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UCSD-TV Premiere Broadcast with Real-Time Interactivity

Millions of Americans use their laptops while also watching their favorite primetime programs, and increasingly TV networks are inviting viewers to visit the program’s website to engage them more fully...

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Remembering Ray Bradbury

Today we remember legendary writer Ray Bradbury, who passed away this week at the age of 91. A prolific writer who helped elevate the literary reputation of the science fiction genre, Bradbury has also...

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Salman Rushdie: A Compelling Account of Life in Hiding

If you were one of many who missed out on Salman Rushdie’s appearance last month at UC San Diego’s Revelle Forum, then you’ll be happy to know you can catch it on UCSD-TV starting tonight, Ocotber 8,...

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T.C. Boyle at UC San Diego

Acclaimed author T.C. Boyle’s forthcoming work, San Miguel, is the latest entry in what The New York Times called Boyle’s “own fascinating, unpredictable, alternately hilarious and terrifying fictional...

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Larry Smarr, Gretchen Rubin Get into Health(care) & Happiness

Our presentations of “The Atlantic Meets the Pacific” forum continue into the New Year, but first we’re wrapping up 2012 with two stellar presentations from the three-day forum held at UC San Diego in...

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Inside Iraq with Hamid Al-Bayati

Ten years have passed since the United States and allies invaded Iraq. Get an eye-opening look at how those ten years have shaped Iraq’s history, presented by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC...

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Climate Justice: A Humanitarian Approach to Environmental Equality

We have all heard about climate change, but did you know that there is a fight for justice within this claim? Climate justice is more than just a demand for the stop of wrongful damage to the...

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The Psychology of War Criminals

What does it mean to be evil? When considering the evil events in history, the Holocaust remains one of the most notorious. Dr. Joel Dimsdale, professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, began his work 40...

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The Literary Imagination with Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson

We may not often think of the role imagination plays in our society and in our everyday lives. Without imagination, would the internet exist? Would Edison have invented the light bulb? Would primitive...

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This Saturday: Tinseltown Lit

Many of Hollywood’s great classic movies were screen adaptions of time-honored works of literature. This Saturday, UCSD-TV celebrates these representations of classics with Tinseltown Lit Movie Night!...

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The Elixir of Love – San Diego OperaTalk!

In this episode of OperaTalk, Dr. Nicolas Reveles discusses Gaetano Donizetti’s comedic opera “The Elixir of Love” or ”L’elisir d’amore,” in which a con artist convinces villagers that a bottle of wine...

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Engineering as a Force for the Public Good

Our series examining what it means to live the good life wraps up this week with the premiere of Engineering as a Force for the Public Good. Al Pisano, Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC...

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Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock

The Romani, not to be confused with the Romanian nation or people, are a diasporic ethnicity more widely known as “gypsies.” Throughout the world they are variously known as Rom, Roma, Romane, Cigáni...

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Story Hour in the Library

Good writing should be heard. Watch some of your favorite writers as they read selected excerpts from their works. This prose reading series is hosted by UC Berkeley English department faculty Vikram...

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Rebecca Goldstein: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Way

At the heart of the latest work from acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein lies one question: is philosophy obsolete? Goldstein recently visited the Helen Edison series for a...

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Degrees of Freedom

What does it mean to be free? Why is freedom important? How does freedom in moral and political life relate to freedom in the physical world? These questions are explored from six perspectives by some...

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Women’s Work in the World Economy: A Personal & Political Perspective

Economic growth around the world is influenced by who is in the workforce and what they, male or female, are paid. In 2003, UC Berkeley Professor Laura Tyson was asked by the World Economic Forum to...

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Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust

How to describe the burden of the state-sponsored mass murder on the generation that followed the Holocaust? Of the many revealing stories shared in this program, one from German-born historian Frank...

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Looking Beyond 2050 with Lord Martin Rees

Cosmologist, noted author, Astronomer Royal and recipient of the 2015 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, Lord Martin Rees has written and spoken extensively about the problems and...

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Are You Serious About Movies?

If you are someone that enjoys going behind the scenes with filmmakers, directors, screenwriters and others involved in the film industry, check out the amazing line-up from the Carsey-Wolf Center at...

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