about the “Sound of Silence.” When rain forced the weekly networking event at Anderson indoors last Thursday, silence was not what was heard:
It was more like a typical deafening LA trendy restaurant. Back in Simon and Garfunkel’s day, the occupation of choice was in “plastics.” Soon it will be in hearing aids.
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| I guess the lesson is to do your marketing where you can. |
As the caption notes, these trees were known as the sophomore grove at the old Vermont Avenue campus of UCLA, now the home of LA City College.
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| I’m just a sign… |
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| …of the times. |
We noted in a prior post there would be increased attention to earthquake risks in LA around the 20th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1994 Northridge quake. One item that began to develop was an LA Times article indicating that various buildings were at risk in the LA area, even though they were thought safe when constructed. One of the buildings in Westwood is owned by UCLA, which asserted that it had been upgraded. It was also reported that a team of researchers at Berkeley had compiled a list of such buildings, but was not making the list available due to litigation concerns. The LA Times now indicates that the list will be made available. See http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-list-of-buildings-at-risk-in-earthquake-will-be-released-to-la-20140117,0,3874307.story
News accounts have focused on this chart in Gov. Brown’s recent budget proposal which shows the Latino/Hispanic state population exceeding the white-Anglo population by July. That the shift would occur sometime this decade was obvious from the 2010 Census. A news account indicates that the shift will occur in March. Clearly, putting an exact date on the shift is not really possible. But the change will definitely have occurred by the next Census. (Official state estimates for the California population at the time of the 2010 Census were way off. So interim estimates between Census years always have a significant chance of error.)
In terms of voting, the Latino/Hispanic share of likely voters was about half their share of the population in 2010 due to citizenship and voting propensities. But that, too, is changing.
A recent news account on this issue is at http://www.ibtimes.com/latinos-set-outnumber-whites-california-what-does-it-mean-economy-1543404
No, this is not about office hours. And it’s not about privacy issues raised in prior postings about public access to faculty emails and documents.
Rather, it’s about access to research. In the recent spending bill – yes, the same one mentioned in the previous post on the subway – there is direction and funding for federal agencies to establish mechanisms to make federally-funded research papers available to the public in digital format no later than 12 months after acceptance by a journal.
In most cases, researchers want their papers to be available and, if there is a roadblock, it is journal policy.
Details from Inside Higher Ed at http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/01/17/spending-bill-includes-open-access-legislation
Both the LA Times and the Daily Bruin recently carried stories about a new meteorite museum/exhibit now open in the Geology Building. Included is a chunk of the meteorite that created the well-known Meteor Crater in Arizona.
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-meteorite-museum-20140111,0,7358495.story
http://dailybruin.com/2014/01/13/ucla-officially-opens-meteorite-gallery-with-interactive-exhibit/
Yours truly hasn’t been there yet, but here is the info:
WHERE: The museum is in Room 3697 of the Geology Building on the UCLA campus in Westwood. The address is 595 Charles E. Young Dr. East.
ADMISSION: Free; map below:
Meanwhile, not to worry:
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