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L.A. will consider giving retail workers a break from hectic schedules | LAist
Most L.A. retail workers have schedules that are nothing like a nine-to-five, according to a report released last year by the UCLA Labor Center and advocacy group Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Eighty-four percent of surveyed workers said their hours change from week to week. More than three quarters said they receive their schedules with a week’s notice or less. The report found workers with unstable schedules often struggle to make ends meet and manage other priorities like child care, education or finding a second job.
How a phone-based app is aiming to help Alzheimer’s patients improve their daily lives | The Globe and Mail
Memory augmentation is nothing new. Ancient Greeks, for example, developed mnemonic devices, or techniques to organize and visualize material, to help them memorize lengthy orations, says Jesse Rissman, an assistant professor of psychology, psychiatry and biobehavioural sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. But today, with advances in neurotechnology and the ubiquity of digital devices that can readily record and store our daily activities, “there’s interest in how we might be able to use this to help people better remember their lives,” Dr. Rissman says. The use of brain implants to enhance memory is still very much at the experimental stage, being tested in animals and patients with brain injuries or illnesses, and is unlikely to become mainstream since it requires invasive surgery, he says. “But that said, the possibility of doing that is not as science fiction-y as it used to be.”
Snowpack more than doubles in a month — and it’s still storming in the Sierra | Los Angeles Times
Despite the flooding, the rain has overall been terrific news for the state’s water supply, said UCLA climate scientist Neil Berg.… Berg called this winter a “fortuitous anomaly.” “Despite February being unusually cold, we’re still warmer than average on the whole,” he said. “I don’t think this is indicative of anything larger. These are short-term weather patterns occurring in the context of significant warming trends in our climate.”
Why ‘Bones’ victory vs. Fox won’t result in copycat lawsuits | The Wrap
Tom Nunan, founder and partner of Bull’s Eye Entertainment and UCLA lecturer, agrees. “Most profit participants suspect that on some level — either trivial or substantive — studios aren’t being fair, but at the same time, few have either the means or the stamina to sue,” he said. “There’s a real chance that we’ll see a surge in lawsuits, but few will succeed, as the studios count on the complainant to either run out of money or time, in pursuing what they figure they’re owed.”
California is stuck fighting climate change with a bankrupt company | Bloomberg Businessweek
There’s also growing evidence that warming is shifting California’s precipitation patterns, delaying the autumn rains that once brought a reliable end to fire season. “Part of it is the temperature,” says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, “but it’s also a change in the seasonality of the rain.”
The age of congestion pricing may finally be upon us | Wired
“There was a time when academics loved to talk about congestion pricing and we didn’t think it would exist outside our classrooms,” says Michael Manville, who studies urban planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. “Now you see this common thread of governments feeling they need revenue and that they’ve exhausted the typical sources.”
East L.A. and Parkland activists inspire school choir | Los Angeles Times
On Friday, 85 choir students and 11 student instrumentalists will premiere for classmates the 10-movement oratorio alongside professional singers and musicians. On Saturday, the performance will open to the public. The concert will be accompanied by projections of historical images from the walkout, provided by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi’s leap of faith | Rolling Stone
“The joy won’t always be there,” says [UCLA’s Katelyn] Ohashi, who’ll graduate this spring with a gender-studies degree. “But the dedication you learn from sticking to it is a reward.”
Allen Ruppersberg show at Hammer Museum is a don’t-miss tour de force | Los Angeles Times
I’m not aware of any such critical slam aimed directly at Allen Ruppersberg for his fantastic 1974 work based on Wilde’s novel — although Conceptual art was then certainly under furious establishment attack. It’s just as well. This version, a highlight of the artist’s deeply engaging retrospective at the UCLA Hammer Museum, is a masterpiece of early Conceptual art.
Do Venezuelans actually want U.S. help? | New Republic
“The roots of what’s going on now in most countries go back to what happened at the end of the Cold War,” said Cecilia Menjívar, a UCLA researcher studying Central America and migration. And the interventions were rarely clean and precise, said Menjívar. Rather, they had a ripple effect, each coup and cascade of violence blending into the next, with instability frequently spilling over into other countries.
Indonesia’s deadly 2018 quake was a rare supershear | Asian Scientist
In the present study, researchers led by Professor Joanne V.C. Knopoff of UCLA analyzed the speed, timing and extent of the Palu earthquake that occurred in Indonesia in 2018. Using high-resolution observations of the seismic waves, along with satellite radar and optical images, they found that the earthquake propagated unusually fast, which identified it as a supershear. Only a dozen supershear quakes have been identified in the past two decades, according to Knopoff. (UCLA’s Lingsen Meng is also quoted.)
