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Although transgender workers face steep barriers, corporate America wants to hire them | Los Angeles Times
A study of data from 2015 to 2017 by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and the California Health Interview Survey found there are an estimated 80,000 transgender Californians in the workforce. But about 15% of 3,453 California transgender residents surveyed in 2015 reported being unemployed, about three times higher than the state unemployment rate, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality. About a third of them reported living in poverty.
Climate change could destroy his home in Peru. So he sued an energy company in Germany | New York Times Magazine
Ann Carlson, faculty co-director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, says that lawsuits linking fossil-fuel companies to the climate impacts of their products could set significant legal precedents. “If one of these cases succeeds,” she says, “even if all the others are dismissed, that’s a really big deal. That’s why companies will fight tooth and nail.”
How radical is too radical for 2020 Democrats | New York Times Opinion
The strategic choices facing prospective Democratic nominees are, in the view of Lynn Vavreck, a political scientist at UCLA, even more complex and subtle than those described by Jacobson. “Taking very liberal stands on contested issues,” she wrote me, “might not pose ‘significant risks’ if you think your minimum winning coalition of voters is made up of people who either share your preferences on these things, or for whom these policies are not pivotal in their vote decision.”
Massachusetts becomes 16th state to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’ | NBC News
Currently, talk therapy is the most commonly used therapy technique, but some practitioners have also combined this with “aversion treatments,” such as induced vomiting or electric shocks, according to a report by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tens of thousands of LGBTQ youth, 13 to 17, are likely to undergo conversion therapy before they turn 18, the report states.
Ingredient in whitening strips is harmful to deep layer of teeth | CNN
[UCLA’s Dr. Edmond] Hewlett cautions against generalizing results obtained in extracted teeth, as they may not represent the same environment as a person’s mouth. Because the research is in its early stages, it’s unknown to what extent the dentin is damaged, what this would mean for patients and whether the damage is permanent, he said. “The tooth-whitening products that the abstracts are talking about have been around for decades and used by millions and millions of people,” he said. “As far as the integrity of the tooth being damaged, that has not emerged.”
Why you should care about the raging battle for free access to research findings | Los Angeles Times Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Robert Kaplan) Elsevier, a company that reported $3.3 billion in revenues with a 36% profit margin in 2018, has said it is still willing to negotiate on the access issue, but the UC system has ended discussions and no longer subscribes to Elsevier publications, saying the company would agree to the open access it wanted only if the UC system was willing to pay a higher subscription rate than in the past. The dispute highlights the need for completely reinventing academic publishing to make important research accessible to all.
How an overzealous NYPD detective could undermine the Harvey Weinstein case | The Hollywood Reporter
“Anger and frustration should not lead one to be biased and to distort the facts,” says UCLA law professor Peter Johnson, a criminal defense attorney. “If he omitted information or asked people to omit information that displays his bias, it would impact the integrity of the [whole case]. People rely on his truthful statements in front of the grand jury.”
Why you should see ‘Sisters in Law,’ a play about Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Arizona Republic
“Sisters in Law,” a two-woman play getting its world-premiere production at Phoenix Theatre Company, is based on The same-titled 2015 book by Linda Hirshman. It was adapted for the stage by Jonathan Shapiro, a law professor at UCLA and a TV writer and producer who has worked on “The Blacklist,” “The Firm” and “Life.”
Sweeping bill could help California play catch-up on water contamination | Capital & Main
As this UCLA study finds, these drinking water systems “often lack the technical, financial, and managerial capacity to adequately provide clean and safe drinking water to their customers.” … As another UCLA study notes, “Individuals from disadvantaged communities are more likely to suffer negative health impacts from ingesting quality-impaired drinking water than non-disadvantaged communities.”
Gov. Newsom visits El Salvador | KCRW-FM
“I think there’s two critical reasons why this is a good visit for Governor Newsom to make,” said UCLA’s Matt Barreto. “The first is that the Salvadoran American community here in California has been growing, and is large and vibrant. This is one of the largest Latino populations here in the state of California, after Mexican Americans. And it is important for him to make inroads and build bridges, and just to better understand the Salvadoran population by making a visit there.” (Audio download)
Physicists scramble to understand the extreme crystals hiding inside giant, alien planets | Live Science
“We would expect to find crystals inside super-Earths that don’t exist in Earth, or anywhere else in nature, for that matter,” said Lars Stixrude, a theoretical mineral physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has done basic theoretical work to calculate the properties of these extreme materials. “These would be unique arrangements of the atoms that only exist at very high pressure.” These different arrangements happen, he told Live Science, because enormous pressures fundamentally change how atoms bind together.
Israeli moon lander poised for lunar touchdown Thursday | Space.com
Beresheet also has a magnetometer, provided by the University of California, Los Angeles, which will explore the region’s magnetic anomalies.
The next frontier of CAR-T therapies: off-the-shelf therapies | Medium
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, were able to turn pluripotent stem cells (which can be changed into almost any cell type) into T-cells through structures called artificial thymic organoids. These organoids (miniature, simplified versions of three-dimensional organs derived from stem cells) mimic the thymus, the organ where T-cells are made from blood stem cells in the body.
Most women need mammograms every other year starting at 50 | Reuters
“Unfortunately, we are currently unable to tell the difference between breast cancers that are over diagnosed versus the cancers that will be harmful to women, thus we recommend treatment for all,” said Dr. Joann Elmore, author of an accompanying editorial and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. “Breast cancer is more common as women age and some of the harms of screening, such as false positives, are less common in older women, thus making the benefit increase and the harms reduced as women age,” Elmore said by email.
